socalTECH
MAY 23, 2019
Los Angeles-based videogame publisher Riot Games has created a brand new organization to govern college esports, called the Riot Scholastic Association of America (RSAA). According to Riot Games, the new organization will be the governing body for Riot's college and high school esports activity.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 11, 2020
Well, now those development studios can turn to Pragma , which is building the back-end toolkit for gaming companies so their developers can focus on what they do best — making games. In the game industry, a game can stay in beta for years as developers work out the kinks. The company raised $4.2
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socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2018
The startup is aiming at the athletic training and recovery market, with a new sports tape which incorporates supplements. Riot Games). NI0 is led by Braven Greenelsh, and says it is currently in another seed funding effort.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 13, 2016
Santa Monica-based Tongal , the crowdsourced, marketing and advertising content firm led by Rob Salvatore, has been ramping up hiring, saying today that it has added a significant number of people this month--including three executives to its senior leadership team.
socalTECH
MAY 29, 2014
Nix Hydra said the new funding round will go to further develop its Egg Baby franchise, and expand into international markets. The company says the new round brings its total raised to $5.6M, including an earlier angel round from such investors as Matt Britton (MRY), Vinny Linghma (Gyft), and Brad Schwartz (Riot Games).
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.” Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued?
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