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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

And a record-breaking $7 billion was invested through venture capitalists and strategic investors in private gaming companies during the first half with 11 large rounds that exceeded $100 million. Source: Minecraft blog. Private financing market continued to see strong deal activity with $3.6B

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Take Five: The Metaverse

VC Cafe

Inworld AI – readers of this blog would have already heard about Dall-E, the AI for creating stunning visual art from text input. The H1 2022 gaming activity report by Investgame shows who are the top 15 strategic investors in the gaming space. The top 15 strategic investors in gaming. Final thoughts.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. On the flip side, simply taking strategic investor capital because it’s there or it’s easier or cheaper than other capital rarely works out well for startups.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Note: my blog has moved to www.seeingbothsides.com. We typically advise our portfolio companies to avoid taking on strategic investors at an early stage for this very reason. Also, check out www.jeffbussgang.com to see my new book, Entering StartUpLand, which ships on October 10th. Fuzzy Governance.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Note: my blog has moved to www.seeingbothsides.com. We typically advise our portfolio companies to avoid taking on strategic investors at an early stage for this very reason. Also, check out www.jeffbussgang.com to see my new book, Entering StartUpLand, which ships on October 10th. Fuzzy Governance.

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Quick Thoughts on Term Sheets and LOIs

Rob Go

This is also a risk in financing rounds with investors that are unknown (foreign investors, groups that are starting to do early stage investing for the first time, unusual strategic investors, etc). Second, don’t be too quick to get to the LOI.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures.