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Anime is Eating the World

Sep 23, 2024 | flipboard.com | Robin Guo

Anime – what started as a niche genre of manga and animation has become a multi-billion dollar industry in its own right, with chart-topping games …
Gaming Startup Funding Fell In Q2

Jul 22, 2024 | zephyrnet.com | Robin Guo

Funding to gaming startups is a lot like gaming itself. Sometimes players are up or down due to factors like skill, practice and perseverance. Other times, it's just dumb luck. Investment in gaming startups is like that too. Sometimes funding fluctuates for concrete reasons like the quality of the startup pipeline or how overall investment is trending. Other times, there's no obvious cause. The second quarter appears to be one of those other times.
Investing in Series AI

Sep 14, 2023 | a16z.com | Joshua Lu |Andrew Chen |Jonathan Lai |Robin Guo

Every few years, the games industry reinvents itself via new technological breakthroughs. Past examples include the Free to Play era, kickstarted by the dawn of novel game loops and monetization systems, along with the introduction of Mobile as a new distribution platform, which now accounts for $92.6B in revenue and makes up 49% of the total games market. We are now experiencing a new transformative shift, one that could be the most impactful yet.
Investing in Pahdo Labs

Sep 11, 2023 | a16z.com | Jonathan Lai |Joshua Lu |Robin Guo |Andrew Chen

Anime as a media category has exploded in reach and cultural influence around the world. 69% of Gen Z watch anime and half of Netflix’s 222M subscribers watched anime in 2021, with total anime watch time growing 20% annually. – where creators live stream via an anime-style virtual avatar – is also becoming increasingly popular on Twitch, growing at 350% YoY. In 2022, anime games accounted for 20% of total mobile game spend at $17B, not inclusive of PC/console spend.
Announcing SPEEDRUN 2024: Accelerating Games x Tech

Aug 1, 2023 | a16z.com | Joshua Lu |Andrew Lee |Robin Guo

SPEEDRUN began with a simple question: how can we support the best gaming founders at the earliest stages of their journey? Our answer was to craft a bespoke accelerator for the gaming industry. We invested in all 32 companies from our first cohort and more than 80% received additional funding after Demo Day in June.
For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More?

Mar 30, 2023 | a16z.com | Zeya Yang |Kristina Shen |Joshua Lu |Robin Guo

We’ve watched large language models (LLMs) become mainstream over the past few years and have studied the implementations in the context of B2B applications. Despite some enormous technological advances and the presence of LLMs in the general zeitgeist, we believe we’re still only in the first wave of generative AI applications for B2B use cases.
The Generative AI Revolution will Enable Anyone to Create Games

Mar 17, 2023 | a16z.com | Joshua Lu |Robin Guo |Guido Appenzeller |Jack Soslow

As the Generative AI Revolution in Games progresses, it will completely reshape User Generated Content (UGC) creating a world where anyone can build games and expanding the games market beyond what many thought was possible. In the coming years, deep technical knowledge or artistic mastery will no longer be essential skills needed to develop games; instead, creators will be limited only by their energy, creativity, and imagination. Ideas won’t be cheap; they’ll be precious.
Investing in Believer

Mar 7, 2023 | a16z.com | Andrew Chen |Robin Guo

There is a moment of wonder in every great game that makes you sit back, take a breath, and really appreciate what it is that you’re experiencing: stepping out into the world of Zelda, overcoming Margit for the first time in Elden Ring, stumbling across the giraffes in the verdant apocalypse of The Last of Us. These are the moments that Michael Chow and Steven Snow want to create at Believer.