# Andover Ventures

> Andover Ventures is a VC fund backing Gaming, Sports and Apps. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/andover-ventures/
- Website: https://www.andovervc.com/

Andover Ventures is a VC fund focused on Gaming and Sports. Andover is a venture fund investing in early-stage software-enabled start-ups ranging from Pre-seed to Series A.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 6 | 46% |
| Sports | 4 | 31% |
| Apps | 3 | 23% |
| Mobile Apps | 3 | 23% |
| Video Games | 3 | 23% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 31% |
| Series A | 1 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 77% |
| Australia | 2 | 15% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lantern Finance | Lantern Finance is a financial services and technology company that specializes in crypto-backed loans and staking services. Their platform allows users to leverage their cryptocurrency holdings as collateral to access cash loans, offering an alternative to selling assets. Additionally, Lantern provides staking services, enabling users toparticipate in blockchain networks' proof-of-stake mechanisms and earn rewards. The company emphasizes security by partnering with BitGo for asset custody and maintains regulatory compliance as a registered Money Services Business with FinCEN. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 28, 2025 |  |
| 10six Games | 10Six was a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy (MMORTS) game. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2024 |  |
| Basketball Forever | Basketball Forever provides basketball fanatics with latest news inside and outside the hard court. It also provides commentary, design, videos and analysis, straight to the palm of your hand. Basketball Forever operates under Forever Network. | $4M | Series A | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Season Share | There are 3.2M season tickets holders in the U.S. and 70% of season ticket holders share their tickets with other fans. We are the only mobile app that enables fans to buy, group, split and share season tickets to live sporting events. Season Share was founded by three sports fans with deep ties in tech, entertainment, sports and ticketing. Ourtechnology is ready to disrupt the stagnant ticketing industry, increasing team and league revenue while making the fan experience easier and more realistic for today’s consumer. Let’s change the game together. |  | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Attend | Attend is a mobile application that enables fans to buy, group, split, and share season tickets to live sporting events. Attend was founded by three sports fans with deep ties in tech, entertainment, sports, and ticketing. Attend is on a mission to disrupt the stagnant ticketing industry, increasing team, and league revenue while making the fanexperience easier and more realistic for today’s consumer. |  | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 |  |
| Epoxy.ai | We make sports viewing and gaming easy and fun for everyone |  | Seed | Jul 31, 2023 |  |
| Bebopbee | BebopBee crafts exceptional, emotive and enduring casual gaming experiences | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 07, 2023 |  |
| Unleashed Games | Unleashed Games, an AZ16-backed startup led by veteran game devs from Blizzard and other top brands, are developing Unleashed Realms, a consumer gaming platform that merges MMO style gameplay with highly customizable social spaces for players to interact. Realms leverages both genAI and deep human expertise to make MMO rapidly, cost-effectively, tocreate highly monetizable experiences that players love. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2023 |  |
| ThriveFantasy | ThriveFantasy is a daily fantasy sports and esports platform. | $4M | Series B | Nov 16, 2022 |  |
| Theia Studios | Theia Studios is a decentralized platform that focused on engaging strategy games. Their first developed game is a free-to-play 1v1 tactical strategy game that can best be described as a cross between League of Legends, Fire Emblem, and Chess. | $2.4M | Seed | Nov 09, 2022 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Andover Ventures invest in?

Andover Ventures invests primarily in Gaming, Sports and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Andover Ventures's check size?

Andover Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$7M at Seed and $1M–$2.5M 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 Andover Ventures participates in.

### When did Andover Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Andover Ventures closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 13 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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