# Game Tech Ventures

> Game Tech Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 27%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gametechventures/
- Website: https://gametechventures.com/

Game Tech Ventures is a venture capital firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $637k–$7.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $722k–$1M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 27% |
| Gaming | 2 | 18% |
| Video Games | 2 | 18% |
| Augmented Reality | 2 | 18% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 55% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 55% |
| Australia | 1 | 9% |
| United States | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Lachlan Gowrie-Smith | Founding Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lachlan-gowrie-smith |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VividQ | VividQ is bringing about a revolution in digital display and creating the human-machine interface for the next generation of consumer devices. VividQ's computational display technology is creating a future where 3D holographic images are cast into our everyday environment, removing the screens that separate our real and virtual experiences.The company partners with leading original electronics manufacturers (OEMs) to integrate its advanced software and hardware solutions into augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), automotive head-up displays, and other consumer electronics. Founded in 2017, the company is based in Cambridge, U.K., with partners and teams in the U.S. and Japan. | $7.5M | Series A | Aug 21, 2024 |  |
| Amutri | Amutri is the fastest and simplest way to transform engineering design files into interactive 3D presentations that secure buy-in for complex built environment projects. In just minutes, teams can create, host, and share high-impact visuals directly from their browser, with no specialist skills, hardware or software required.Amutri brings complexdesigns to life with visual realism that reflects real-world conditions, helping customers, investors, regulators, and the public to better understand, trust, and support a project. By turning technical data into realistic, accessible visuals, Amutri transforms how designs are communicated and how critical decisions are made.Accelerate project workflows, maximise return on investment, and move projects forward with enterprise-grade 3D Visualisation built for clarity, speed, and impact. | $637.3K | Seed | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| Amutri | Amutri is the fastest and simplest way to transform engineering design files into interactive 3D presentations that secure buy-in for complex built environment projects. In just minutes, teams can create, host, and share high-impact visuals directly from their browser, with no specialist skills, hardware or software required.Amutri brings complexdesigns to life with visual realism that reflects real-world conditions, helping customers, investors, regulators, and the public to better understand, trust, and support a project. By turning technical data into realistic, accessible visuals, Amutri transforms how designs are communicated and how critical decisions are made.Accelerate project workflows, maximise return on investment, and move projects forward with enterprise-grade 3D Visualisation built for clarity, speed, and impact. | $722.4K | Pre-Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Karta | Karta brings your brand into the Metaverse. Karta create branded environments, experiences and events within virtual worlds like Fortnite, Roblox, The Sandbox and others. | $1.1M | Seed | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| move.ai | Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 28, 2022 |  |
| Anything World | Anything World combines AI, speech computing, and 3D rendering with layers of behavioral intelligence. It allows users to save time by combining voice and text commands. | $7.5M | Seed | Nov 09, 2022 |  |
| +MUSIC | +MUSIC is a next-generation music technology company that provides AI-powered music features like adaptivity for increased immersion and personalization. It is an audio technology platform that uses artificial intelligence and integrates it with games such as Fortnite, League of Legends, Valorant, and Dota 2. It also integrates music with themetaverse and UGC. | $2.5M | Seed | Feb 18, 2022 |  |
| mod.io | mod.io is cross-platform mod support and user-generated content (UGC) service created by the team behind ModDB. It’s designed for studios that want to enable their community’s creativity on PC, console, and mobile. Since its launch in 2019, it has been used by more than 50 games to power their mod and creator communities, with 400,000 usersaccessing the platform daily. Together they have created 600,000 pieces of content, with over 100 million mods installed total. mod.io offers an automated, scalable, easy to implement a way to tap into the goodwill and growth UGC can drive and is designed for the modern game that values long-term user engagement and creator economies. | $26M | Series A | Nov 08, 2021 |  |
| mod.io | mod.io is cross-platform mod support and user-generated content (UGC) service created by the team behind ModDB. It’s designed for studios that want to enable their community’s creativity on PC, console, and mobile. Since its launch in 2019, it has been used by more than 50 games to power their mod and creator communities, with 400,000 usersaccessing the platform daily. Together they have created 600,000 pieces of content, with over 100 million mods installed total. mod.io offers an automated, scalable, easy to implement a way to tap into the goodwill and growth UGC can drive and is designed for the modern game that values long-term user engagement and creator economies. | $4M | Seed | Dec 03, 2020 |  |
| Edge | Founded in 2018, Edge is an influencer marketing platform that brings smart solutions to influencer campaigns with the power of accurate data. The data-driven influencer platform enables users to see metrics such as reach, impressions, and engagement of all your influencers and their content across Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.Edge allows youto master influencer campaign reporting by choosing from preset reporting dashboards and customise them to suit your reporting needs. Only Edge allows you to create bespoke reports. The fastest, smartest, easiest influencer management platform. |  | Seed | Nov 06, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Game Tech Ventures invest in?

Game Tech Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Game Tech Ventures's check size?

Game Tech Ventures typically joins rounds of $637k–$7.5M at Seed, $722k–$1M at Pre-Seed and $7.5M–$26M 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 Game Tech Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Game Tech Ventures?

Public channels for Game Tech Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. 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 Game Tech Ventures?

The team at Game Tech Ventures includes Lachlan Gowrie-Smith (Founding Partner). 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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