Funding Invest Riot Games 
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2020
Los Angeles-based Riot Games is looking to help patch up rocky race relationships in the United States, saying over the weekend that it will invest $10M in minority-owned game studios, in addition to providing $1M to the Innocence Project and the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), via is Social Impact Fund.
socalTECH
JUNE 16, 2011
Los Angeles-based Gamzee , a developer of HTML5 and mobile/social games, announced Thursday that it has raised $1M in a seed round of funding. Paul Ksller of Bristol Investment Fund joins the firm's board as part of the funding.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit. That used to be called A-round investing. of the fund.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 20, 2021
A new, early-stage venture firm, Patron--which has one of its General Partners based in Los Angeles--said on Tuesday that it has raised $90M in a new venture capital fund. Yeh and Cho said that they have served across such companies as Riot Games, FirstMark Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” Another firm funded them. The story is Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy and the amazing team that supports them.
socalTECH
APRIL 12, 2011
Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. Those are two big gaming companies.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA. Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA.
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