Amit Chowdhry | July 24, 2011 | 524 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Benchmark Capital, David Perry, Gaikai, Intel Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Qualcomm, Rustic Canyon Ventures

Game streaming startup company Gaikai has raised $30 million in a third round of funding. Games are stored in the cloud and is delivered through high-speed Internet connections when on demand.

Amit Chowdhry | October 20, 2010 | 673 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Comerica Bank, DCM, Mayfield Fund, PlayFirst, Rustic Canyon Ventures

PlayFirst is a popular mobile gaming company behind games such as Dinner Dash, Cooking Dash, Wedding Dash, and Hotel Dash. These games have been extremely popular on the Apple App Store. Because of this, PlayFirst raised $9.2 million in venture capital funding. PlayFirst plans to use the funding to increase their agility in the social and mobile gaming space according to VentureBeat. Mayfield Fund, Trinity Partners, DCM, and Rustic Canyon Ventures put in $5.2 million in this round. Comerica Bank invested $4 million in debt financing.
