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African gaming startup Carry1st raises $27M from Bitkraft Ventures and a16z
7:00 am PST • January 17, 2023
In the coming decades, Africa will be a significant growth market for mobile games, driven by the proliferation of technology adoption among the continent’s youthful population. And as gamers in…
Media & Entertainment
a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round
7:04 am PST • January 19, 2022
Carry1st, a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). This is a16z’s first…
Startups
Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A
5:00 am PDT • May 4, 2021
Africa is the last frontier for basically anything. Mobile gaming is no exception. For a continent that is home to more than 1 billion millennials and Gen Zers, mobile gaming…
Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming
10:16 pm PDT • May 27, 2020
Gaming development startup Carry1st has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by CRE Venture Capital. That brings the company’s total VC to $4 million, which Carry1st will deploy to…
