The Hive

Ep 08. The Road to Self Publishing and Hyper Casual Games

In this episode of The Hive, we hear from Riley Andersen, CEO and Founder of Umami Games, about rocketing up the charts with hyper casual titles and gearing up to self-publish.   —  Pollen VC is the market leader in capital-efficient funding for mobile app developers and digital publishers. They provide lines of credit to app publishers allowing them to unlock their unpaid revenues and eliminate payout delays of up to 60+ days.

Ep 07. Leveraging AI to Automate Mobile Media Buying

Data used to be the single source of truth for marketers, but this has changed; the bigger question is what do we know and how do we know it? We also want to understand how automation can give us answers and drive better results. We direct these questions to our guest, Athar Zia [https://www.linkedin.com/in/athar-zia-97555462/] ‘Z’ — Founder and CEO of BLKBOX.ai [https://blkbox.ai/].

Ep 06. The Latest Trends & Fundamentals of Building a Brand

In our sixth episode of The Hive, we hear from Peter Fodor - Founder & CEO of AppAgent - about growth hacks, trends, and the path to brand and brand equity. — Pollen VC provides flexible lines of credit to mobile app and game developers, enabling you to borrow up to 4x your monthly revenues on a simple, transparent interest rate basis. We enable you to unlock the value trapped in your platform receivables (AR) and also in your existing marketing cohorts, giving you an elastic line of credit that flexes in line with your business growth. Capital can be rapidly reinvested back into user acquisition to help growth without solely relying on dilutive venture capital funding

Ep 05. Blockbuster IPs and How to Finance Them

Viker is a London-based indie mobile studio that designs, develops, and publishes free-to-play games. Dan Beasley, Co-Founder of Viker, talks to host Peggy Anne Salz on Viker’s approach to funding and growing IPs, including their latest title and household name — Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

Ep 04. The Emerging Gaming VC Landscape

In this episode of Pollen VC's The Hive, Marvin Liao — Board Member & Partner of Game Groove Capital — explores the surge in mobile gaming in Eastern Europe and the outlook for the global gaming VC landscape.