# Kent Wakeford

> Kent Wakeford is a seed investor at Gen.G Esports (San Francisco) backing Internet and Gaming. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Gen.G Esports](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gen-g-esports)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wakeford

Kent Wakeford is a seed investor at Gen.G Esports in San Francisco focused on Internet and Gaming. Kent Wakeford is Chief Operating Officer for Kabam, a world leader in AAA mobile free-to-play games. Kent joined Kabam full-time in February 2011 after serving as a company advisor since February 2009. He has been instrumental in shaping the company’s game portfolio, adding talented development teams, and navigating all legal areas for the company.Currently, he is responsible for the legal department, mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy and governance, partnerships for third party game development, and licensed intellectual property.Kent has sourced and structured Kabam’s relationships with Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for The Hobbit mobile and web games, and NBCUniversal for the Fast & Furious 6 mobile game. Kent facilitated Kabam’s acquisitions of Gravity Bear, Fearless Studios, WonderHill, Wild Shadow Studios, Balanced Worlds, Exploding Barrel Games, Phoenix Age, TapZen and Magic Pixel Games. In addition, he assisted in raising more than $100 million in capital investments for Kabam from venture and strategic investors including Google Ventures, SK Telecom, Pinnacle Ventures, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Canaan Partners, Intel Capital and Redpoint Ventures. Kent also played an integral role in Alibaba’s $120 million investment in Kabam, which increased the company’s valuation to more than $1 billion.Kent began his digital career at Netscape and spent more than five years at AOL as a Vice President, facilitating more than 250 partnerships across AOL web properties as well as Time Inc., Turner, and Warner Bros. Prior to joining Kabam, he was SVP at AddThis social sharing platform and co-founded the media valuation and ad verification company Integral Ad Science. Kent began his career as a corporate attorney at O’Melveny & Myers representing movie studios, record labels, and media companies.Kent graduated order of the coif from University of Southern California Law School, achieving awards for highest scholarship and excellence in the field of entertainment law, and participated on Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree cum laude from University of California, Los Angeles.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$8.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 50% |
| Gaming | 1 | 17% |
| Mobile | 1 | 17% |
| Soccer | 1 | 17% |
| Sports | 1 | 17% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 83% |
| Japan | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| tvScientific | TvScientific is a CTV platform that makes TV advertising accessible and measurable for brands and apps of all sizes. TvScientific leverages data to prove the actual value of TV advertising and simplifies and automates CTV buying and optimization. TvScientific provides actionable, real-time reporting so people may feel confident their campaigns areperforming at their peak levels. Users may gain insightful information about the incremental value of CTV campaigns from the Always-On Incrementality testing feature, which gives them further confidence that they are generating the desired results. | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 06, 2021 |  |
| Now Do | Now Do provides online growth revolution platform. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 31, 2021 |  |
| Carbonated | Carbonated's main focus is its upcoming mobile shooter, which uses AI to make the typically hardcore genre more accessible and easier to play with just one hand. It is also developing its own live ops system, Carbyne, which it will use to quickly deliver updates to its game. | $8.5M | Seed | Jul 16, 2020 |  |
| Samsara Therapeutics | Samsara Therapeutics, Inc. is an R&D-stage biopharmaceutical platform company aiming to discover, develop and commercialize therapeutics for the treatment of unmet medical needs and age-related diseases. Samsara's platform is a pipeline for the identification, chemical optimization, and in vivo validation of compounds that extend a healthylifespan. | $3.2M | Seed | Dec 20, 2019 |  |
| Brainbase | Brainbase helps teams optimize their partnerships from contract to revenue. | $3M | Seed | Aug 20, 2019 |  |
| Enjoius | Enjoius provides a one-stop online marketplace for personalized event design services that makes it easy for people to discover inspiring content, get step-by-step advice, shop hand-picked products, and hire the right event professionals to bring their event ideas to life. For brands, Enjoius offers a platform where they can market their productsand services more effectively and increase sales on their existing commerce sites and marketing channels or through the Enjoius network by integrating their products within curated content and value-added services provided by lifestyle experts, event pros and best-of-breed service providers. This provides significant value to online and brick and mortar retailers looking to compete more effectively with Amazon and offer solutions to consumers with added value beyond just the product itself. Enjoius also provides insights and data to brands creating a more targeted, personalized shopping experience. | $1.4M | Seed | Nov 28, 2017 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Akatsuki Games Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/akatsuki-3) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Apollo Health Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apollo-health-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BITKRAFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitkraft-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bonfire Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bonfire-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cambrian Biopharma](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambrian-biopharma) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Gen.G Esports

VC Fund · Seoul, South Korea

Established in 2017, Gen.G is the leading esports organization connecting the U.S. and Asia. Ranked #6 in the 2019 Forbes list of the world’s most valuable esports companies, Gen.G is the only major organization that owns and operates top teams in the world’s leading esports markets -- China, South Korea, and the United States. Its unique portfolioof teams, winners of 7 global championships to date, includes the Seoul Dynasty franchise of the Overwatch League; 2014 & 2017 League of Legends world champion teams in South Korea; the world’s top all-female Fortnite team, based in Los Angeles; and the NBA 2K League’s historic expansion franchise in Shanghai. Gen.G’s core mission is to help fans and athletes use the power of gaming and esports to get ahead in and beyond competition. The company has quickly become a commercial and thought leader, building a global, inclusive, and cross-cultural future for sports entertainment. Its widely acclaimed initiatives include: #TeamBumble, the leading team platform for the empowerment of women in gaming; and Gen.G Elite Esports Academy, the world’s first fully-integrated academic esports program. Gen.G’s teams, content creators, and corporate staff work out of their offices in Los Angeles, Seoul, and Shanghai.

5 contacts available at Gen.G Esports.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Park | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-park-132f |
| Kent Wakeford | Co-Founder + Vice Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kent-wakeford |
| Kevin Chou | Executive Chairman and Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-chou-2 |
| Martin Kim | VP, Strategic Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-kim-bf56 |
| Phillip Hyun | Vice Chairman, Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phillip-hyun |

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## FAQ

### What does Kent Wakeford invest in?

Kent Wakeford invests primarily in Internet, Gaming and Mobile startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 6 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 Kent Wakeford's check size?

Kent Wakeford typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$8.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kent Wakeford participates in.

### When did Kent Wakeford last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kent Wakeford closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 6 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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