TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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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

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

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. General Catalyst — one of the group of VCs out of the U.S.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

When I talk with business leaders, I often hear metaverse as a marketing focus or an innovation one; usually, it’s not comprehensive and strategically integrated with the business. What about the game-changing technologies? I think the verdict is still out on what the big game-changing technologies are going to be.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Cities like Boulder, Detroit and Austin had emerging tech ecosystems long before the pandemic forced VCs to start taking pitches via Zoom, and social media has leveled the playing field when it comes to networking and PR. 5 tips for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market. 5 tips for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market.

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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

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

APRIL 1, 2022

Gaming: With the huge Axie Infinity hack making headlines , we talked about the matter and how other startups are tinkering with the play-to-earn market. And we closed with the topic of social networks , what Elon Musk is up to and how Facebook managed to confirm everyone’s suspicions about its ethics.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

DJ Gabeau, one of Snapchat Stories’ earliest engineers and founder of web3 social network Primitives , told TechCrunch that he thinks NFTs can be a genuinely enjoyable way for people to connect with one another digitally and make memories. Users don’t have to go through multiple steps to claim the assets, he added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

As he watched first overall draft pick Cam Newton warm up before a game in 2011, dancing to music, Fox couldn’t help but wonder what the future NFL MVP was listening to — and he bet that the crowd of 85,000 fans were curious too. As streaming services like Spotify grow, social listening apps like Earbuds are emerging too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Achieving product-market fit (PMF) arguably ranks as both the No. During his session, aptly named “How to Find Product-Market Fit,” Thacker will share the fundamentals, explain the processes involved and address the challenges. Got product-market fit? 1 strategic objective and the biggest challenge for early-stage founders.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the livestreaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised around $1 million to date. CEO Pim de Witte, as to his company’s interest in Rawa. That technology is now coming to Medal.tv.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re building the apps that they want to use. It’s like a link-in-bio service, but with a social element that encourages young creatives to connect, collaborate and develop friendships. Image Credits: Tagg. People are kind of put into a box.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 One way to describe Revel is a cross between Instagram and Robinhood, wrapped in social game economics,” Sideman said. Instagram is known as a social media platform while Robinhood is known as an investing and trading platform. (As

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Yahaha , a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative $50 million in funding ahead of its alpha launch in April. And that’s where Yahaha comes in.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam , launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral. “Transactions on these blockchains can be more efficient than the credit card networks we use to take payments in most of our games now,” wrote Stacey.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2022

Zenly has always felt like the small social app that could become the next big thing. But it turns it Zenly is quietly becoming a social giant without anyone paying much attention — at least until now. This isn’t a social network. Zenly still wants to make the definitive social maps app. This isn’t another messaging app.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Breef , a platform that allows brands to manage and service marketing agency projects, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A round (an undisclosed portion of which was debt) led by Greycroft with participation from BDMI, UTA.VC, Afterpay’s Touch Ventures and UC Berkeley’s The House Fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living. Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

Jamie Viggiano is the chief marketing officer at Fuel Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses. “Who should my first marketing hire be?” The nature of the marketing function has expanded significantly over the past two decades.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

In March 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the company pivoted from B2C to B2B and used the technology rails it had built to create the e-commerce marketing platform that Givz is today. We are creating a new marketing category and generating the largest sustainable charitable giving platform in the process,” he told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In a move to shore up institutional support in what’s likely to be it’s last fundraising as a private company, the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming behemoth Scopely has raised $340 million in its latest eye-popping round of funding. ” LA-based gaming studio Scopely raises $200M at a $1.7B valuation. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Africa’s cryptocurrency market grew by 1,200% to $105.6 Nestcoin’s products cut across Decentralized Finance (DeFi), media, digital art and gaming. . million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

According to Grand View Research, the global sports betting market is expected to grow to $182.12 So we are seeing a number of startups throng around this market. Plus, Super Bowl ads boosted crypto app downloads by 279%, so there is a burgeoning market. billion in revenue by 2030, up from $76.75 billion last year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Chums is a social shopping service that helps friends suggest products to their pals. It made its way to market three weeks ago, or as Elion explained, right before his company went out fundraising. It wants to reach product-market fit with a half-dozen staff. The list includes Runway , Mono , Pangea and Flux.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

You’ll still need to figure out how to acquire customers, find the best talent, build an incredible product, assemble a great advisory board and get to product-market fit.”. These founders landed early checks by being savvy about social media. (L-R) ” These founders landed early checks by being savvy about social media.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

On cloud 9 : Romain chronicles how pairing up the Logitech G Cloud with cloud computing service Shadow not only made for a better gaming experience, but was also “a match made in cloud gaming heaven.”. The TechCrunch Top 3. If you like your locks virtual… : Then Level has something you will want to see.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Stefan Heinrich Henriquez, a former head of Global Marketing at TikTok and chief marketing officer at Cameo, is one of them. I think Roblox is doing that now with games, and Canva is doing that with design tools.”. last summer. And what I learned since Musical.ly

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Metromile , the pay-per-mile auto insurer that earlier this year laid off a third of its staff due to economic uncertainties caused by COVID-19, is taking the SPAC path to the public markets. “The option to pay for insurance by the mile is a game changer and why I’m incredibly excited about Metromile’s future!”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Roblox is now one of the world’s most valuable private companies in the world after a monster Series H raise brings the social gaming platform a stratospheric $29.5 Today, the company also announced that it plans to enter the public markets via a direct listing. How Roblox avoided the gaming graveyard and grew into a $2.5B

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

With the promise of an interconnected virtual world coming into focus and user-crafted gaming content exploding, Infinite Canvas is looking to apply to the metaverse lessons learned in the esports boom. We are just at the beginning of seeing what the metaverse market opportunity can be,” said Greenfield. million subscribers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The holiday shopping season is coming: How are growth marketers preparing? With only three weeks left to the start of the holiday shopping season, Miranda Halpern checked in with several growth marketers to find out how they’re advising their clients to prepare for supply chain disruptions. Bring on the low-cost NFTs.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2024

Digital marketing strategies require several alternatives to optimize their effectiveness. Social Media Marketing Any company that isn’t using social media is missing out on a ton of revenue. Starting a social media marketing campaign is easy, with a lot less resources required than other methods.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Journalists don’t want to hear opinions from your head of marketing or product — they want to hear from the founders. What unique opinions do they have about the market? This is especially important if you are a small startup that not many people know about. What problems are they solving? The founder picks their favorite.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mammoth, a recently launched Mastodon app that’s trying to make it easier on users who want to join the decentralized social web, has a notable financial backer. There, he ran marketing and business affairs and worked on branding and the international launch. 1 game on the App Store, but not under Disney’s branding.

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