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Erez Capital Announces the Addition of 40 Venture Partners and $10M Commitment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22, 2023 Press Contact: Noah Ente Associate Erez Capital [email protected]  Boston, June 23, 2023 - Erez Capital, a emerging venture capital fund investing in disruptive technologies, is thrilled to announce its addition of 40 Venture Partners to join the fund. These new partners will play an important role in the quickly developing artificial intelligence ecosystem - specifically in the proptech, medtech and fintech sectors. “This is an exciting new chapter for Erez Capital, creating a new collaborative model to drive rapid acceleration and growth for pre-seed

Best Educational Books, Toys, Games, Apps & More To Help Kids…

Academics' Choice Award Seals We at Hoot Reading are humbled and honored to be chosen as winners of the Academics' Choice Smart Media Award! APTOS, Calif. (PRWEB) September 14, 2021 Academics' Choice today congratulates all winners of the Summer 2021 Academics' Choice Awards, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The fall winners include teacher-approved, brain-boosting products from Classical Kids Music Education, Craftie Fox, Inc., Global Game Changers, 4M Industrial Development Limited, Magnitude Educational , ViBuGo, The Learning Journey International, Cog Toy

Top 40 Educational Toys & Media for Students and Teachers – Spring…

Our product team works tirelessly to develop games that introduce educational concepts, spark curiosity, and practice fundamental learning skills throughout game play, and these awards underscore their commitment to excellence. APTOS, Calif. (PRWEB) May 27, 2021 Academics' Choice today congratulates all winners of the Spring 2021 Academics' Choice Awards, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The fall winners include teacher-approved, brain-boosting products from LeapFrog, Tynker, SimplyFun, Little Learning Hands, Games by Absolute Zero, da Vinci's Room, Sago Mini, Cybele's Games, Ubongo,

March Investment Recap: More Than $200M of Fresh Capital Gets Injected into the Esports Ecosystem 

During the month of March 2021, The Esports Observer tracked 23 investments raised by esports-relevant companies. Disclosed investments amounted to $233M USD, bringing the total sum of disclosed investments in 2021 to $1.9B.  In addition to several significant investments, including Overwolf’s $50M+ and Envy Gaming’s 40M Series C financing rounds, several private placement deals by Toronto Stock Exchange Venture Exchange listed esports companies, and multiple seed round investments, a couple of major deals in the works came to light during the month. Super League Gaming is in the process of acquiring live streaming technology platform Mobcrush at a transaction value likely to exceed $60M and Microsoft is in talks to acquire gaming

Lowkey Raises $7M Series A Financing Round 

San Francisco-based tech startup Lowkey announced that it has raised a $7M USD Series A financing round from Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Figma co-founder and CEO Dylan Field, Loom co-founder and CEO Joe Thomas, Plaid co-founders Zach Perret and William Hockey, and several unnamed investors from the gaming and social media industries. The company, which currently employs eight people, will use some of the investment proceeds to hire new talent.   Lowkey was created by Harvard graduate Jesse Zhang to build a software solution to capture gameplay videos

Riot Games Investigation Finds No Wrongdoing By CEO

Top GamesRiot Games CEO Nicolo Laurent at the 2018 League of Legends World Championship. | ESPAT Media/Getty ImagesRiot Games says a third-party investigation into the alleged misconduct of its CEO Nicolas Laurent found no evidence of wrongdoing and recommended Laurents receive no punishment from the company. Riot shared the news with staff in an email to staff Tuesday, the Washington Post reports.Allegations of misconduct first came to light Jan. 7, when Sharon O'Donnell, a former executive assistant at Riot Games, filed a lawsuit claiming Laurent had created a hostile work

Top Educational Toys, Games, Books, Platforms & Apps To Help Kids…

We are grateful and honoured for this prestigious award that confirms we are on the right track. APTOS, Calif. (PRWEB) September 04, 2020 Academics' Choice today congratulates all winners of the Summer 2020 Academics' Choice Awards, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. The summer winners include brain-boosting products from Curriki, Learning Resources, Playtango, Blub Blub Inc., Playroom Entertainment, Master Theorem Games, K's Kids, Tinkerer, Red Star Holdings, HUE, Hernando Acevedo Rios, Adventerra Games, Sullivans Distribution Inc., Owl Hill Media, Madelyn Hornstein,