Rovio

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Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 27, 2022 · 1 mention · from 33:54
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Mar 11, 2016 negative

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De Masi: Rovio's Shakira celebrity game was a commercial failure

“Rovio built a Shakira game that didn't work.”

Niccolo De Masi Mar 11, 2016 ▶ 33:08 20VC: Niccolo De Masi on The Bursting Of The Tech Bubble and What It Takes To Be A Celebrity Partner with Glu Mobile

Apr 11, 2016

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Rovio's $42M Series A was larger than Felicis Ventures' entire fund

“When Rovio closed their first Series A round, it was forty-two million dollars, and that was larger than our whole fund.”

Aydin Senkut Apr 11, 2016 ▶ 18:14 20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!

Apr 11, 2016

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Rovio became Shopify's top store out of 10,000 within a week

“In seven days, the Rovio store was up and running on Shopify. Instantly, it became the top store in Shopify among 10,000 stores. They sold out their whole inventory in a week”

Aydin Senkut Apr 11, 2016 ▶ 20:04 20VC: Felicis' Aydin Senkut on Scaling Felicis From $4m to $120m, Doing Venture Differently and Why Being A VC Is Like A Jamaican Bobsled Team!

Dec 4, 2017 neutral

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Accel invested in Qualtrics, Rovio, and Atlassian via its growth fund

“The Qualtrics, the Rovios, the Alassians are all bets out of the growth fund, as it turns out.”

Rich Wong Dec 4, 2017 ▶ 10:29 20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years

May 27, 2022

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Senkut: Felicis's $41M debut fund backed Rovio, Shopify, and Fitbit

“The very first fund we had was only forty one million, and we invested in Rovio in Finland from that. The whole round was bigger than our whole firm. Shopify's A round and Fitbit's B round”

Aydin Senkut May 27, 2022 ▶ 5:14 Aydin Senkut: How I Scaled from a $4M Angel Fund to $900M AUM | 20VC #890 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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