TechCrunch LA

MARCH 11, 2020

These days, most of the games developed need to be social, multi-platform and extensible, but there are only a few developers with the expertise to bring those toolsets to the profusion of new games that crop up every year. Games are taking five to 10 years to launch out of beta,” Chen said. . The company raised $4.2

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

According to Wavedash, the new funding will go to grow its team and complete the development of its game, Platform Fighter. The company's founders previously were at EA, TinyCo, and Riot Games. Wavedash is based in Oakland. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2014

Battlefy , a startup developing an online platform for managing e-sports tournaments, leagues, and content--which is a graduate of the Amplify LA accelerator--said this week that it has raised $1.3M

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2015

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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

This year, we focused on diversifying and strengthening our team by recruiting Maureen Klewicki as an investor and senior associate, and Nick Kim as our head of platform. Now, we're investing in our own team, firm, and platform so we can further support those founders. Liquidity and transfer of wealth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We try to cap our A-funds at around $300 million so we retain the discipline to invest early and small while building our Growth Platform separately to do late stage deals (we now have > $300 million in Growth AUM). In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based PlayVS (pronounced “play versus”) wants to become the dominant platform for amateur esports, starting at the high school level. This is like talking about the NBA and the value of its sponsorships and broadcast rights as if that is the entirety of the basketball market in the US.

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