# Ancient8

> Ancient8 is a VC fund backing Gaming, Blockchain and Web3. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ancient8/?trk=ppro_cprof&originalSubdomain=vn
- Website: https://ancient8.gg/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ancient8.gg/

Ancient8 is a VC fund focused on Gaming and Blockchain. Ancient8 create a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that develops a platform to enable everyone to play and build the metaverse while earning rewards.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$10M |
| Series A | $5M–$15M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 3 | 38% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 38% |
| Web3 | 2 | 25% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 25% |
| Sports | 1 | 13% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

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

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 38% |
| Germany | 1 | 13% |
| Thailand | 1 | 13% |
| Singapore | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jenny Nguyen | Co-Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jenny-nguyen-10b3 |
| Thuat Nguyen | Core Contributor | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thuat-nguyen-9c32 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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". | $4M |  | Feb 03, 2025 |  |
| Alliance Games | Alliance Games provides the next level of decentralized Web3 gaming infrastructure hosting and data storage services for Web3 games, driven by permissionless community nodes. | $5M | Series A | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| 0XVM | 0xVM is a Infrastructure of rollup L2s in Bitcoin. And it's an EVM-compatible execution layer on Bitcoin. It brings Bitcoin to the next level by enabling Turing-complete smart contracts. 0xVM operates directly within Bitcoin's consensus layer, integrating an execution layer and a data consistency layer. By offering a platform forprogrammability on Bitcoin, 0xVM resonates with the BTC community's vision and principles and offers a scaling approach that enhances Bitcoin's utility while retaining its integrity. | $5.2M |  | Mar 01, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $15M | Series A | Nov 29, 2022 |  |
| MetaLend | MetaLend provider of a bank for NFT digital economy. | $5M | Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |
| Elumia | Elumia is a cash based game development company. Their games allow players to themselves in world zones, engaging in multiplayer adventures, quests, and fierce player battles with in game enemies and against other real time players. Their legends of elumia is a multiplayer online role playing game that allows players to gain full ownership of theirin game assets using revolutionary new mechanics. | $5M | Seed | Apr 14, 2022 |  |
| Metaverse Game Studios | Metaverse Game Studios is a leading blockchain game development studio. | $10M | Seed | Mar 14, 2022 |  |
| Delysium | Delysium is a playable AAA MMO web3 game. | $4M | Seed | Mar 13, 2022 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [PathDAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pathdao) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [UniX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/unix-5b23) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Good Games Guild](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/good-games-guild) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Ancient8 invest in?

Ancient8 invests primarily in Gaming, Blockchain and Web3 startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Ancient8's check size?

Ancient8 typically joins rounds of $4M–$10M at Seed and $5M–$15M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Ancient8 participates in.

### How do I contact Ancient8?

Public channels for Ancient8 include LinkedIn, the website linked on this profile and Facebook. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Ancient8?

The team at Ancient8 includes Jenny Nguyen (Co-Founder) and Thuat Nguyen (Core Contributor). 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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