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The Believer Company Raised $55 Million Led By Lightspeed Venture Partners and a16z

admin — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 20:10:22 +0000

The Believer Company raises $55 million to create a new game studio in Los Angeles. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreesen Horowitz (A16z) led the round with participation from Bitkraft Ventures, Riot Games, 1Up Ventures, Don Thompson’s Cleveland Avenue, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, and more.

The CEO, Michael Chow is a former Riot Games employee who was executive producer of League of Legends: Wild Rift. Michael was also a cofounder of Words With Friends developer Newtoy. The Believer Company’s other co-founder is Steven Snow who serves as the chief product officer. Steven Snow was a founding member of Riot Games and was the executive producer of League of Legends.

Other team members include:

The CTO is Landon McDowell (Microsoft, Riot Games, Linden Lab);

The chief creative officer is Jeremy Vanhoozer (Bungie, Electronic Arts);

The COO is Tim Hsu (Twitter, Riot Games);

CMO is Shankar Gupta-Harrison (Riot Games, Dentsu X);

The director of operations is Grace Park (League of Legends: Wild Rift); and

The vice president of design is Jeff Jew (League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra).

The Web3 Startup “Here Not There” – Building Towns – Revealed $25M Funding Round Led By a16z

admin — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:00:56 +0000

The web3 startup “Here Not There” reveals a $25 million funding round led by a16z. The Series A round was also backed by Benchmark and Framework Ventures. The company is developing Towns, a decentralized group chat protocol and app, that allows users to build online communities on the blockchain. Communities can use Towns to create programmable, self-governed “town squares”.

Here Not There Labs was co-founded by Ben Rubin – former CEO and co-founder of Houseparty and Meerkat. Brian Meek – former CTO of STRIVR Labs and General Manager of Engineering at Skype.

Champions Ascension Has Revealed The Dates for Their Release of Its Elemental Eternals Mint and Introduction To Plai Labs

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 01:51:41 +0000

Champions Ascension held an initial sale of their Prime Eternals in early 2022. With only 7,622 in existence, Prime Eternals grant many benefits that other characters won’t receive. This includes guaranteed land mints, special breeding options, early access, and, recently released, an airdrop of Pet NFTs.

Champions Ascension’s Massina is a theme-park metaverse where individuals can play, earn, socialize and create new content. The Champions come from many different worlds and backgrounds, but they have all arrived in “Massina to chase a dangerous, glorious dream: to conquer the Colosseum Eternal”.

Champions Ascension just revealed planned dates for the upcoming Elemental Eternals mint. This is a completely free mint, and features the second highest tier Characters that will be available in the game. In other news, the game, and apparently the entire team, have moved to a new company called Plai Labs – Johnny Casamassina is currently CCO. PlaiLabs also just raised $32 million from a16z.

Proof Announced $50 Million Funding Round Led By New Moonbirds NFT Collection and a16z

admin — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:13:10 +0000

Proof Collective just announced they have raised $50 million in a Series A funding round led by a16z. With additional participation from Seven Seven Six, True Ventures, Collab+Currency, Flamingo DAO, SV Angel, and VaynerFund.

The Proof Collective’s third NFT collection, Moonbirds Mythics, was also announced earlier this week. It will be a 20,000 PFP collection launching in early 2023.

Moonbirds DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization, will oversee licensing of the company’s Moonbirds NFT brand, granting trademark rights, and distributing funding to upcoming NFT projects.

The company’s leadership also shared its progress on the upcoming launch of the Proof social platform, which will enable users to showcase their NFT collections and provide data-driven insights into the NFT industry. Proof also revealed plans to release an eponymous token, with more details to come sometime in 2023.