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Pocket Worlds raises $7 million to double down on social mobile games Pocket Worlds emerged into social mobile games with Highrise in 2015, and the company is looking to expand in that space with the help of some additional funding from the likes of Bitkraft Ventures. Thye company has now has raised $7 million to both accelerate development of more social mobile games and scale up its entirely remote development team to support that planned growth. As it stands, Pocket Worlds currently oversees just Highrise, but says in a press release that the social sandbox MMO currently boasts over 7 million users. Following on the recent growth of that game, CEO Anton Bernstein says that Pocket Worlds is keen to create social games that reach a wider market as well. ....
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. “Most Sundays, my family and I would alternate between a roast and dim sum,” says Pippa Lamb. The British-born investor has always clung tightly to her Chinese roots, growing up in a family of political refugees (on her father’s side) who fled Communist China. Through her biculturalism, Lamb seems to have found comfort in duality achieving academic excellence at both Oxford and Harvard, switching from English to Mandarin, and now connecting creatives with entrepreneurs at Sweet Capital. And that’s what seems to drive her: bridging worlds. “From the earliest years, I was always surrounded by this curiosity about building something, watching my father who is a lifelong entrepreneur,” Lamb tells ....