OK, how about this developer, https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Best+Cool+%2... . Their Ant Smasher games has over 20 million downloads. All their games combined likely have 1+ million DAU's.

Note, the post I commented on assumed that with 1 million DAU's that VC's would be "knocking down your doors" to fund a Series A.

With the example developer above, they could probably get some kind of funding (ie., seed funding from somewhere) but I highly doubt reputable VC's would be knocking down their doors to fund a Series A.

There's no way they have 1MM DAU. People play that once and then leave.

Likely. But we don't know which iOS/Android apps have 1MM DAUs, and so this makes this debate kind of pointless... unless developers share their stats.

There are lots of apps with 20+ million downloads (total), and if they're good apps they might be pushing 1MM DAUs (of course, tough to tell unless developer reveals that). All I'm saying is that some of them are hits and VC's are clamoring over, but some might be good lifestyle (or less scalable) businesses and VC's aren't "knocking over doors" to fund a Series A with them.

I'm just calling out the assumption that 1MM DAU = guaranteed Series A funding.

Come to think of it, I should retract what I said about most of them not being VC-fundable. I just don't know cause the stats aren't out there.

I have a file manager on my Android phone that has millions of downloads.

I'm pretty sure most users who download the app use it daily.

Do you think the app developers can get VC funding if they wanted to?

is it Astro?

They received VC funding from Kii Capital.

Astro went from the only decent file manager to the defacto worst. It's awful. So incredibly awful I wanted to write this comment in case any Astro dev sees it. For shame.