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Peter Leahy starts venture capital firm for videos games/entertainment

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Video game industry veteran Peter Leahy has started a venture capital firm and is raising $20 million to invest in creative properties including video games, toys, TV shows and graphic novels.

According to Venture Wire, Incubation Venture Partners LLC will be the venture capital arm of Incubate Group Corp., which itself is an incubator for new media companies. Leahy is CEO of Incubate Group Corp. in San Francisco.

The fund will be called Azcatl Seed Capital Fund I and is expected to close April 1. For more information, go to www.incubategroup.com.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.