# Jay Chi

> Jay Chi is a seed investor at Makers Fund backing Gaming, Video Games and Online Games. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Makers Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/makers-fund)
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 72%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaysonchi

Jay Chi is a seed investor at Makers Fund focused on Gaming and Video Games. Jay Chi currently works as the Founding Partner for Makers Fund. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Partner.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 12 | 67% |
| Video Games | 7 | 39% |
| Online Games | 4 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 17% |
| Media and Entertainment | 3 | 17% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 39% |
| Series A | 7 | 39% |
| Series B | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 67% |
| Australia | 2 | 11% |
| France | 1 | 6% |
| Finland | 1 | 6% |
| South Korea | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chance Studios | Chance Studios operates a community-focused collectibles superapp for Pokémon and TCG enthusiasts. | $3.2M | Seed | May 01, 2026 |  |
| Chance Studios | Chance Studios operates a community-focused collectibles superapp for Pokémon trading card game enthusiasts. | $3.2M | Seed | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Human Computer | Human Computer is an independent video game studio focused on creating meaningful and creatively boundary-pushing gaming experiences. | $5.7M | Seed | Mar 13, 2025 |  |
| Hybe IM | HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences. | $80M | Series A | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Noodle Cat Games | Noodle Cat is an independent game studio on a mission to change the current standard of game development. The Noodle Cat team is committed to learning, collaborating, and pushing boundaries in a healthy, flexible working environment. | $4.1M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Theorycraft Games | Theorycraft Games operates as an independent game development studio that operates remotely. The company is in process of developing its first game codenamed Loki. Theorycraft was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States. | $50M | Series B | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Alta | We build vibrant communities that bring incredible experiences to our players as we innovate with new technology to find new ways to play. | $12.4M | Seed | Jan 26, 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 |  |
| VRChat | VRChat is a virtual reality social platform that allows users to easily build social virtual reality content. Any virtual world built with the VRChat platform instantly becomes a social VR world. This means VRChat users can explore and play in these worlds together, in a social setting. Using VRChat, content creators can take their 3D worlds and bewalking around those worlds in VR, with friends, in under an hour. Users can then sell their content to other users using the VRChat market place.It was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $80M | Series D | Jun 28, 2021 |  |
| Multiverse | Multiverse is a web-based social game and game creation platform. It also offers a marketplace where creatives can make and sell skins, arts, and games to anyone on the platform. Sara Alfageeh, Thariq Shihipar, and Hisham Bedri established it in Boston, Massachusetts. | $17.5M | Series A | Apr 22, 2021 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anthos Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthos-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arbitrum Gaming Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arbitrum-gaming-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Digital Elm](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/digital-elm) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Gam3Girl Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gam3girl-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Makers Fund

VC Fund

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

5 contacts available at Makers Fund.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adalsteinn Alli Ottarsson | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adalsteinn-alli-ottarsson |
| Andrew Wilson | Principal | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-wilson-d93b |
| Archie Stonehill | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archie-stonehill |
| Eric Feddersen | Graduate Intern | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-feddersen |
| Jay Chi | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jay-chi |

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## FAQ

### What does Jay Chi invest in?

Jay Chi invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and Online Games startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jay Chi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jay Chi closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 18 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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