Startup Speedrun
a16z Games announces Speedrun 2024 with $75 million investment pool
Startups are encouraged to enter for the next event starting in January
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Andreessen Horowitz
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Andreessen Horowitz is a $4 billion venture capital firm, founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. The company is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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Investment
African publisher Carry1st reports $27m funding round led by Bitkraft Ventures
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600 Million Reasons
Andreessen Horowitz launches $600 million games VC fund
GAMES FUND ONE established to invest in games infrastructure and technologies as “key building blocks” of the metaverse
Garena Of Africa
Carry1st raises $20 million to create the "Garena of Africa"
Will expand into the co-development of mobile games
Funding The Future
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Will scale its user-generated content platform CurseForge
Block On
Mobile game devs part of blockchain gaming platform Forte's $725 million raise
Sea Capital co-led the round
Boom Times
Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis raises $152 million on a $3 billion valuation
Andreessen Horowitz leads the round
Go With The Flow
Game blockchain outfit Dapper Labs raises $250 million on a $7.6 billion valuation
Over 600 projects building on Flow blockchain
Cross-play Crusade
Elodie Games raises $32.5 million for co-op, cross-platform titles
Unannounced title in pre-alpha testing phase
Firing Up
Play-to-earn gaming community Yield Guild raises $4.6 million
A16z and former MZ CEO Gabe Leydon invest
Crossing The Beams
Rogue Games takes Vainglory as Super Evil raises $10.5 million for cloud game Project Spellfire
Funding was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz
Evolving
Mino Games closes $2.2 million funding round and launches casual-core sequel Mino Monsters 2
All systems go again