Death by AI had 20 million players in its first three months.
Death by AI had 20 million players in its first three months.
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Little Umbrella makes the funding rain after success of Death by AI social game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Little Umbrella, an emerging pioneer in AI-powered social games, has raised $2 million in funding after the success of its Death by AI social game.

Investors include Venture Reality Fund Reality Fund (VRF), a16z speedrun, Mark Pincus’s Workplay Ventures, Ubiquoss Investment, Disrupt.com, Breakpoint Ventures, GFR Fund, and angel investors Matt Bilbey and Ryan Peterson. Death by AI had 20 million players in its first three months.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.