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Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Jussi Laakkonen of social gaming stealth startup Everyplay has a great post tracking investment in the social games and virtual worlds space. The simple message - there is a whole heap of activity, with roughly $2-5m being invested per week, and some large individual deals, incl
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9 months ago
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).
9 months ago
Enjoy.
(we're going to combine this all into one big spreadsheet soon!)