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Savage Game Studios has completed a seed round of financing to the tune of $4.4 million. The mobile developer, which has been operating in stealth until now, is based across Berlin, Germany and Helsinki, Finland. It was founded by Michail Katkoff, who also founded popular blog and podcast Deconstructor of Fun. The studio formed last summer and is staffed by a core team of former staff from Rockstar, Wargaming, Rovio and Next Games, specialising in free-to-play and AAA game development. The seed round was led by Makers Fund, with participation from Play Ventures, which previously led an unann...

Private equity investments and exits Q3 2020 witnessed 173 Private equity ( PE) investments worth USD 7.5 billion The largest PE investment was announced by Silver Lake, KKR and General Atlantic's USD 2536 million investment in Reliance Retail Ventures The second largest investment was the USD 414 million acquisition of publicly-listed pharmaceuticals company JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd by global PE investor KKR The third largest investment was the purchase of ECL Finance's sticky corporate loans worth USD 401 million by US-based Farallon Capital and Singapore-based SSG Capital Funds ...

Parsec, the remote desktop platform for work and gaming that allows you to connect to and operate any device, has raised $25M in Series B funding from investors that include Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Hippeau, NextView Ventures, Notation Capital, Makers Fund, HP Ventures Group. Founded by Benjy Boxer, Christopher Dickson in 2016, Parsec has now raised a total of $33M in reported equity funding. AlleyWatch will publish an exclusive interview with Boxer tomorrow on Parsec’s Series B funding. It’s that time of year again! Nominations are now open for AlleyWatch’s 2021 NYC Tech Influence...

The funding round also included previous investors Makers Fund, Notation Capital, NextView Ventures, and Lerer Hippeau. The investment will go towards further developing its remote interactive desktop application, Parsec for Teams. It's geared towards a use by game studios for remote working, with clients including EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard, and Square Enix. Parsec also intends to grow its sales and marketing departments, and introduce new products that improve "creation, communication, and collaboration for a wide variety of remote tasks." Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, ...

Parsec raises $25M from a16z to power remote work and cloud gaming Parsec, a startup that’s built streaming technology for both work and play, is announcing that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. This brings Parsec’s total funding to $33 million, according to Crunchbase. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with the firm’s general partner Martin Casado joining the board. Previous investors Lerer Hippeau, Makers Fund, NextView Ventures and Notation Capital also participated. CEO Benjy Boxer told me that since he and CTO Chris Dickson founded the company in 2016, the vis...