# Duane Park

> Duane Park is a VC fund in New York backing Family and Gaming. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/duaneparknyc
- Website: http://duaneparknyc.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/duaneparknyc

Duane Park is a VC fund in New York focused on Family and Gaming. Duane Park specializes in providing custom planned events services. It primarily hosts events from bridal showers to retirement parties. Corporate clients include Millbank, American Express, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup.The company is available for daytime and evening hires for private events, photo and video shoots, celebrations,and corporate events.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Family | 1 | 20% |
| Gaming | 1 | 20% |
| Content | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Finance | 1 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 60% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anurag Bhargava | Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anurag-bhargava |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rooter | Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop. | $16M |  | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Woovly Shop Socially | Woovly, a social commerce platform for Tier 2,3 millennials driven by a creator community. Users at Woovly, discover & shop lifestyle products instantly via short video content created by micro/nano influencers. We pay cash incentives to the influencers whose content creates traction and sales. | $5M | Series A | Mar 05, 2022 |  |
| Rooter | Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop. | $25.1M | Series A | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Ummeed Housing Finance | Ummeed Housing Finance is a housing finance company that provides home loans and loan against property to lower and middle income families. The company aims to help people with informal incomes, who have limited access to organized finance and who constitute significant portion of the Indian population.Ummeed Housing Finance's servicesinclude issuance of home loans and loan against property to improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround time for customers, enabling low and middle income households to get access to affordable housing loans in an innovative and personalized manner. | $5.6M | Series B | May 22, 2017 |  |
| Ummeed Housing Finance | Ummeed Housing Finance is a housing finance company that provides home loans and loan against property to lower and middle income families. The company aims to help people with informal incomes, who have limited access to organized finance and who constitute significant portion of the Indian population.Ummeed Housing Finance's servicesinclude issuance of home loans and loan against property to improve operational efficiency and reduce turnaround time for customers, enabling low and middle income households to get access to affordable housing loans in an innovative and personalized manner. | $3.5M | Series A | Oct 17, 2016 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ADvantage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantage-sports-tech-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Capital A](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-a-5a4d) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Goal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/goal-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LEAD](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lead-sports-accelerator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lightbox](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightbox-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lok Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lok-capital-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Duane Park invest in?

Duane Park invests primarily in Family, Gaming and Content startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Duane Park?

The team at Duane Park includes Anurag Bhargava (Chairman). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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