Drive by DraftKings
VC Fund
Boston, United States
Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in SportsTech and Entertainment. Our mission is to push the frontier of new markets and categories revolutionizing sports, gaming and media. Founding partners include DraftKings, General Catalyst, Accomplice and Boston Seed Capital.
- Total investments:
- 26
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
- Fund size:
- $60M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Drive by DraftKings invests in
Stages Drive by DraftKings invests in
Countries Drive by DraftKings invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2.3M–$5M
- Pre-Seed
- $600k–$1.6M
- Series A
- $7M–$30M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 7 (27%)
- Software 5 (19%)
- Sports 4 (15%)
- FinTech 3 (12%)
- Analytics 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (46%)
- Series A 4 (15%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (8%)
- Series C 2 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 15 (58%)
- Israel 2 (8%)
- Singapore 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kiki Mills Johnston
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 188 | Find email | |
Meredith McPherron
CEO and Managing Partner
|
CEO and Managing Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Peter Blacklow
Co-Chairman and co-founder
|
Co-Chairman and co-founder | Total investments: 15 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| PvX Partners is a financial services platform that provides funding solutions and data intelligence tools primarily for consumer app and gaming companies, with a focus on supporting user acquisition strategies. The company offers non-dilutive financing through products such as PvX Capital, which enables businesses to access credit lines tied to marketing performance and repay based on generated revenue rather than fixed terms. Its platform also includes PvX Lambda, a data and analytics system that integrates with existing infrastructure to benchmark performance, analyze cohorts, and guide decision-making using real-time metrics. PvX Partners combines capital provision with market intelligence, using cohort-based evaluation and performance tracking to determine funding eligibility and optimize growth strategies. The company’s model involves sharing in the value generated from acquired users up to a predefined limit, aligning its returns with client performance while reducing reliance on equity financing. | $10.5M / Series A / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| PvX Partners is a financial services platform that provides funding solutions and data intelligence tools primarily for consumer app and gaming companies, with a focus on supporting user acquisition strategies. The company offers non-dilutive financing through products such as PvX Capital, which enables businesses to access credit lines tied to marketing performance and repay based on generated revenue rather than fixed terms. Its platform also includes PvX Lambda, a data and analytics system that integrates with existing infrastructure to benchmark performance, analyze cohorts, and guide decision-making using real-time metrics. PvX Partners combines capital provision with market intelligence, using cohort-based evaluation and performance tracking to determine funding eligibility and optimize growth strategies. The company’s model involves sharing in the value generated from acquired users up to a predefined limit, aligning its returns with client performance while reducing reliance on equity financing. | $4.7M / Seed / Dec 05, 2025 | ||
| Jump is a technology platform designed to personalize the fan experience and provide teams with new revenue opportunities. | $23M / Series A / Aug 12, 2025 | ||
| Ozlo Sleep is a science-driven sleep and audio technology company that supports and simplifies sleep rituals for clinical benefits, without the use of medication. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 22, 2024 | ||
| Fintech solution tailored for mobile game developers to create, publish, and scale real-money games. | $2.3M / Seed / Jun 24, 2024 | ||
| Jump is a technology platform designed to personalize the fan experience and provide teams with new revenue opportunities. | $30M / Series A / Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Spren helps fitness and wellness brands deliver a more personalized, engaging, and effective user experience. It assists in avoiding the perplexity and frustration of false plateaus. Spren measures small changes in body composition using evidence-based machine learning algorithms, empowering the quest to slow aging. The company is using a patentedimaging technology—simply snap a full-body selfie on the smartphone and let Spren go to work. | $11.3M / Seed / Oct 11, 2022 | ||
| VidMob is the world's leading platform for Intelligent Creative. We provide an end-to-end technology solution for all of a brand’s creative needs. It is an integrated platform combining AI-powered creative analytics with a production workflow system connected to a global network of expert creators. VidMob’s platform dramatically improves adcampaign ROI through actionable creative insights, faster creative turnaround, better performing ads and streamlined workflow. We are the only company in the world to receive a certified creative marketing partner badge from every major social and digital platform. A portion of every dollar VidMob receives is used to fund pro bono creative services for non-profits through the 501(c)(3) VidMob Gives. | $110M / Series D / Aug 17, 2022 | ||
| UnCaged Studios is pioneering the next generation of AAA, play-first web3 gaming. It leverages games OS to co-develop with and support game studios by providing core technical functionality, infrastructure, and live operations services. | $24M / Series A / Jul 14, 2022 | ||
| Nextiles builds a smart apparel platform that helps people exercise better, more safely, and more efficiently. The company pairs athletic apparel with an analytics system that identifies new insights about a persons movement.The company weaves and threads electrically conductive fibers to develop new types of wearable circuitry, through arepurposed sewing technology. The company has an expertise in electrical engineering and circuit design, giving the unique ability to merge fabrics and hardware to engineer new wearable platforms.Nextiles was founded on 2019 and is headquartered in New York, New York. | $5M / Seed / Jun 07, 2022 | ||
| See all 26 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Drive by DraftKings invest in?
Drive by DraftKings invests primarily in Gaming, Software and Sports startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 26 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Drive by DraftKings invest in?
Drive by DraftKings typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$5M at Seed, $600k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$30M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Drive by DraftKings's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Drive by DraftKings took part in.
How do I contact Drive by DraftKings?
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Who are the partners at Drive by DraftKings?
The team at Drive by DraftKings includes Kiki Mills Johnston (Managing Director), Meredith McPherron (CEO and Managing Partner) and Peter Blacklow (Co-Chairman and co-founder). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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