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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). The world is going mobile. I’ll explain in detail below.

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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

Mobile gaming is by far the most dominant category. At Remagine Ventures we invested in Sneaky Panda , a mobile gaming studio founded by serial gaming entrepreneurs pioneering a new genre – Luck Puzzler. . Mobile games earned $41.2bn globally during H1 2022. While mobile game revenue was down 6.6% There are 3.07

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Take Five: The Metaverse

VC Cafe

Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. 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. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO. Final thoughts.

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VCs Bet on Mobile App Development

Business Plan Blog

Mobile is the Rage & VCs are Taking Note. Corporations from banks to fast food to software firms are turning to mobile app developers to build mobile app devices for their customers. Since the beginning of 2012, mobile app development startups have raised $262M across 36 deals. M&A Spurring Growth.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. A corporate investor can provide diversity on the Board as someone who thinks differently from independent VCs. Mari Holds a B.A. Some corporate funds lead rounds and take board seats, others don’t.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures.