http://theequitykicker.disqus.com/Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and mediaenThu, 02 Oct 2008 09:03:27 -0000http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/25/massive-investment-into-social-games-and-virtual-worlds/#comment-4456441Update: 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 - <a href="http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/09/30/over-150m-invested-in-europe-into-social-games-vws-casual-mmos-games/" rel="nofollow">http://t-machine.org/index.php/2008/09/30/over-...</a><br><br>Enjoy.<br><br>(we're going to combine this all into one big spreadsheet soon!)Adam MartinThu, 02 Oct 2008 09:03:27 -0000http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/09/25/massive-investment-into-social-games-and-virtual-worlds/#comment-4456440It 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.<br><br>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).Jussi LaakkonenThu, 25 Sep 2008 04:51:29 -0000