TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Toward that end, she has been more focused of late on startups that combine crypto with gaming. YGG lends players the money to buy the Axies and other digital assets to start the game, so they can start earning money. AS: I think it was crypto Twitter, which honestly is where we’re finding a lot of our gaming investments.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s once again “game on” for gaming startups. After several slow quarters , funding to companies in the gaming space has picked up a bit this year, driven by a resurgence in early-stage dealmaking and optimism around the ability of small studios to churn out hits. Certainly revenue is trending higher. The fund was part of a $7.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

Women-led mobile gaming startup Robin Games raised funding around the idea of carving out a new niche in the market of “lifestyle gaming.” In addition, the company is working with real-life furniture brands to make the items in its game shoppable in real life. Image Credits: Robin Games.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Metafy’s model is catching on with its market. Instead, the company is pursuing games with strong niche followings, what Fabian described as “vibrant, loyal communities.” ” Like Super Smash Brothers, its leading game today in terms of GMV generated. That’s quick. So what does its $5.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

The surge of interest in e-sports, online fantasy leagues and more extensive online financial infrastructure have made the concept of real-money gaming more popular among consumers and games developers. million funding to continue developing its platform to work in a wider set of markets (its currently available in 37 U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

If you’ve ever played free-to-play video games on your phone, you may have seen an advert or two, including mini-games and other content with variable quality and relevance. An enormous market [Slide 7] That’s a huge TAM. The $72 billion per year TAM is hugely naive, bordering on absurd.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Yet more funding is finding its way to Istanbul’s gaming startups. Today, Dream Games — the casual games developer behind the hit game Royal Match — is announcing a $255 million Series C that values the startup at $2.75 Royal Match is currently one of the highest grossing mobile games on the market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

When you play a game, how do you play it? Usually, they are games with a physical form, a console or an app. Artie is gearing up to shake up the games industry with another option, bringing high-end games back to the browser. The company refers to it as “over-the-top game streaming.” “The Among Us on your phone?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Since last year, we’ve been tracking the growing list of capitalists who got into the SPAC game. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. With our portfolio now maturing to the stage at which many are considering the public markets, we view SPACs as a natural next step in the evolution of our platform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion millennials and Gen Zers, mobile gaming has never really picked up, despite the continent witnessing rapid economic growth and smartphone adoption. The company started as a game studio, developing and launching its own mobile games.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Microsoft has held conversations to invest in the Indian play-to-earn gaming platform Zupee in recent weeks and proposed to potentially lead a funding round of over $100 million, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest in a series of bets from the cloud services giant to expand its business in the key overseas market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Because some of the most profitable NFTs are produced by celebrities with teams , it makes sense that music corporations, fashion brands and designers are venturing into the NFT market as well. Real-life fashion brands use NFTs for marketing in virtual worlds like Minecraft , plus several Atari and Microsoft video games.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The web3 gaming industry is one of the few sectors seemingly unaffected by current crypto market conditions, with capital continuing to pool into the space – and some industry players say it’s for good reason. The current market environment is funny,” Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands , said to TechCrunch. In May, over 1.15

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Ace Games , a Turkish mobile gaming company founded by a former Peak Games co-founder, has raised a $7 million seed funding round led by Actera Group. Former gaming entrepreneurs Kristian Segerstrale, Alexis Bonte and Kaan Gunay also participated. 6 investors on 2021’s mobile gaming trends and opportunities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. Mehta said that until very recently there simply wasn’t the technology and the market wasn’t ready.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. The startup also plans to expand its team in preparation for the commercialization of AXIS later this year to cater to the rapidly growing market of gamers, tech adopters, content creators and fitness enthusiasts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. Also, cyber insurance providers are pushing companies to up their security game, and that’s mostly a good thing. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. million users.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This February, Africa and emerging market-focused Nestcoin raised a pre-seed round to build, operate and invest in its web3 applications, including crypto content platform Breach Club and gaming guild Metaverse Magna (MVM). MVM’s seed sale token ensures opportunities for millions of gamers in these emerging markets.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Reporter Dominic-Madori Davis moderated a discussion with Yin, Mike Asem (founding partner of M25), and Accel partner Rich Wong that elicited suggestions for early-stage founders who don’t live in the 415 area code and spilled the tea about “the emerging markets on their radars.”. 5 tips for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Social gaming platform Rec Room has scored some new funding as it aims to bring its once VR-centric world to every major gaming platform out there. The platform has been around for years serving as a social hub and gaming platform for virtual reality users. They’ve raised just shy of $50 million to date.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Any tech that has the potential for such broad impact also has a massive potential market, and that means a certain class of investors are willing to be in it for the long haul. wearable last year, the path to market had been twice as long as Berdichevsky had expected. “Hire people to do the technical stuff.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Carry1st , a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). A couple of prominent individual investors, including Nas and the founders of Chipper Cash , Sky Mavis and Yield Guild Games, took part.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. But first… what is a game engine, exactly? Godot editor demo.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Truist — one of the nation’s largest financial institutions — has acquired Long Game , a 12-person fintech startup that has raised over $20 million in venture capital, executives have told TechCrunch exclusively. It’s a true game, as we are really using game dynamics to drive financial literacy.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Metafy , a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. Since that funding event, Metafy acquired rival games coaching platform GamersRdy, and the company said coaches using its service grossed over $1 million last year. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Kabam , the gaming company that has developed mobile games in partnership with entertainment brands including Disney, Marvel and Universal, has laid off about 7% — around 35 people — of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned from sources and confirmed with the company over email. The company has a headcount of over 500 employees.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The gaming company Roblox announced today that it had confidentially filed paperwork with the SEC to make its public debut. In February, the company, which operates a free-to-play gaming empire with tens of million of users, was valued at $4 billion after a Series G funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 5, 2024

When it comes to raising money, gaming startups aren’t seeing a lot of play. Per Crunchbase data, seed- through growth-stage investment in companies tied to the gaming industry hit a multiyear low last year. Not an industry in decline Although startup funding nosedived, the broader gaming industry didn’t have a particularly bad year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

If you follow tech press, you’ve probably noticed more outlets covering the blockchain-based, play-to-earn trend, wherein individuals playing crypto-powered games can ostensibly earn a living off their gaming skills if they earn assets within the game or tokens that they can then sell for “real” money.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

You’d be hard pressed to find a game that doesn’t include some form of microtransactions these days, especially in mobile games. It just makes sense for gaming companies — an immensely lucrative source of revenue, the microtransactions market was worth at $60 billion in 2021, and projected to hit $106 billion by 2026.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

It is a Windows instance, which means you can install whatever you want — games, photo editing software, Microsoft Office, you name it. But the service works particularly well for gamers, as everything has been optimized for video games, from latency, 4:4:4 color support and gamepad compatibility to specifications. The maximum is 2TB.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

And 1047 Games is making the most of the heat generated by Splitgate , its first game and a now a breakout success. Co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx credited a dedicated community and, as he described it, “taking a Silicon Valley approach to running a game business.” Image Credits: 1047 Games.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

As an interactive storytelling platform, Dorian is building a new way for writers to make money off of their fiction by turning their tales into choose-your-own-adventure mobile games. Before that, she spent seven years at G5 Games, where she was Head of Business Development & Licensing. “I It didn’t work either.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Darshan Somashekar co-founded drop.io (acquired by Facebook), Imagine Easy Solutions (acquired by Chegg) and is currently co-founder of gaming platform Solitaired and a venture partner at TMV. Which is why what I’m about to say might be surprising: I’m leaving edtech for the world of gaming with my new company, Solitaired. Contributor.

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