Contest: ask a question about investing in games and get a Premium ticket to White Nights

How investors, venture angels and big tech companies decide who to invest in and how much will be discussed at a round table at White Nights St. Petersburg 2019. We suggest that you first ask questions to its participants. The author of the best question will receive a Premium ticket to the conference.

About the topic of the round table

If the main problem for small companies is to find money, then for financial tycoons — in whom and how to invest. Investors are looking primarily for those game studios that are most likely not only to be able to recapture money, but also to make money. How exactly they make such decisions, among other things, will be considered at the round table.

Participants

Stewart Rogers
Stuart Rogers is responsible for moderating the round table.

He is a leading analyst at VentureBeat, where he writes about new developments in the field of marketing technologies, AI, as well as augmented and virtual reality. Stewart has been working in the IT business since 1992 – mainly in the field of business development.

Diana Moldavskaya
In the European branch of Tencent, Diana holds the position of Director of International Relations and Investment.

She is responsible for finding game studios. As she says on LinkedIn: “If you are an innovative, creative game studio that is looking for a Chinese, global partner or investment, let’s talk.” Diana has been in the gaming industry since 2011, that’s when she took the post of a leading revenue officer at ZeptoLab.

Christopher Bergstresser
Christopher’s career started in 1993, when he began to be responsible for strategic partnerships and product launches in the American branch of Sega.

After that, he managed to work at Konami, Atari and Miniclip. Today he is a partner of the holding investment company MTG, which invests in gaming and esports businesses. Among its assets are InnoGames and Kongregate.

Jim Ying
In game development since 2005.

He started as a global product manager at Microsoft Xbox. Then he was responsible for publishing games in companies such as 6waves and GREE. In recent years, he has been Managing Director of CVCapital, an investment bank that invested $981 million in Applovin and $148 million in Smaato.

Sergey Kovalenko
Sergey is the co—founder of the investment company Braavo Capital, which helps mobile companies raise funds for scaling advertising campaigns, as well as the co-founder of the software iTechArt Group.

Sergey has been working in the investment business since the beginning of the tenth, but in IT — since the beginning of the nineties.

Evgeny Maleev

Evgeny has a rich track record. He managed to work as a gaming journalist, at one time headed the editorial office of Gameland, was the head of marketing for Nival, Astrum and the gaming division Mail.Ru Group. Today he is the executive vice president of the investment fund Super.com .

Terms of the competition

Write questions for the round table on your page on the social network (the page should be “live”, and not made exclusively for the contest), sharing a link to this publication. IMPORTANT: The link must be active until June 19. In the comments under this material, write “I participate in the contest” and leave a link to your post.

We will announce the name of the winner after 18.00 on Monday, June 17, right there in the comments.

The won ticket is valid only for White Nights St. Petersburg 2019, you will not be allowed to attend another conference with it. Unfortunately, it is impossible to get the ticket price in money. If you bought a ticket before, and now you have won, you will not be able to return the money for the purchased ticket either, but with two tickets you can take someone with you!