# Jeffrey Zirlin

> Jeffrey Zirlin is a seed investor at Sky Mavis backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sky Mavis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sky-mavis)
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 7%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffzirlin/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jeffreyzirlin?lang=en
- Website: https://x.com/jeffreyzirlin?lang=en

Jeffrey Zirlin is a seed investor at Sky Mavis focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.6M–$5.4M |
| Series A | $10M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 8 | 53% |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 47% |
| Gaming | 3 | 20% |
| Web3 | 2 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 13% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 67% |
| Series A | 2 | 13% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |
| Series C | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 13% |
| Brazil | 1 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| Panama | 1 | 7% |
| Finland | 1 | 7% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VOYA Games | Voya Games is a Berlin-based game development studio. The company focuses on creating a network of interconnected Web3 games centered around player ownership and tokenized economies. Their flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuildcivilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, enabling players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy. | $5M | Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Moku | Moku is a web3 gaming platform that enables players connect to gaming guilds, NFT casting pages, game strategy communities, and more. | $5.4M | Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| Play AI | Play AI operates as a modular chain for AI in gaming. | $4.3M | Seed | May 29, 2024 |  |
| Metagood | Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Dec 08, 2022 |  |
| Ignite Tournaments | esports, mobile games, streaming, crypto, blockchain, and tournament organization | $7M | Seed | Mar 03, 2022 |  |
| Storygrounds | Strider is a Web 3 platform based on the transparent and secure digital ledger of blockchain that lets creators use DAOs, the DAO spreads membership and ownership of the project across both creators and the users. | $3M | Seed | Feb 10, 2022 |  |
| Pluang | Pluang is a financial technology application that opens public access opportunities to financial products easily and affordably. The company offers a gold savings product that allows investments starting from 0.01 grams and provides users with real-time liquidity and peace of mind as the gold is kept in a government-backed institution through theofficial Indonesian commodities exchange.Founded in 2019, Pluang is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. | $55M | Series B | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Pluang | Pluang is a financial technology application that opens public access opportunities to financial products easily and affordably. The company offers a gold savings product that allows investments starting from 0.01 grams and provides users with real-time liquidity and peace of mind as the gold is kept in a government-backed institution through theofficial Indonesian commodities exchange.Founded in 2019, Pluang is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. | $55M | Series C | Jan 12, 2022 |  |
| Rens Original | Rens Original is a manufacturing company. It upcycles post-industrial plastic and spent coffee grounds into finished items. The company offers waterproof sneakers made from coffee. It recycles plastic air intake placed at the heel and sole to increase ventilation and breathability while maintaining waterproof protection. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 31, 2021 |  |
| BAYZ | BAYZ is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on bringing people into the metaverse through blockchain gaming and play-to-earn engagement. With a focus on content and competition, BAYZ partners with leading publishers, content creators and gamers to help people engage with leading NFT-based games such as Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, EmberSword and Big Time to help build the jobs of the future and reward people for doing what they love. | $4M | Seed | Dec 09, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Yield Guild Games](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yield-guild-games) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Arca](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arca-5fb9) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infinity-ventures-crypto) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [The Spartan Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-spartan-group-4202) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Sky Mavis

VC Fund · Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sky Mavis is a technology company that creates decentralized applications and services. They specialize in the fields of information technology, blockchain, video game, and more.

5 contacts available at Sky Mavis.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aleksander Leonard Larsen | Co-Founder and COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleksander-leonard-larsen |
| Bailey Tan | Head of Ronin Ecosystem | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bailey-tan |
| Jeffrey Zirlin | Co-Founder and Growth Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeffrey-zirlin |
| Viet Anh Ho | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trung-nguyen |
| Trung Nguyen | CEO, Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trung-nguyen-eb19 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jeffrey Zirlin invest in?

Jeffrey Zirlin invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 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 Jeffrey Zirlin's check size?

Jeffrey Zirlin typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$5.4M at Seed and $10M–$25M 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 Jeffrey Zirlin participates in.

### When did Jeffrey Zirlin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jeffrey Zirlin closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 15 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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