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Griffin Gaming Partners Backs Mobile Game Developer Spyke

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Santa Monica-based venture investment firm Griffin Gaming Partners is the lead investor in Turkish mobile gaming developer Spyke, Spyke said on monday. According to Spyke, it raised $55M in its seed funding round from Griffin Gaming Partners. Spyke's team comes from Peak Games, Zynga and Riot Games.

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Gamzee Gets Seed Funding

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Los Angeles-based Gamzee , a developer of HTML5 and mobile/social games, announced Thursday that it has raised $1M in a seed round of funding.

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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

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It's super interesting, in particular, for Southern California, where Blizzard and Riot Games have been really helping to lead that charge, both locally and internationally. Blizzard has been one of the founders of e-sports, an created many of the early e-sports games, and Riot Games is well known for League of Legends.

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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

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Personally, my work has shifted 80 percent to my mobile device for work communication, text, email and reading. We're already seeing strong engineers and founders from Snap, Riot Games, Musically and others launch their new startups in LA. I'm fascinated by the creator economy on Twitch, Youtube, and new streaming platforms.

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LA TECH SUMMIT Celebrates Los Angeles’s Phenomenal Growth

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Speakers included Mayor Eric Garcetti , Snapchat influencer Jake Paul (fresh off his 60 Minutes appearance), Loot Crate cofounder Chris Davis (whose company just topped the Inc 5000), and early Snapchat & Riot Games / SF-based investor Peter Lasky. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Brandon Beck – Riot Games. StarCraft 2 might be the most played eSport currently, but Riot Games’ “League of Legends” is garnering prize pools in the millions. They raised some money, stole some guys from Blizzard, and released the game for free. Here are 10 people I think will be leading the charge.