Top 50 Gaming Startup Investors
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Gaming startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Gaming Startup Investors
Investor | Gaming investments |
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Animoca Brands | 76 |
BITKRAFT Ventures | 73 |
Blue Horizon Corporation | 56 |
Andreessen Horowitz | 56 |
Makers Fund | 56 |
AF Ventures | 49 |
Play Ventures | 48 |
District Ventures Capital | 46 |
Global Founders Capital | 45 |
LVP | 41 |
Initial Capital | 39 |
FJ Labs | 37 |
Galaxy Interactive | 37 |
Courtside Ventures | 35 |
CircleUp | 35 |
Kevin Lin | 34 |
Collaborative Fund | 34 |
1Up Ventures | 33 |
Greycroft | 33 |
SV Angel | 33 |
Shima Capital | 33 |
Index Ventures | 32 |
DSG Consumer Partners | 32 |
Alumni Ventures | 32 |
Griffin Gaming Partners | 31 |
AgFunder | 31 |
Sisu Game Ventures | 31 |
Lerer Hippeau | 30 |
Right Side Capital Management | 30 |
Kima Ventures | 29 |
Infinity Ventures Crypto | 28 |
Great Oaks Venture Capital | 28 |
Hashed | 28 |
Yield Guild Games | 27 |
East Ventures | 27 |
Capstone Partners Co., Ltd. | 27 |
Gaingels | 27 |
Konvoy | 26 |
Lever VC | 26 |
Khosla Ventures | 25 |
General Catalyst | 24 |
S2G Ventures | 24 |
Sustainable Food Ventures | 24 |
Poseidon Asset Management | 24 |
Mumbai Angels | 24 |
LD Capital | 24 |
Everblue Management | 23 |
Founders Fund | 23 |
Accel | 23 |
Upfront Ventures | 23 |
Animoca Brands, a Deloitte Tech Fast winner and ranked in the Financial Times list of High Growth Companies Asia-Pacific 2021, is a leader in digital entertainment, blockchain, and gamification that is working to advance digital property rights and contribute to the establishment of the open metaverse. The company develops and publishes a broadportfolio of products including the REVV token and SAND token; original games including The Sandbox, Crazy Kings, and Crazy Defense Heroes; and products utilizing popular intellectual properties including Disney, WWE, Snoop Dogg, The Walking Dead, Power Rangers, MotoGP™, and Formula E. It has multiple subsidiaries, including The Sandbox, Blowfish Studios, Quidd, GAMEE, nWay, Pixowl, Forj, Lympo, Grease Monkey Games, Eden Games, Darewise Entertainment, Notre Game, and TinyTap. Animoca Brands has a growing portfolio of more than 340 investments, including Colossal, Axie Infinity, OpenSea, Dapper Labs (NBA Top Shot), Yield Guild Games, Harmony, Alien Worlds, Star Atlas, and others. For more information visit www.animocabrands.com.
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Investment focus
- Other, Software, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Hong Kong, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.
- Colossal Biosciences — Extinction is a colossal problem facing the world. See how COLOSSAL, the de-extinction company, is developing the science that will save us, our planet and the species that inhabit it.
- Psychic VR Lab — Psychic VR Lab is a startup company that handles fashion VR and MR shopping service STYLY. They are creating a future where they will live in space.
We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Voicemod — Download now for FREE Voicemod a funny & scary voice changer app. A voice transformer and modifier with effects that makes you sound like a girl or a robot
- Latent Technology — Latent Technology builds the next-generation animation technology for virtual worlds.
- Methodical Games — Methodical Games is a newly formed studio built around a fundamental set of ideals.
Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a new Sustainable Food System that delivers outstanding returns for investors and the planet.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Food/Beverage, Science/Engineering
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- New School Foods — Whole-muscle, plant-based seafood
- Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.
- NuCicer — NuCicer is a crop genetics company expertise, pioneering ultra-high protein varieties of chickpea.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Financial
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
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- House of Blueberry — We are the leading fashion house in the metaverse, empowering self-expression through digital wearables. Now live on Roblox, Second Life, IMVU and more.
- Roboto Games — Founded by Curt Bererton, Mathilde Pignol and Vijay Myneni, Roboto Games is a small scrappy studio made up of plucky game industry vets who, despite common wisdom, cannot stop making games in San Francisco. We ascribe to the time tested Three Musketeers meets Voltron philosophy for making casual and mid-core games.
- Noodle Cat Games — Noodle Cat is an independent game studio on a mission to change the current standard of game development. The Noodle Cat team is committed to learning, collaborating, and pushing boundaries in a healthy, flexible working environment.
AF Ventures (formerly AccelFoods) is a venture capital fund investing in high-growth consumer product companies. Founded in 2014, AF Ventures has carved out a new space in the consumer industry, identifying challengers with strong fundamentals and providing the financing and resources needed to crea
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Food/Beverage, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States
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- Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra is the first military-native performance wellness company, pioneering a user-driven performance personal care and nutrition organization developed within the U.S. military community. Powered by the insight generated through social manufacturing including direct collaboration with its core community of 1,000 U.S. military active dutyservice members, the company delivers performance goods with unprecedented responsiveness and accuracy for those who serve and for the benefit of all. Designed to support and enhance today's ultra-active lifestyle and engineered with critically relevant innovation and stress-tested in the field, the products include first-to-market technologies and formulas that are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. Bravo Sierra is built around a revenue share model contributing 5% of all sales to the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program, which offers a complete range of community support and quality of life programs for members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families, retirees, and veterans.
- Koia — Drink Koia Online
- Yumi — Yumi - This is Baby Food Now
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Nefta — One platform to build, launch and operate web3 games
- Tower Pop — Tower Pop is a mobile gaming industry that focuses on tower defense. Tower Pop was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Finland.
- Scenario — Community-led library of experiences providing Metaverse user-generated content. Capture, edit and share 3D experiences from your phone.
Venture capital funding for Canadian entrepreneurs. District Ventures Capital is led by Arlene Dickinson and invests in innovative food & health sector companies.
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Investment focus
- Food/Beverage, Gaming, Manufacturing
- Pre-Seed, Funding Round, Seed
- Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- NadaMoo — Grab a spoon, you're going to want to try this deliciously dairy-free coconut milk ice cream. Dairy-free, Gluten-Free, Plant-Based, Vegan, Non-GMO, Faire Trade, B-Corp. Our pints are filled with 100% goodness.
- Just Vertical — Discover the best indoor hydroponic growing system. With Just Vertical, you can easily grow your own vegetables indoors. Shop our beautifully-designed modern hydroponic system!
- PocketPills — Pocketpills is Canada's best online pharmacy that allows you to conveniently order online, refill, or consult with an online pharmacist and offers free shipping and low prices.
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Transcend Therapeutics — Transcend Therapeutics is a biotechnology company discovering, developing and delivering the next generation of psychoactive compounds focused on patient access to create a world where people no longer suffer with neuropsychiatric disease.
- Tranch — Tranch brings payment flexibility to B2B by offering expense financing services for fast-growing businesses. With Tranch, businesses can spread bulky expenses and take control of the cash flow on their terms and prioritise spend on growth, without compromising on the tools they need. Tranch transforms how businesses pay with Grow Now, Pay Later.
- Keyzy — Keyzy's mission is to unlock home ownership in the UK. Our rent-to-own solution turns home ownership from a dream into a reality.
LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision.They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how.They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Pnkfrg Studios — Pnkfrg Studios is a mobile gaming studio startup designing games for the Lightning Network on Bitcoin.
- Bigblue — Bigblue's technology allows brands to sell more with effortless e-commerce logistics, prime-like deliveries, branded tracking e-mails and a returns portal.
- Dorian — Turn your story into a game and earn money with no coding!
Initial Capital is an investor in seed and early-stage technology companies with a focus on games, consumer services & technology enablers.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Zebedee — We make the points you earn in games matter. By harnessing the power of Bitcoin, we attach real-world value to points, scores and economies in virtual worlds.
- Yoko Robotics — Yoko is the affordable personal robot chef that enables you to eat healthier, save money, and spend your valuable time on the more important things in life.
- Pok Pok — Pok Pok is a studio centred around creative, play-based learning experiences for kids. Explore, create, tinker, learn and grow with open-ended toys in the Pok Pok Playroom.
FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Financial
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ledge — Ledge is a command center for payments built for finance teams operating at scale.Ledge empowers finance teams with tools to centralize their payments data, get a real-time payments snapshot, automate multi-way reconciliation, identify problem transactions, accelerate their investigations, and dramatically lower the risk of losses, all withoutany engineering support.Finance teams regain control of payments and are freed to focus on strategic business impact, not manual payments work.
- Dalia — Dalia's recruitment marketing automation converts your lost job seeker traffic to give you more qualified applicants and lower your job advertising spend.
- Freemodel — Freemodel handles the financing, design, construction and management of pre-sales home renovation. In-person project directors are assigned to each project and work with agents directly. No upfront payments, Freemodel is paid when the home sells.
Play the Future. Galaxy Interactive is a leading sector-focused VC investing in interactive entertainment, at the intersection of content, social, finance and technology.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Other
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Finland, India
Portfolio highlights
- Protopia AI — Protopia AI enables you to use AI and machine learning to extract insights from your actual data without exposing sensitive information in identifiable form.
- ForeVR Games — Virtual Reality games you want to play forever. Bowl forever in ForeVR Bowl! Join our discord community of bowlers.Game on!
- Monoly — Trust network of communication and collaboration for enterprise
Courtside Ventures is the leading early-stage fund focused on Sports, Lifestyle, and Gaming. We invest in passionate entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Sports, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- Kratos Studios — Kratos is the intellectual property owner of the gaming DAO IndiGG. Kratos is also an active investor in the global web3 gaming.
- Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
- Smile Identity — Smile Identity is the best onboarding, identity verification, user authentication, and digital KYC service for Africa.
Learn more about CircleUp Growth Partners, what we look for in early-stage consumer brands, and the brands we have funded.
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Investment focus
- Food/Beverage, Gaming, Consumer Goods
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Partake Foods — Gluten-free, vegan, non-GMO and free of the top 14 allergens, our super delicious cookies are made with real, healthy, and safe ingredients that everyone can share and enjoy. Choose from multiple flavors including carrot oat, chocolate chip, double chocolate, and sweet potato millet.
- Koia — Drink Koia Online
- Partake Brewing — Partake Brewing is the craft non-alcoholic beer brand that focuses on flavor, health, socializing, and inclusivity for people who choose not to drink alcohol whether as a need or increasingly as a lifestyle choice.
Lin is the COO of Twitch, the world’s leading social video platform and community for gamers. He was instrumental in the 2011 launch of the platform when he joined Justin.tv in 2008. His role included attracting the site’s largest broadcasters and building out the partnership team among other activities which have helped grow the Twitch brand.Currently more than 100 million gamers gather every month on Twitch to broadcast live video, watch and chat about gaming, making the platform an industry leader.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, Taiwan
Portfolio highlights
- Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
- Oh Baby Games — Future of crypto gaming. Building a platform to enable all developers to utilise blockchain.
- Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
Collab Fund is a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Financial
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, South Korea
Portfolio highlights
- Floodbase — Floodbase is an end-to-end flood data solution for designing and triggering global parametric flood coverage.
- wasted* — wasted* transforms human waste into effective, safe, and sustainable fertilizers. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.
- PayEm — PayEm helps finance teams get their job done and done quickly by offering control, transparency, and automation to company spending
1Up Ventures is an investment firm that specializes in game developers. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Methodical Games — Methodical Games is a newly formed studio built around a fundamental set of ideals.
- Noodle Cat Games — Noodle Cat is an independent game studio on a mission to change the current standard of game development. The Noodle Cat team is committed to learning, collaborating, and pushing boundaries in a healthy, flexible working environment.
- Ruckus Games — Ruckus Games is to create unparalleled player experiences through style interactivity and emergence.
Venture capital and technology investments
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Investment focus
- Software, Media and Entertainment, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Stakeholder Labs — Stakeholder Labs builds enterprise software to help companies measure and increase retail investor engagement. Its flagship product, Roundtable, enables companies to verify shareholders, measure their customer loyalty and offer unique shareholder rewards. To learn more about Stakeholder Labs, please visit stakeholderlabs.com.
- Craft.co — Craft is a machine-learning powered data and analytics platform building the “Source of Truth” on companies and mapping the global economy. The company organizes financial, operating and human capital data from thousands of sources to provide comprehensive, up-to-date sector and company profiles, ranging from early-stage to the largest companies inthe world, with analytics and tools such as signal alerts, trends and benchmarking.
- Howdy — Howdy takes a human-centered approach to finding top software engineering talent in Latin America and pairing them with innovative U.S. tech employers. Howdy takes care of talent sourcing, payroll, local HR benefits, equipment, and ongoing mentorship to help tech companies build strong long-term engineering teams and foster the engineeringcommunity in LATAM.Formerly known as Austin Software, Howdy is headquartered in Austin, TX, and has six local offices in Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Medellin, Cordoba, and Santiago. The company raised a $13M Series A funding round in August 2022 led by Greycroft.
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund founded by Ron Conway. SV Angel provides seed investment and advice to early stage companies focused on Internet software.SV Angel takes a portfolio approach to seed investing. We differ from a traditional venture capital firm by not taking board seats and investing a larger number of companies. Weleverage a best in class relationship network to be the valley's human router and help startups with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice. Ron pioneered this approach over 20 years ago and SV Angel still employs it today. Over the last 25 years the firm and partners have invested and advised companies such as Facebook, Google, PayPal, Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Twitter, SnapChat, Square, Cloudera and many more.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, IT
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.
- Method Financial — Method makes it easy for developers to embed debt repayment on their apps.
- Architect — Architect gives traders customizable infrastructure that reimagines access to international markets for digital assets. Building institutional-grade infrastructure to link different crypto venues across centralized and decentralized exchanges is one of the project's goals.
Shima Capital is an investment fund that focuses on supporting cutting-edge blockchain startups. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Investment focus
- Other, Financial, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 3RM — Verified contact at any decentralized organization. Manage new business, partnerships, and engagement across organizations like never before.
- Monad — Monad brings true performance as a new EVM L1 blockchain. Fast, powerful, efficient. Built for developers.
- Orb Labs — Orb Labs is developing cross-chain messaging protocols and omnichain applications for both developers and consumers.
Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, IT
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Wiz — Organizations of all sizes and industries use Wiz to rapidly identify and remove the most critical risks in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes so they can build faster and more securely.
- Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API
- Upollo — Turn repeated trials, account sharing and more into happy paying customers
We are DSG Consumer Partners - India & Southeast Asia's leading consumer-only venture capital fund. We partner with founders in the region to build world-class consumer brands.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Food/Beverage, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- 82°E — With 82°E, I hope to inspire all of us to connect with our truest, most authentic selves through regular and humble self-care practices. The first step in that direction is our line of skincare products, which have been meticulously sourced, meticulously crafted, and clinically tested so you can create simple, joyful, and effective daily rituals tocare for your skin's health.
- Supertails — Shop for pet food, accessories, grooming essentials and more. Book online vet consultation and online training for your pets. Shop for all your pet needs at supertails.com
- YOU (Youvit) — Vitamin YOUVIT menawarkan vitamin lengkap untuk kebutuhan sehari-hari kamu mulai dari Multivitamin, Omega-3 untuk dewasa dan anak-anak hingga vitamin Kecantikan dan Kolagen. Semua vitamin halal dan bersertifikat BPOM.
Alumni Ventures offers diversified venture portfolios to accredited investors into highly competitive deals that individuals typically do not have access to on their own.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, IT
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
Griffin Gaming Partners is a leading venture capital firm singularly focused on investing in the global gaming market.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Other
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Hardball Games — Welcome to Hardball Games - an interactive studio based in Brighton. We create innovative, cross-platform, multiplayer games.
- Modl.ai — Get an army of AI and ML bots that play, grow, and learn.
- Epic League — Epic League is a company specializing in Online RPG and blockchain ecosystem.
AgFunder invests in impactful companies that can positively transform the world's food system. Founded in 2013, AgFunder manages a portfolio of over 50 companies across four funds from offices in Silicon Valley and Singapore. Through its media platform AFN, it has built a global ecosystem of over 90,000 subscribers.
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Investment focus
- Agriculture/Farming, Science/Engineering, Food/Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Future Fields — Future Fields Cellular Agriculture: Serum-Free Growth Media Supplements and Recombinant Proteins - Optimized for the Future of Food.
- Aquaconnect — Aquaconnect was founded in 2017 as a full-stack aquaculture technology venture to offer data-driven farm advisory solutions and market place solutions to Shrimp and Fish farmers. As a part of promoting sustainable farming practices in aquaculture ecosystem, we have launched an Artificial Intelligence farm advisor 'FarmMOJO' - a friendlyfarm companion. FarmMOJO's data intelligence improves farm productivity and connects farmers with aquaculture industry stakeholders under its market place. Aquaconnect works with about 3000 farmers in Indian states of Andhra, Tamilnadu, and Gujrat to improve their farm revenues through technology intervention.
- Eion — Eion removes atmospheric CO2, permanently and verifiably, with enhanced rock weathering on soil
Sisu Game Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused 100% on games. We set up shop in 2014 to support the most promising founders in the industry. Sisu has deep roots in the Nordic region, but our network of founders is fully global.The Sisu team consists of Samuli, Paul, Erik, Kalle, Moaffak, Kadri, and Jere - all of whom haveextensive backgrounds in the game industry and startup circles, both as entrepreneurs and investors. We've founded and built sixteen game companies since the early 90s and had several successful exits. Apart from funding companies, the team uses their expertise to act as a studio builder. Individual founders are supported in building their team, honing their product strategy and in gathering the right group of investors.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Software, Hardware
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Finland, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Unagi — Collect your favorite football players and pick your best 11 every week!
- Multiscription — Multiscription is a cross-product subscription service. Introducing Unleashd, the first in-game and cross-publisher subscription service for free-to-play games.
- Esports Coaching Academy — ECA's software solution consists of an educational hub and a SaaS solution that provides exercises and complete programming for esports clubs and coaches.
Lerer Hippeau is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New York City. As founders and operators ourselves, we see returns in relationships
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Disclo — Collect, verify, and manage reasonable accommodation requests with our secure health disclosure system.
- Goldenset Collective — Goldensetsupport creators by becoming equity partners in their growing and evolving businesses, with the collective goal of creating long-term enterprise value truly owned by the creator. We believe that creators are more than just "influencers" who can be rented like billboards by other companies and brands but are also the founders ofhigh-growth start-ups with Fortune 500 potential.
- Small Door — Veterinary care reimagined. Small Door Veterinary's membership model offers best-in-class personalized & convenient pet health care in NYC, Boston and DC
Right Side Capital Management is a venture capital firm that helps startups build their company. It invests exclusively in the pre-seed round of technology startups and makes 75-100 investment per year. The firms prefers to invest in diversified technology sectors such as the internet and cloud companies.RSCM was established in 2010 and is basedin San Francisco, California.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data and Analytics, IT
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Benefitbay — Our ICHRA administration platform includes real-time plan modeling and a best-in-class premium payment solution. All backed by direct, human support.
- Qeepsake — The easiest way to capture and preserve memories about your child or pregnancy.
- LiveFreely — Track your health patterns in a modern way with BUDDY. BUDDY is an app that runs on your loved one's smartwatch. It tracks your all-day activities.
Kima Ventures is one of the world's most active early-stage investors, investing in 2 to 3 startups per week all over the world; providing founders with funding, network, and support for them to reach the next steps of their journey.The firm invests from seed to Series A, mostly as lead investor but also working alongside other investors;backing ambitious founders who work hard to build awesome things that more and more people use everyday. The company helps them to build a great team, to learn very quickly, to keep the right focus and execute towards growth.Kima takes pride of itself in working side-by-side with entrepreneurs. They claim to understand that fundraising is only one step in the company’s journey, that’s why they take quick decisions and make the fundraising process as smooth as possible so the founders can get back to the work of building their business. Kima considers itself not only an investor, but a network of founders and experts sharing a pay it forward mindset.Headquartered in Paris with an office in London, the company was founded and backed by Xavier Niel, founder of Iliad and supporter of entrepreneurs through such projects as 42, Station F and 101projets. Over the last 5 years Kima has invested in over 400 startups in 24 different countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, IT
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Crew — Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.
- Crew.work — All-in-one recruiting platform that helps you hire the A players your moonshot mission needs.
- Dotfile — Dotfile is the Compliance Orchestration Platform for Fintechs. Streamline KYC & KYB and scale AML/CFT due diligences over +200 countries.
Who we are We are investors and entrepreneurs helping define the next generation of Blockchain startups. Our Focus Passionate founders. Disruptive models. Borderless markets. Exponential effects. Our Geography Starting from...
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Investment focus
- Other, Software, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Cedro Finance — An Omnichain Liquidity Protocol that connects fragmented liquidity across chains for greater capital efficiency.
- Kingdomverse — Kingdomverse is a dynamic, open-world metaverse that allows players to form guilds, build, battle and conquer the lands. It is the first metaverse to combine a 3D virtual world with Real-time Strategy (RTS) with casual mobile games.
- Fungify — Fungify is a non-custodial NFT index and algorithmic lending protocol that enables instant NFT sales, immediate NFT-backed loans, and the creation of a yield-bearing NFT index token. Fungify solves the most difficult problems at the intersection of NFTs and DeFi with a small set of elegant primitives.
Great Oaks is an early-stage venture investment firm that invests in seed and series a investments in tech-based startups.
It was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York.
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Investment focus
- Software, Commerce/Shopping, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Passthrough — Save time and frustration with a seamless online experience that makes it easy to invest in private funds.
- Kinspire — Kinspire Health | Child Occupational Therapy
- Oula Health — Oula is modern maternity care that combines the best obstetrics and midwifery care in New York to deliver an evidence-based and personalized pregnancy experience in NYC.
Hashed is a global, early stage venture fund focused on backing founders who are pioneering the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Hashed is based in Seoul and San Francisco.
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Investment focus
- Other, Software, Financial
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, Singapore, South Korea
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- Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
- Aura Network — Aura Network is a scalable, agile and effortless Layer-1 blockchain with a comprehensive ecosystem built to accelerate global NFTs adoption.
- Glip.gg — Gaming tools for the future.
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.
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- Gaming, Other, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Vietnam, Australia
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- Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
- Thirdverse — Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.
- Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
East Ventures is an early stage venture capital (VC) focused on Southeast Asia, Indonesia & Japan. Success cases include Tokopedia, Traveloka, and Mercari.
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- Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Japan, Indonesia, Singapore
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- Linda Pesa — Linda Pesa a provider of business management apps for African SMEs enables owners to manage effectively and collect credit information.
- Peris.ai — Perisai's mission is to connect organizations/companies and independent IT security researchers all over the world under one platform with one goal, to provide a safer digital environment.
- Komunal — Komunal is a financial technology-based company that provides Peer-to-Peer Lending services in Indonesia which helps create relationships between potential SME and funders to support economic growth in Indonesia.
Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies operating in the Information technology, wireless technology, architecture, pharmaceutical, internet, online game, software, solid state disk, and IP television sectors. It primarily invests in China and South Korea, with a focus in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Thefirm prefers to exit its investments through a trade sale. Capstone Partners was founded in 2008 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.Capstone Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs seeking success with fresh ideas. Capstone Partners values the funds of union investors better than our own, working for the interests of investors and following the objective of the investments.
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- Software, Mobile, Gaming
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- South Korea, United States, Finland
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- Aniai — Aniai develops a robotic kitchen based on its core robot technology to design/control robots. Its robots are further reinforced by its unique cognitive technology with artificial intelligence(AI). With these technologies, Aniai presents a shining solution for quick-service restaurants as the robotic kitchen can accelerate DigitalTransformation(DX).
- N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
- Noutecompany — As the non-face-to-face academic environment becomes more common due to COVID-19, the demand for content for tablet writing apps is rapidly increasing around the world. Webudding is a digital stationery content C2C platform that targets this demand and has a vision to grow into the world's largest commerce and community platform in tabletcontent based on the various contents being sourced from Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States, etc.Webudding is a web-based digital stationery service for content for tablet writing apps, with categories such as diaries, planners, notebooks, and sticker images used in tablet writing. Currently, Webudding has 1,300 sellers (1,000 domestic and 300 overseas) providing 12,000 content products and 100,000 MAUs., being the largest digital stationery in Asia. We try to go to the global market to target 1 billion tablet users worldwide.
Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with diverse talent and capital pipelines and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within privateboards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter of the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology to B2B, healthcare, and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- HUSSLUP — Build an industry network. HUSSLUP enables creators in media and entertainment to build a diverse global community through personal profiles with verified credits and vouches and encrypted creative samples.
- Get Spiffy — On-demand car cleaning technology and services company with the mission to redefine the car washing experience everywhere.
- Bento — Create a beautiful page to show your audience everything you are, create, and sell in one link. Designed in Berlin.
Konvoy Ventures is a thesis driven venture capital firm. We invest in the platforms and technologies at the frontier of gaming.
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- Gaming, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Sweden
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- Mino Games — Mino Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming studio that produced the top 50 grossing mobile game Mino Monsters, with over 13 million downloads. We create deeply engaging, widely appealing games for millions of fans. We’re currently building our world class development studio in Montreal.We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists andanalysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. We are funded by the best angel investors, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world.Our third and latest game, Cat Game, has already hit the App Store’s Top 100 Grossing Chart in Canada. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch it by February 2019.We are looking today to grow the team and looking for world class ambitious talent to come join us on the journey, to develop and support this newest title into a global success on both iOS and Android, and help us with future projects as we rapidly grow.
- Carry1st — Carry1st develops and publishes enriching mobile games and content apps for African consumers.
- Spark — Spark operates as a digital studio to create, inspire, and play with others.
Lever VC is a U.S.-Hong Kong venture capital fund founded by Managing Partner Nick Cooney and investing in early stage companies in the alternative protein sector (plant-based and “clean”/cell-based meat, egg and dairy companies). Lever VC operates globally, with offices in Hong Kong and the U.S. and staff in the US, Hong Kong, Europe, andIsrael. Entrepreneurs and startups interested in connecting with Lever VC about possible investment can reach the team and submit information about their company at http://www.levervc.com.Managing Partner Nick Cooney is the Co-Founder and former Managing Trustee of New Crop Capital, a private venture capital trust vehicle investing in the alternative protein space, and is Co-Founder of the Good Food Institute, the world’s largest non-governmental organization working to grow the alternative protein space. The General Partners at Lever VC have deployed over $1.5 billion in capital over the past decade across a variety of sectors, including over thirty deals in the alternative protein space.
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- Gaming, Food/Beverage, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, China, Brazil
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- Bond Pet Foods — We make vegan and protein-rich pet food and treats formulated by board-certified veterinary nutritionists.
- CellX — Creating a sustainable and humane future through cellular agriculture
- Melt&Marble — Melt&Marble, formerly known as Biopetrolia, was founded patent holding firm for co-founder Professor Jens Nielsen’s research group.
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems. The firm provides venture assistance and strategic advice to entrepreneurs working on breakthrough technologies.With over $15b assets under management, the firm focuses on a range of areas including consumer, enterprise, education,advertising, financial services, semiconductors, health, big data, agriculture, food, sustainable energy, and robotics. Khosla Ventures is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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- Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Astrus — Astrus fully automates analog layout using AI without disrupting your workflow.
- Sonocharge Energy — Sonocharge energy is developing a platform technology that enables a battery to charge. This technology energizes a range of markets such as transportation electric vehicles, e-mobility, electric bikes, scooters, aerospace, electric airplane, and drones.
- Calimero Network — Calimero Network is a blockchain infrastructure that helps clients in controlling data. Calimero Network was founded in 2022 and was headquartered in London.
Investing in powerful, positive change that endures
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- Software, Internet, IT
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- Finch — Finch is the API to access payroll and HR systems. We allow admins to connect their company in a compliant and secure manner to applications. Finch integrates across providers enabling developers to access a previously closed system and are at the source of truth for employee data and money flow. Our API powers use cases across lending, insurance,benefits, FP&A, and HR applications.
- Puzzle — Puzzle is a Red Hat Certified Cloud Provider.
- Chaos Labs — Chaos Labs is a fully automated on-chain economic security system that allows crypto protocols to optimize risk management and capital efficiency while safeguarding user funds. Chaos Labs offers a more secure and safe operating environment for crypto protocols. Chaos Labs uses technology and risk management expertise to help protocols navigate theoften volatile crypto markets and make informed decisions. The platform is currently available for protocols on the Ethereum network, with plans to expand to other blockchains such as Terra, NEAR, and Polygon in the future.
S2G Ventures is is a multi-stage venture fund investing in food and agriculture. We're harnessing the power of food innovation to create better outcomes for people and the planet.
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- Food/Beverage, Gaming, Science/Engineering
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada, Israel
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- EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.
- ReelData AI — ReelData AI provides artificially intelligent monitoring for finned fish aquaculture. It delivers weight distributions, feeding analysis, health analysis, and growth analysis
- Sound Agriculture — Sound Agriculture is creating a more agile and resilient food system with innovative on-demand crop solutions.
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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- Gaming, Food/Beverage, Biotechnology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, India, Germany
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- Atlantic Fish Co — Developing sustainable, cultivated seafood using cellular agriculture
- Thrilling Foods — Thrilling Foods is a plant-based bacon manufacturer that produces plant-based bacon and hickory smoked plant-based bacon.
- Hoxton Farms — Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing real animal fat – without animals. The company combines cell biology and mathematical modelling to produce cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.
Home of the pioneer cannabis hedge fund, focusing solely on marijuana and hemp.
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- Health Care, Food/Beverage, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States
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- Happy Cabbage Analytics — Happy Cabbage Analytics is a revenue optimization toolkit for cannabis retailers. Our products improve your returns from marketing, inventory management, and business operations.
- Komplyd — Komplyd is an enterprise-class cannabis technology platform that manages risk and compliance easily. Komplyd’s API provides enriched data, increasing the team’s productivity. It provides real-time and accurate compliance updates. It is a common data model and a single endpoint that empowers the team to rapidly deliver cannabis compliance solutionsin days.
- Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
Mumbai Angels Network is a sector-agnostic, new age, early-stage, venture investment platform with a diverse membership base, spanning the globe. Today, the network is 600+ members strong, across 70 locations all over the world. They have a 170+ strong portfolio with over 70 exits and next rounds of investments.
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- Software, Gaming, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- India, United States, Singapore
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- RuKart — RuKart goal is to create a farm ecosystem that is both economically successful and environmentally sustainable. RuKart improves income, Reduces input costs, and Creates micro-clusters.
- EUME — World's 1st Massager Backpack by EUME. A wide range of backpacks products, face masks and umbrellas. Propine, Wave, Barret, Sapphire, GenX, Ease and Move. Protect+ 95, Protect+ Pro 95, Official RCB Masks, Official CSK Masks.
- STAGE — Indian languages content platform for artist led entertainment, such as poetry, comedy and storytelling etc.
LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.
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- Other, Software, Financial
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
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- Arcade2earn — Arcade2earn is the GameFi platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn access to the ecosystem.
- MM3 NFT — MM3 NFT is a social NFT platform for visualizing DIDs and dressing up.
- Matterverse — Matterverse is a leading platform and the first of its kind where brands can create and deploy immersive virtual stores and showrooms on their website without writing a single line of code. Matterverse has built our own proprietary no-code 3D store creation tool to make the creation process for brands as simple as stacking LEGOs. Our advancedcloud-accelerated rendering and streaming allows customers to shop online just as in real life, accessible on any device, and as easy as clicking a link.We aim to become the infrastructure for virtual shopping in the metaverse era and for truly interactive, immersive, and embodied e-commerce.We are just getting started in transforming how people shop and interact with online. Join us to bring the new reality, experiential e-commerce, to everyone.
Everblue Management is a family office for the hedge fund managers.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Sports, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, Germany
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- House of Blueberry — We are the leading fashion house in the metaverse, empowering self-expression through digital wearables. Now live on Roblox, Second Life, IMVU and more.
- Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
- Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Freeform — Freeform simplifies metal printing at any scale for all industries. Parts as a service to help you go from idea to production in days.
- Chronosphere — Chronosphere is the only observability platform that puts you back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud-native complexity, delivering increased business confidence.
- SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
First partner to exceptional teams everywhere
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- Kratos Studios — Kratos is the intellectual property owner of the gaming DAO IndiGG. Kratos is also an active investor in the global web3 gaming.
- Chronicle — The modern format of storytelling
- Beek — Beek is building the top audio platform in Latin America. 10/10 people you see on the streets with headphones, will be listening on Beek to the best audiobooks, podcasts, meditations, and any audio content that they like. There will be a Netflix for Spoken word audio for the 480M+ native Spanish Speakers, and Beek is the team building it.
Upfront Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. We invest in technology businesses across digital media, SaaS, consumer internet and retail innovation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Bionaut Labs — We developed microscale robots to deliver biologics or small molecule therapies locally to targeted disease areas to help patients suffering from severe brain disorders.
- Heroic Story — Choose your Path. Brave the Scar. Seek your Fortune.
- Ayble Health — Ayble is your digital guide to better gut health.
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