# Altered Ventures

> Altered Ventures is a VC fund in Valley Cottage backing Gaming and Software. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Valley Cottage, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/altered-ventures-llc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/AlteredVentures
- Website: http://www.altered.vc/

Altered Ventures is an early-stage seed venture capital fund that helps creators develop and publish video games, AR, and VR.The VC fund supports new projects with a focus on developers in and making games, augmented, and virtual reality for emerging markets and invests in developers with all the funds they need to make and publish their games,without the need to give up equity in the studio. However, developers will need to share revenue with the group.In 2016, Mario Valle founded the Silicon Valley, San Francisco-based firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $165k–$400k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Video Games | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| B2C | 1 | 13% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 4 | 50% |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mexico | 4 | 50% |
| Norway | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Czech Republic | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mario Valle | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mario-valle-reyes |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Darwin Now | Evolve your business in emerging markets with Darwin: the AI-powered SaaS platform that automates sales, collections, and deliveries | $165K | Pre-Seed | Jun 08, 2023 |  |
| KredFeed | KredFeed enables suppliers on supply chains to unlock their cash flow, by turning their receivables into instant cash, providing them the liquidity they need to scale their businesses; while supplying them with smart cash flow management and CFO tools. |  | Seed | Jan 14, 2023 |  |
| Leadsales | Commerce is being revolutionized throughout Latin America. Increasingly, SMBs are restructuring themselves to rely on online conversational platforms (like WhatsApp) as their primary channel for acquiring and servicing their clients. LeadSales is building the platform that will be the dominant operating system for this entire new industry - andwill help businesses manage all of their interactions with consumers ranging from conversational sales, CRM, to order fulfillment, even to payments. | $400K | Pre-Seed | Oct 31, 2022 |  |
| Victoria VR | Victoria VR is a blockchain-based VR metaverse that offers a multiplayer-online role-playing game, entertainment, and other activities. | $5.5M |  | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| Victoria VR | Victoria VR is a blockchain-based VR metaverse that offers a multiplayer-online role-playing game, entertainment, and other activities. | $5.5M | Seed | Nov 16, 2021 |  |
| SuperWorld | SuperWorld is building community in AR powered by the blockchain. We have built an AR Real Estate marketplace + Ad marketplace on the blockchain (superworldapp.com) and a social AR app which allows users to personalize the real world by adding anything anywhere in augmented reality with photos, videos, texts, and 3D objects, and share the ARexperience with their followers. |  |  | May 10, 2021 |  |
| Qapla Gaming | We help gaming creators grow their audience and build an engaging community |  |  | Jun 24, 2019 |  |
| Henchman & Goon | Henchman and Goon operates game development studio aimed at developing games for multiple platforms. The company's games are inspired by art and culture, have ancient puzzles, and are available for playstation, windows, linux, and other operating systems, enabling users to indulge in enjoyable and emotionally impactful games that leave alasting impression. | $400K |  | Apr 26, 2018 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Altered Ventures invest in?

Altered Ventures invests primarily in Gaming, Software and Video Games startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Mexico. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Altered Ventures's check size?

Altered Ventures typically joins rounds of $165k–$400k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Altered Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Altered Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Altered Ventures?

The team at Altered Ventures includes Mario Valle (Co-Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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