Emily Greer: Lessons in Entrepreneurship, Scaling, and Culture

Emily Greer: Lessons in Entrepreneurship, Scaling, and Culture

ByNaavik

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this episode, Emily Greer – co-founder and CEO of Double Loop Games (previously Kongregate) – joins Naavik co-founder Aaron Bush to discuss: #1 What Double Loop Games is building and how it aims to redefine the “casual” genre. #2 How the games industry’s venture ecosystem has changed since Kongregate raised capital in 2006-2010. #3 How Emily has improved as an entrepreneur when it comes to kickstarting, scaling, and setting an exit strategy for a business. #4 Tactics and advise when it comes to cultural and diversity efforts.

Sophie Vo: Lessons in Conscious Leadership.

Sophie Vo: Lessons in Conscious Leadership.

ByNaavik

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, Sophie Vo – founder of Rise and Play, as well as a game / studio lead – joins Naavik co-founder Aaron Bush to discuss conscious leadership and why does it matter. The duo also explores how to best lead teams among change – remote work, studio restructuring, layoffs, and more – as well as how to make teams antifragile. Sophie also shares how she assesses conscious leadership as an early stage investor and the best books to build a conscious mindset.

What VCs Look For in Web3 Games

What VCs Look For in Web3 Games

ByNaavik

Reading Time: < 1 minute On this week’s Crypto Corner, Play Ventures’ Anton Backman and Konvoy Ventures’ Philip Collins join your host Nico Vereecke for discussion about how we see the Web3 Gaming space evolve over the next 2 years. The group explores the trade-offs between building games vs building tooling/infrastructure, the importance of innovating on gameplay design versus tokenomics and their theories on what games will be the most successful.

Matthew Ball: Gaming x The Metaverse

Matthew Ball: Gaming x The Metaverse

ByNaavik

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, Matthew Ball joins Naavik co-founder Aaron Bush to discuss his book, The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything, which can be purchased here. The duo also discusses how virtual worlds could take their first steps to connect and interoperate. Matthew also shares why he’s excited about Massive Interactive Live Events (MILEs), and what he’s learned as a producer of one.

Salone Sehgal: The Next 1B Gamers Will Be In India

Salone Sehgal: The Next 1B Gamers Will Be In India

ByNaavik

Reading Time: 15 minutes Salone Sehgal is a general partner at Lumikai, India’s first gaming & interactive media fund. She previously founded her own gaming startup and served as a GP at London Venture Partners. In this conversation, we chat about India’s games market — it’s potential to bring gaming to the next 1B users — key macro market trends and specialized gaming VCs.

Gaming Industry Nearly Twice as Large as Reported, at $336B

Gaming Industry Nearly Twice as Large as Reported, at $336B

ByMatt Dion

Reading Time: 11 minutes This essay was written collaboratively between Naavik with BITKRAFT Ventures. BITKRAFT is one of gaming’s top venture firms, investing in notable companies like Epic Games, Manticore, & Yield Guild Games. Matt Dion, Jimmy Stone and Abhimanyu Kumar contributed from Naavik’s side. In 2021, gaming—consistently reported as a roughly $175B industry¹—stands as the largest media category…

The Present & Future State of Gaming Venture Capital

The Present & Future State of Gaming Venture Capital

ByMatt Dion

Reading Time: 13 minutes This essay was written by Matt Dion. In addition to being a content consultant at Naavik, Matt is a product manager at EA Mobile. Source: Crunchbase Last month, Turkish casual games developer Dream Games raised $155M in a Series B round, valuing the company at $1B. This made Dream Games the industry’s latest “unicorn” —…