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Microdramas, predictive modeling and generative AI are moving audience data upstream — reshaping how stories are imagined, financed and greenlit across Hollywood and the global creative economy.

הרטלי רוג'רס, יו"ר משותף ובעל מניות בחברת ההשקעות האמריקאית המילטון ליין, הספיק לבקר בישראל כמה פעמים מאז 7 באוקטובר, והוא מאמין גדול בשוק המקומי: "ישראל מדהימה. למרות קוטנה היא מסוגלת להתחרות ברמה הגלובלית" • ומה ההמלצות שלו למשקיעים?

Vgames and General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund have partnered to offer growth financing for gaming studios worldwide.

In their first round of financing funding, the trio has raised $14 million from lead investors vgames and Pitango, along with funds from Alexis Ohanian, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian and Traverse Ventures.

Games drove the creation of GPU processors back in the 1990s, so it's only fitting that artificial intelligence the technology that...

איתן רייסל, שותף מנהל, Vgames אמר את הדברים בפאנל בוועידת הגיימינג של כלכליסט בשיתוף גוגל ופלייטיקה. בפאנל השתתפו ליאור קינן, סמנכ"ל בכיר אסטרטגיות צמיחה, פלייטיקה, ואור גילרון, מייסד משותף ומנכ"ל Innplay Labs. לדבריו: "60% מהשחקניות שלנו הן נשים, אבל אין כמעט פאונדריות"

Eitan Reisel, Managing Partner of vgames, spoke at Calcalist's Gaming Conference in partnership with Google and Playtika as part of a panel discussion about the current landscape in Israel's gaming industry.

Vgames raised $142 million for its third fund to continue investing in talented gaming teams across the world.

The Israeli fund doubles down on gaming with its third and largest fund since 2020.

Playtika has agreed to acquire SuperPlay, a mobile gaming company in Israel for a price ranging from $700 million to $1.95 billion.

Eitan Reisel is a maverick in the vc world. he raised a $300M fund in less than 6 years and invested in the fastest growing gaming companies in the world. Learn about his background and strategies in this interview.

Financing for gaming companies is on an upward trend for the first quarter of 2024 according to Drake Star Partners. Both mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and private placements saw modest gains in Q1 2024.

Mountaintop Studios closed a new $30 million funding round for its untitled tactical FPS debut and locked in several creators and celebrity angel investors. This list includes top creators shroud, tarik, iiTzTimmy, Cohh Carnage, and Sacriel alongside Grammy-Award winner Zedd and the NBA's Paul George.

Playtika has agreed to acquire Innplay Labs, a mobile game studio in Israel, for an upfront fee of $80 million and as much as $300 million.

Eitan Reisel, Founder and Managing Partner at vgames, was talking on a panel at the Calcalist gaming conference in which he was joined by Adam Fisher, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, Eze Vidra, Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures and Roi Karo, Chief Risk and Strategy Officer at Fireblocks

Under the tagline "All The Drama You Need," NBCUniversal's Global Advertising and Partnerships unit and the gaming startup team on custom spots featuring 'Real Housewives' star Dorit Kemsley, 'Barmageddon' host Nikki Garcia, and former 'Top Chef VIP' contestant Chiky BomBom.

AUSTIN, Texas-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Haveli Investments, L.P. , a technology and gaming-focused private equity firm, today announced that it has acquired...

PvP hit Match Masters has now earned Israeli studio Candivore over $200m in IAP revenue, with over 50m downloads to date.

Scriptic (previously ElectricNoir), the immersive storytelling platform, announced Thursday that it raised $5.7 million in funding to expand its catalog of phone-first interactive games created using generative AI tools.

We host Eitan Reisel, managing partner of the vgames fund - a venture capital fund that invests only in the worlds of games.

ElectricNoir is launching Dark Mode, an AI-generated horror anthology that is a kind of visual novel or game.

Playstream has raised $2 million for its AI engine that generates the best gaming or any live content from livestreams in seconds. Playstream's Spikes.gg AI Engine takes hours of content and produces bite-sized content.

This episode is with Eitan Reisel of vgames.vc, an Israeli based VC firm that invests in gaming startups. In this episode, Eitan talks about what gaming sectors are attractive, what he invests...

The Israeli startup develops mobile arcade games connected to physical counterparts, with players controlling the real machines through mobile apps

In the shadow of a shattered economy, Turkey has become a hyper-casual gaming incubator, attracting international venture capital funds and exporting gaming companies that are sold at lofty valuations

Candivore, the maker of the popular mobile game Match Masters, has raised a $10 million funding round to make casual multiplayer games.

The high-tech market has cooled off, so in this year's list of the 50 most promising Israeli startups we placed a special focus not only on growth and innovative ideas, but also on business models, actual revenue and the ability to realize potential

As an interactive storytelling platform, Dorian is building a new way for writers to make money off of their fiction by turning their tales into...

Conversation with Eitan Reisel managing director Vgames.

In this podcast episode, I'm chatting with Eitan Reisel, Managing Partner of VGames, an early-stage gaming VC from Israel. Eitan and his team have been operating for a few years...

Return Entertainment announced today it has raised around $6 million (€5.3 million) in a round of funding. It plans to use this funding to continue its development of cloud-native games.

Gaming in Israel is becoming as big as hi-tech. Local firms are rooted in online gambling, producing games designed to extract more and more money out of users

The Tel Aviv, Israel-based fund previously raised $60 million in March 2020 to invest in game studios in Europe and Israel.

Seattle-based game studio Starform has raised $5 million. The startup plans to use the money on further development for its first game

Splitgate’s servers need to be upgraded before the official launch

Boom Corp. has raised $1.8 million in seed funding to develop social games that bring people together, much like the ...

This year, the gaming sector is set to make more than the movie and sports industries combined. Here are some of the Israeli superstars leading the sector

Israel's gaming sector inspired Reisel to become the Founder and Managing Partner of VGames - the country's first ven...

1047 Games has raised $6.5 million to for further development of its free-to-play, Portal-like shooter game Splitgate.

Candivore has raised $12 million to fund growth for the company’s games such as Match Masters, a mobile match-3 puzzler.

To date VGames has made four investments and plans investing in 15-20 companies in Israel and Eastern Europe.

The number of game investments and acquisitions in the second quarter of 2020 declined from the first quarter, but the value of the deals was higher, according to data collected by game investment specialist Sergei Evdokimov.

VGames has raised more than $60 million for its game-focused investment fund based in Israel. It’s one of dozens of venture capital and investment funds that have been drawn to the game industry in recent years.

The Israeli startup is behind the game Clawee, which enables playing real claw machines through live video streaming, and the delivering of real prizes to the winner's doorstep