# Jim Ward

> Jim Ward is a seed investor at Alsop Louie Partners (Phoenix) backing Apps and Gaming. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alsop Louie Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alsop-louie-partners)
- Location: Phoenix, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-ward-962685a

Jim Ward is a seed investor at Alsop Louie Partners in Phoenix focused on Apps and Gaming. Jim Ward joined Meow Wolf as Co-CEO, Office of the CEO in 2019.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 100% |
| Gaming | 1 | 100% |
| Software | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tesoro | Tesoro is a Gaming Software offering reward based transaction system for the gamers. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 22, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Treasury](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/treasury) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Alsop Louie Partners

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Alsop Louie Partners focuses on identifying the most promising entrepreneurs and working with information technology companies specializing in traditional VC parlance and early-stage technology investments. The firm prefers to follow the instincts and experience of the entrepreneurs and invest in all kinds of technology-based ventures. It believesthat it is not the job of venture investors to fund companies that require large amounts of capital, more than $20M, to create a stable, validated business operation.

5 contacts available at Alsop Louie Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jason Preston | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-preston-2 |
| Jim Ward | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-ward |
| Jim Whims | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-whims |
| Mark G Fields | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-fields-2 |
| William Crowell | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-p-crowell |

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## FAQ

### What does Jim Ward invest in?

Jim Ward invests primarily in Apps, Gaming and Software startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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