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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

VC Cafe

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? To reduce the impact of dilution, the expectation is that startup valuation should more or less double between the pre-seed to the seed, and seed to series A (ideally backed by reasonable traction/ revenue multiples). A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”?

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Impressions from Pocket Gamer Connects in London

VC Cafe

One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. Gaming is a sector that traditionally struggled to attract venture capital investment in the early days, as mentioned by Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins in the Gamecraft podcast. billion in 2022.

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Deep Fake Love & AI Girlfriends

Start Up Blog

The market size is over $US10 billion globally in revenue. The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. Many of these are funded by respected venture capital firms such as AZ16.