Celebrate the women in gaming – female founders edition! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, GDC (Game Developers Conference) was held in San Francisco and brought with it thousands of gaming enthusiasts and designers/producers/artists – the whole gaming ecosystem! Women in gaming came out to represent as speakers and attendees. Special [...]
Posts Tagged "Kabam"
Female Founders To Watch: Google Ventures Portfolio Companies
January 4, 2013 – 3:28 pm
Meet the female founders in the Google Ventures portfolio. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The venture capital arm of Google formed in 2009, Google Ventures has 100+ companies in its portfolio – check out their nifty infographic for 2012 impact and reach with $300M in funds. The investor to watch from Google [...]
Growing Kabam From 4 Founders to 500 Employees (Going Big)
October 25, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Holly Liu (Co-Founder, Kabam) My social gaming startup Kabam has just raised $85MM in Series D funding from Google Ventures, totaling ~$125MM raised to date. Kabam has 4 offices worldwide and 500 employees, so it feels like we’ve come a long way — but still have so much more to go. Sometimes I think [...]
Kabam Co-Founder Holly Liu on Early Startup Failures
October 14, 2011 – 8:13 am
By Cassie Phillipps (Executive Producer, Failcon) Editor’s note: In 2006, we met Holly Liu who had just co-founded Kabam, a Google Ventures -funded social gaming startup that today employs over 400 across offices in San Francisco and Redwood City (California), Beijing (China), and Luxembourg. Holly talks to Cassie at Failcon about turning mistakes and failures [...]
