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The Changing Venture Landscape

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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? How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges?

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March Capital Backs Video Game Developer Wavedash Games

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The funding round also included Lowercase Capital, Advancit Capital, CourtsideVC, Machine Shop Ventures, Luma Labs, and Cherrytree VC. According to Wavedash, the new funding will go to grow its team and complete the development of its game, Platform Fighter. Wavedash is based in Oakland. READ MORE>>.

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Battlefy Finds $1.3M

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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 The company--now based in Vancouver, BC--helps organizers of professional video game tournaments and leagues.

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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

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Here, we have the thoughts of Clinton Foy , General Partner and Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscut.vc). Venture Capital is a Long Term Game. We've always known how important it is as VCs to invest in founders. I'm fascinated by the creator economy on Twitch, Youtube, and new streaming platforms.

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

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To get some insight into the growing world and business of e-sports, we caught up with Clinton Foy , a local venture capital investor at Crosscut Ventures in Los Angeles. 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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Delane Parnell’s plan to conquer amateur esports

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Los Angeles-based PlayVS (pronounced “play versus”) wants to become the dominant platform for amateur esports, starting at the high school level. Starting at 21, I worked at a venture capital firm called IncWell based in Birmingham, Michigan then joined a startup called Rocket Fiber.

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

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It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. And this is true. LA has only just begun.