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Metafy lands $25M to scale its gaming coaching platform

TechCrunch

Metafy , a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. Since that funding event, Metafy acquired rival games coaching platform GamersRdy, and the company said coaches using its service grossed over $1 million last year.

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SenpAI.GG wants to be your AI-powered video game coach

TechCrunch

With most popular online video games, there’s a huge gap between being a good player and a great one. But as a game gets older/bigger/more complex, the best players tend to have a wealth of one resource that’s oh-so-crucial, if not oh-so-fun to gather: information. Which guns do the most damage at this range?

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Metafy adds $5.5M to its seed round as the market for games coaching grows

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Instead, the company is pursuing games with strong niche followings, what Fabian described as “vibrant, loyal communities.” ” Like Super Smash Brothers, its leading game today in terms of GMV generated. Why pursue those titles instead of the most competitive games?

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Video game coaching marketplace Metafy cuts 23% of staff despite doubling revenue

TechCrunch

Metafy , a marketplace for video game coaching, laid off 23% of its staff last week, primarily impacting product, design and engineering teams, founder Joshua Fabian confirmed in an e-mail to TechCrunch. June was our best month ever across GMV, AOV, game distribution and total active coaches. You’re in good hands.

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Niantic buys competitive gaming platform Mayhem

TechCrunch

Pokèmon Go creator Niantic has acquired a small SF gaming startup building a league and tournament organization platform to help gamers create their own communities around popular titles. Mayhem was in Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch and went onto raise $5.7 million in funding according to Crunchbase.

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Cowboy Ventures’ Ted Wang: CEO coaching is ‘about having a second set of eyes’

TechCrunch

Earlier this month, Cowboy Ventures’ Ted Wang joined us at TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising, where he spoke about executive coaching and why he encourages founders in his portfolio to have a CEO coach. Why CEOs need coaching. Timestamp: 4:52). Timestamp: 8:59).

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Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure

Agile Alliance

It's hard to practice coaching a team or an organization. without actually coaching a team or organization. So, we've created a set of "Choose Your Own Coaching Adventure" games similar to our other coaching games, but focused on teams and organizations.

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