This Week in Esports w/ Mark Cai Sept. 20-26
BIG INVESTMENTS INTO TECH-GAMING FIRMS
This Week in Esports/Gaming
9.20-9.26, 2021
Top Three
– StreamElements raised $100M
– Mari ‘AtomicMari’ Takahashi became a co-owner of Spacestation Gaming
– Dapper Labs raised $250M, reaching a $7.6B valuation
Partnerships
– Garena x Sony Pictures Entertainment
– Fnatic x ASOS
– HyperX x Minna Stess
– BLAST x Riot Games
– eFuse x Esports Collegiate
– MAD Lions x El Corte Inglés
– CLG x Advocate
– PlayVS x Special Olympics North America
– Team Gullit x SEIKO Vision
– Rivalry x 00 Brasil
– Twitch x National Music Publishers’ Association
Finance + M&A
– Misfits Gaming Group raised $35M
– Team Nigma merged with Galaxy Racer to be called Nigma Galaxy
– Sorare raised a $680M Series B
– My.Games acquired Mamboo Games
Workforce
– Ryan Crosby promoted to President of Publishing
– Michael Speakman (Head of Commercial) → ORDER
– Zoey Ng (Regional Marketing Manager) → Galaxy Racer
– Tom Greene (Chief Growth Officer) → BLAST
– Bertrand Bodson (CEO) → Keywords Studios
New Stuff
– Felicia Day launched her own crypto coin
– Black Ice Facility opened in Minnesota
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Mark
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Mark Cai
