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Mobile Gaming Startup Playco Raises $100 Million From Investors Including Will Smith

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Dreamers VC, venture firms Sozo Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, the Makers Fund, the Angel Fund and Digital Garage.Professional soccer player Keisuke Honda’s investment group KSK Angel Fund and Mistletoe Singapore, founded by Korean-Japanese gaming investor Taizo Son, also contributed funds.The company was created by mobile gaming veteran Justin Waldron, who co-founded mobile gaming giant Zynga in 2007.

Waldron left Zynga in 2013 and was a private investor as well as an advisor for controversial tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel’s Thiel Foundation for several years before stating Playco.Playco is led by Waldron, chief executive Michael Carter, web gaming development veteran Teddy Cross and Takeshi Otsuka, who was most recently the managing.

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