Esports revenues are expected to exceed a billion dollars per year for the first time and expected to increase rapidly as the industry continues to attract players, teams, and fans at an explosive pace. Competitive video gaming is a serious business with lucrative rewards for those that are the most skilled. Seeking a way to finetune their gaming skills, Amine Issa and his cofounders founded Mobalytics, the gaming analytics platform for competitive gamers to master their trade through player development, strategy, and tracking. Issa shares some insight on the state of the esports industry, the company’s future plans, and recent round of funding from investors that include HP Tech Ventures, General Catalyst, GGV Capital, RRE Ventures, Axiomatic, and T1 Esports.
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The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/23/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 7/23/2020 featuring funding details for Religion of Sports, Arrive Outdoors, and much more.
Ready, Set, Food! Raises $3M For a Proactive Approach to Reducing Food Allergies
Witnessing the stress and worry severe food allergies caused young children and their parents, Daniel Zakowski founded Ready, Set, Food! a daily supplement that protects infants from developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies. The company just closed $3M in funding from Danone Manifesto Ventures, Mark Cuban, AF Ventures (formerly AccelFoods), and other investors. Zakowski shares more about how the company is making food allergies preventable, the company’s giving partnership with Cuban, and much more…
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/22/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 7/22/2020 featuring funding details for Mobalytics, WAVE.tv, and much more.
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/21/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 7/21/2020 featuring funding details for Arrow App and much more.
Pipe Raises $10M to Give SaaS Startups What They Need Most – Cash Flow
Investors love SaaS companies because of the recurring revenue. But SaaS companies often have to give up growth when faced with monthly and quarterly subscriptions that cause less signup friction versus annual upfront fees. Pipe is the non-dilutive financing solution for these to normalize their cash flows. Pipe is a marketplace that connects SaaS companies to investors that are looking to invest in these types of factoring arrangements. Investors receive reliable cash flows and companies receive the cash they need quickly to fuel their growth. Win/Win. We caught up with CEO and Cofounder Harry Hurst to learn more about Pipe, the Saas landscape, and the company’s recent Seed extension round.
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/20/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 7/20/2020 featuring funding details for Ready, Set, Food!, , and much more.
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/20/20
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup fundings for the week ending 7/18/20 featuring funding details for Homee, Crisp, Skydio, and much much more.
Carbonated Games Raises $8.5M To Bring Hardcore Competitive Gaming to Mobile Devices
Once a gamer, always a gamer – at least that’s what we gathered from our interview with industry veteran and cofounder, Travis Boatman, of Carbonated Games, the new game studio that designs intense, competitive games for mobile devices. Carbonated Games creates experiences for gamers that have a busy life but still miss the hardcore, competitive games they used to play on console and PC, taking a modern approach to these games by designing ultra-competitive, player vs. player (PVP) games that are meant to be played on mobile devices, abandoning the need for additional hardware. Boatman shares more about the team behind the studio, the company’s first title, MadWorld, and the company’s recent funding round led by by Andreessen Horowitz, Golden Ventures, and BITKFAFT Ventures.
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/16/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 7/16/2020 featuring funding details for Openpath, Carbonated Games, and much more.
Meet the 10 Startups in Techstars 2020 LA Class
An exclusive look at the Techstars LA 2020 class of startups.