# Eden Chen

> Eden Chen is a seed investor at Pragma Platform (Los Angeles) backing Gaming and Video Games. See 16 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pragma Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pragma-eeb6)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 16
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edechen/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/edenchen
- Website: https://x.com/edenchen

Eden Chen is a seed investor at Pragma Platform in Los Angeles focused on Gaming and Video Games. Founder & CEO of Pragma, Fishermen Labs

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.2M–$5.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.1M–$1.6M |
| Series A | $15M–$31M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 6 | 38% |
| Video Games | 6 | 38% |
| PC Games | 3 | 19% |
| Online Games | 3 | 19% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 69% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 19% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 75% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| welevel | welevel aim is to craft spectacular gaming experiences, designed by players, for players and they push the limits of Unrel Engine 5 to merge thrill, exploration, and impressive construction features. | $5.7M | Seed | Mar 06, 2025 |  |
| Live Aware Labs | Live Aware is on a mission to equip game developers of all sizes with new tools to transform community sentiment into actionable insights - live, and at scale. Live Aware gives developers the ability to bring their games to market faster and better aligned with audience expectations, leading to greater financial success.Live Aware is an feedbackmanagement platform designed for game developers to seamlessly capture, analyze, and surface real-time player feedback. This comprehensive solution streamlines the entire feedback process through all stages of development - from internal build reviews and creative direction, to large-scale external playtesting. | $4.8M | Seed | Oct 16, 2024 |  |
| Popularium | Popularium was founded by an all-star team of gaming industry veterans responsible for the largest asset-based games and platforms in history—such as Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, the Halo franchise, and Xbox Live.Popularium started from a simple idea that we shared: What would games look like if they involved thecommunity from an early stage? What if this community had the tools to impact the narrative and create assets of real value from the game? | $2M | Seed | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Kaedim | Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today. | $15M | Series A | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Brain Jar Games | Brain Jar Games is a new worldwide studio comprised of AAA professionals dedicated to creating bold and bright games that players want to share. | $6.7M | Seed | Mar 07, 2024 |  |
| Barnyard Games | Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 14, 2023 |  |
| Wand App | Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas. | $4.2M | Seed | Aug 23, 2023 |  |
| Windup Minds | Windup Minds is a game studio focused on creating VR and MR virtual pet experiences. The company runs a gaming studio that aims to bring virtual pet games to market. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Aug 07, 2023 |  |
| Gardens | Founded by designers of such award-winning indie titles as Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Dustforce, Blaseball, and more, Gardens Interactive is a game studio focused on the future of online play, growing lush, living spaces that need to be cared for by their communities, and fostering meaningful, memorable stories between players around theworld. | $31.3M | Series A | May 31, 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 |  |

10 of 16 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Transcend.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/transcend-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Upfront Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/upfront-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [A16Z GAMES Speedrun](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-games) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Pragma Platform

VC Fund · Culver City, United States

Pragma is a “backend game engine” that enables multiplayer and social games. Pragma provides developers full extensibility, visibility and scalability. Our platform is made up of 5 interconnected applications: accounts & social, payments, player data, telemetry, and game loop. Pragma is built by engineering leaders that built platforms for someof the largest live service games like League of Legends, Valorant, Plants vs Zombies 2, and Eve Online.

1 contacts available at Pragma Platform.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eden Chen | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eden-chen |

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## FAQ

### What does Eden Chen invest in?

Eden Chen invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and PC Games startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 16 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 Eden Chen's check size?

Eden Chen typically joins rounds of $3.2M–$5.7M at Seed, $1.1M–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $15M–$31M 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 Eden Chen participates in.

### When did Eden Chen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eden Chen closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 16 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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