Chris DeWolfe

A $32 million seed round for Chris DeWolfe’s next gaming biz defies 2023 trends

A $32 million seed round may seem like a throwback to frothier times, like … 2021. But that’s how much PLAI Labs just raised in a deal led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). It’s a lot o

Consolidation is coming to gaming, and Jam City raises $145 million to capitalize on it

A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. There

Jam City is setting up a Toronto shop by buying Bingo Pop from Uken Games

The Los Angeles game development studio Jam City is setting up a shop in Toronto with the acquisition of Bingo Pop from Uken Games. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The deal is part of a b

New Harry Potter game, launching today, lets players enroll in Hogwarts

In the first step of what could be an endless exploration of the wizarding world of Harry Potter, the Los Angeles mobile games studio Jam City is releasing its Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game

Panda Pop passes 100 million users as Jam City readies for an IPO

The flagship game from Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City, Panda Pop, has reached over 9.3 million monthly active users and climbed above its 100 millionth download. The tentpole game fo

SGN becomes Jam City and announces a new Peanuts game

Mobile gaming company SGN announced today that it has a new name, Jam City. This isn’t the first time the company has rebranded — it was called MindJolt before acquiring SGN and then taking on

SGN Makes Its Big Push For Cross-Platform, Mobile-Social Games With The Launch Of Its MasterKey Technology

While <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/24/mark-pincus-zynga-game-execution/">Zynga has had high-profile struggles</a> to adapt to the rapid growth of mobile gaming, Chris DeWolfe, co-founder an

Keen On … The Greatest Entrepreneurs Are Born To Deal With Failure (TCTV)

Few people know failure better than venture capitalists. Even the most successful fail much more than they succeed and the best are those, like <a href="http://www.techcrunch.tv/show/keen-on/AzbzV4Mj

Keen On… Chris DeWolfe: What I Learned From The MySpace Failure (TCTV)

There is always an element of the confessional about interviewing people, but I really felt like a priest when I interviewed <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/myspace">MySpace</a> co-founder