PokerStars is run by Isai Scheinberg, a former IBM programmer, and his son Mark Scheinberg, although the company hired a chief executive in recent months.

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For example, we expanded into Spain in 2009, more than six months before our first investment, a seed round of 1.2 million euros from French VC ISAI.

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