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Happy summer, and welcome to the inaugural edition of our monthly LinkedIn newsletter!?
As our community has grown, we feel an increasing desire to help catalyze meaningful conversations, share updates from the incredible things being done within our portfolio, and shine a spotlight on the work our teams are doing.
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?? BAFTA-Nominated Scriptic Raises $5.7M for User-Generated Games Using Generative AI, Led by BITKRAFT
"HyperPlay's unwavering commitment to putting game devs at the forefront and delivering exceptional software products embodies the essence of 'developer love.'" - Malte Barth
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Two BITKRAFT portfolio companies - Discord and Polygon Labs - were named among TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential for 2023, which you can read more about here.
OpenBCI’s CEO Conor Russomanno spoke at TED2023 on his work building brain-computer interfaces and their potential to enable us to control the external world with our minds, before demonstrating a live showcase on stage.
Theorycraft Games introduced their first game in development, one that players have described as “League meets Apex meets Smash.” Sign up to play test here.
"Stormgate is shaping up to be a brilliant blend of modern and classic RTS." - PC Gamer
PC Gamer invited the folks from Frost Giant for a game play reveal, and the reviews are strong to quite strong. You can read all about it in this multimedia feature on the game.
Anzu earned a spot on the Nasdaq Tower after announcing the completion of its $48M Series B for their in-game advertising solution, bringing total funding to date up to $65M in the process. More on the big news is here.
June was a historic month at Immutable, as CEO James Ferguson shared the team had onboarded more games to their platform last month than ever before in its lifetime.
???Events + Appearances
Spectacular time bringing together our SoCal friends for drinks and laughs in partnership with the incredible team at Aream & Co. adjacent to LA Tech Week.
Jens addressed Included VC 's latest cohort as part of our continued commitment to building a more equitable ecosystem within venture capital.
Jin spoke at the K-Game Forum, sharing perspectives on how Korean video games could succeed in the global market.
Nico, Ben, Jamie, and Jamie's tan hosted a Friends + Founders dinner in London.
gg this issue: Nihal Tharoor, Benedict Tatham, Scriptic, HyperPlay,
Jacob C, Malte Barth, Kevin Robertson, Candace Kim, Jason Citron,
Discord, Ryan Wyatt, Polygon Labs, Sandeep Nailwal, Conor Russomanno,
Joseph Artuso,OpenBCI, Christian Bayerlein, Theorycraft Games, Joe Tung,
Tim Campbell, Frost Giant Studios, Inc., Anzu.io, Itamar Benedy,
Immutable, James Ferguson, Aream & Co., Affan Butt, Julian Au,
Jens Hilgers, Nikita Thakrar, Anu Panesar, Included VC, Jin Oh,
Nico Vereecke, Ben Naylor, Jamie Wallace
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