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Re: Massive investment into social games and virtual worlds

Free Games — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0000

The improvement and development in social gaming have evolved into a different kind of level since it first began. So it's not a weird thing if massive investment put into social gaming and virtual world.

Re: Massive investment into social games and virtual worlds

Adam Martin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:03:27 -0000

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....

Enjoy.

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

Re: Massive investment into social games and virtual worlds

Jussi Laakkonen — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:51:29 -0000

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).