DISQUS

The Equity Kicker: Massive investment into social games and virtual worlds

  • Jussi Laakkonen · 1 year ago
    It was an impossible challenge trying to find any comprehensive data about European VC investments in this space - which there just has to be. As an entrepreneur I have to be a betting man ;-), so I'd bet the investment in Europe is around 25% of that in the US. Leaving out the the two big deals, 25% would mean $40 million invested in Europe during 2008 on top of the deals listed in the table.

    This table really come out a casual discussion with Accel Partner's Heikki Mäkijärvi at the recent SIME Helsinki event. Over lunch I claimed that the VC investment pace was around $2-5 million a week, and I just had to back it with some research. The average turned out to be around $4,5 million a week (when leaving out the two big deals).
  • Adam Martin · 1 year ago
    Update: for the EU stuff, inspired by Jussi's excellent post, I dug out my detailed info on EU investments I'd been tracking, and wrote it up into the same format - http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/09/30/over-...

    Enjoy.

    (we're going to combine this all into one big spreadsheet soon!)