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Jussi Laakkonen

9 months ago

in Massive investment into social games and virtual worlds on The Equity Kicker
It was an impossible challenge trying to find any comprehensive data about European VC investments in this space - which there just has to be. As an entrepreneur I have to be a betting man ;-), so I'd bet the investment in Europe is around 25% of that in the US. Leaving out the the two big deals, 25% would mean $40 million invested in Europe during 2008 on top of the deals listed in the table.

This table really come out a casual discussion with Accel Partner's Heikki Mäkijärvi at the recent SIME Helsinki event. Over lunch I claimed that the VC investment pace was around $2-5 million a week, and I just had to back it with some research. The average turned out to be around $4,5 million a week (when leaving out the two big deals).
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