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A TikTok creator network on one side. A short-drama studio and app on the other. Alta Media USA is working on both sides of the same question: what makes somebody stay?
Easygo built the casino. Then it built the crowd.
The Melbourne company behind Stake and KICK is joining gambling, livestreaming and game development under one roof. Its most useful lessons begin where the first version stopped working.
Disciple
The London company behind branded community apps for the Rolling Stones and hundreds of quieter passion groups wants creators to stop renting their audiences from Facebook.
Etaily
Etaily is a Southeast Asian commerce enablement platform that helps global and regional consumer brands sell online across the region. Founded in 2020 by Alexander Friedhoff, it runs an end-to-end operation - marketplace and D2C store management, social commerce and livestreaming, digital marketing, data analytics, warehousing and fulfillment - so brands can launch and scale on channels like Lazada, Shopee, TikTok Shop, Zalora and brand.com without building local teams. Headquartered in the Philippines with offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, Etaily has processed over 40 million orders and works with brands including Levi's, Skechers, Abbott and L'Oreal.
Kayvon Beykpour
Kayvon Beykpour is the co-founder and CEO of Macroscope, an AI-powered code intelligence platform that raised $40M in funding. Before Macroscope, he co-founded Periscope - the live video streaming app acquired by Twitter in 2015 for a reported $100 million - and spent seven years at Twitter rising to Head of Consumer Product. A Stanford Computer Science graduate of Iranian heritage who grew up in Northern California, Beykpour has a pattern of building tools that make invisible things visible: first the world's live moments, now the inner workings of engineering teams.
Connie Chan
Connie Chan is a venture capitalist and technology writer who spent 12 years at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), becoming the firm's first-ever internally promoted General Partner in 2018. Known as 'Silicon Valley's China Whisperer,' she made her mark by translating Asian tech trends - super apps, social commerce, livestream shopping - into investment theses before Western founders even knew the terms. Her 2015 WeChat essay won the New York Times Sidney Award and predicted the app-consolidation wave that would reshape mobile over the following decade. She backed Pinterest early, championed Lime before scooters were cool, and holds board seats at Whatnot, KoBold Metals, and Cider. In January 2024, after 12 years at a16z, she stepped back from GP duties to pursue a new Asia-focused venture.