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Carbonated Games Finds $8.5M

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The company says its founders are from Zynga, Electronic Arts and Blizzard, and that it was founded in 2015. Carbonated focuses on developing "highly competitive" games for mobile devices, which are more in line with the hard core games found on consoles and PCs, rather than the more usual casual gaming market. READ MORE>>.

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Greycroft, WndrCo Back Glow For Podcast Subscriptions

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in a seed funding round, which came from Greycroft, WndrCo, Norwest Venture Partners, PSL Ventures, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund as well as rap artist Nas and Ken Moss, the CTO of Electronic Arts. According to Glow Technologies , it has raised $2.3M

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IVP: We Love LA, So We Invested In Snapchat

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In its post, giving a number of its reasons for the investment, IVP said that "We Love LA", citing the success of LA''s JAMDAT Mobile , the mobile gaming firm which went public and was eventually acquired by Electronic Arts--which was founded by Mitch Lasky, who sits on Snapchat''s board and is a partner at Benchmark. READ MORE>>.

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Loop Media Unveils Streaming Media Service, Backed By $10M In Funding

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Loop Media was co-founded by Jon Niermann, CEO (former President, Electronic Arts Asia and Managing Director, Walt Disney International Asia); Shawn Driscoll, Head of Music Industry Relations (former Executive Producer at Legends Studios in Burbank); and Philipp Pieper (current CEO, Swarm Fund, former Founder, Proximic).

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Maestro nets $15 million for its interactive commerce, community and engagement tools for livestreams

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We are very excited by Maestro’s potential to be a fundamental driver in the growth of the creator economy,” said Joshua Siegel, General Partner, Acronym Venture Capital. . “Maestro… started off with the content and now we’re adding membership and community management and ticketing and all that stuff,” said Evans. .

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LA-based gaming studio Scopely raises $200 million at a $1.4 billion valuation

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. “What the company allows you to do is look at engagement and alter a game midstream to tailor the experience,” says Ravi Viswanathan, the founder and managing partner of NewView Capital.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” If you want to be the marketing person or you want to be perceived as a businessperson or a VC or technical person or whatever you want to be perceived, people will always define you.

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