Funding Riot Games Venture Capital 
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges?
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FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. 10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.”
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socalTECH
JANUARY 15, 2014
in seed funding from Deep Fork Capital, William Morris Endeavor, former Riot Games Chairman Jarl Mohn, Dennis Phelps (IVP), Social Starts, BDC Ventures, and Keith Boesky. The company--now based in Vancouver, BC--helps organizers of professional video game tournaments and leagues.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Los Angeles-based employee wellness and artificial intelligence (AI) software developer Three Good announced that it has raised a seed funding round. in that funding. The company says it is raising $2.5M The company says it is using both artificial intelligence and traditional psychology to help companies beat employee burnout.
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.
socalTECH
MAY 2, 2017
Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital Partners is the lead investor in video game developer Wavedash Games , which announced a $6M Series A funding round on Tuesday morning. According to Wavedash, the new funding will go to grow its team and complete the development of its game, Platform Fighter.
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MARCH 6, 2017
It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. But this post is about the broader context of LA. And this is true.
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