# Kevin Chou

> Kevin Chou is a seed investor at Taki Games (San Francisco) backing Gaming and Video Games. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Taki Games](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/taki-1645)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinchou
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/kevinchou
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kevin.chou.92123

Kevin Chou is a seed investor at Taki Games in San Francisco focused on Gaming and Video Games. Kevin Chou is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SuperLayer. He previously worked at Kabam as a Co-Founder and CEO. Kevin Chou attended UC Berkeley, Haas Business School.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $625k–$11M |
| Series A | $12M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 6 | 33% |
| Video Games | 5 | 28% |
| Blockchain | 4 | 22% |
| eSports | 3 | 17% |
| Mobile | 2 | 11% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 61% |
| Series A | 3 | 17% |
| Angel | 1 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 67% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |
| Israel | 1 | 6% |
| Taiwan | 1 | 6% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| YieldClub | YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 20, 2025 |  |
| Key AI | Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Forge | Forge is fast, automatic, always-on game capture. Users can download Forge for free. It costs nothing and there are zero ads, just gaming entertainment. | $11M | Seed | Oct 18, 2023 |  |
| Joyride Games | Joyride builds entertainment franchises powered by mobile games and scaled on an industry-leading publishing platform enabled by the latest AI and blockchain technologies. Our franchises provide themed experiences anchored on shared story worlds and consistent game formats. Within these franchises, we build games with characters and stories thatwill stick with players, with new takes on familiar RPG and casual games. | $14M | Seed | Mar 18, 2022 |  |
| Community Gaming | CommunityGaming.io combines social gaming, match automation, and blockchain payment technology to make it easy to organize and compete in esports tournaments. Their solution uses automated software and blockchain payment tech to produce fair, transparent, automated results without the complexity normally associated with blockchain solutions. Ourevent platform is a network of thousands of gamers, dozens of venues, and brands who we've proudly brought together across over 200 live and online esports competitions. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 01, 2021 |  |
| Syndicate | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $800K | Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |
| portto / Blocto | portto aims to make blockchain simple for users and developers. With its most user-friendly blockchain application browser and wallet SDKs, portto has pushed it steps forward for blockchain to be used in real life scenarios. | $8M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 28, 2021 |  |
| Now Do | Now Do provides online growth revolution platform. | $4.3M | Seed | Mar 31, 2021 |  |
| Overwolf | Overwolf is a software platform that builds and develops gaming apps for gamers and creators. The company's mission is to provide value for every gamer in every game by helping third-party developers. Working with passionate creators, venture-backed startups, and large corporates, Overwolf helps developers unlock new game features that improvegame experiences and support the game publishers. Overwolf's partners include Intel, OP.GG, NVIDIA, Cloud9, Team Liquid, Riot Games, Logitech, and many others. | $52.5M | Series C | Mar 16, 2021 |  |
| Now Do | Now Do provides online growth revolution platform. | $7.1M | Angel | Dec 13, 2019 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Animoca Brands](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/animoca-brands-corporation) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BITKRAFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitkraft-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Dapper Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dapper-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1kx](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1kx) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups-da1d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Taki Games

VC Fund · Singapore, Singapore

Taki is a token-powered social network where creators can earn by simply posting content and chatting with others.

1 contacts available at Taki Games.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kevin Chou | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kevin-chou-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Kevin Chou invest in?

Kevin Chou invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and Blockchain 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.

### What is Kevin Chou's check size?

Kevin Chou typically joins rounds of $625k–$11M at Seed and $12M–$14M 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 Kevin Chou participates in.

### When did Kevin Chou last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kevin Chou closed in Jun 2025. 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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