# Matthew Ball

> Matthew Ball is a seed investor at Xbox (Miami Beach) backing Gaming and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Xbox](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xbox-6a6a)
- Location: Miami Beach, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ballmatthew
- Website: https://x.com/ballmatthew

Matthew Ball is a seed investor at Xbox in Miami Beach focused on Gaming and Software. Matthew Ball is based out of Miami Beach, Florida and is the CEO of Epyllion and Chief Strategy Officer of Xbox. Matthew previously worked at McKinsey & Companyas a Senior Advisor. Matthew Ball attended Ivey Business School at Western University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 4 | 33% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Virtual Reality | 3 | 25% |
| PC Games | 2 | 17% |
| Online Games | 2 | 17% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 58% |
| Series A | 3 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 17% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |
| Germany | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gondi | Gondi is a non-custodial decentralized NFT lending protocol designed to build the most effective NFT credit market. The protocol allows for ongoing underwriting and full and partial refinancing of all outstanding loans, resulting in a more dynamic and liquid market. | $5.4M | Seed | Jul 11, 2023 |  |
| Meshcapade | Meshcapade (Germany) is revolutionizing the world of human body modeling, sizing, and animation. Meshcapade employs a state of the art statistical model of body shape that encodes realistic shapes, sizes, and motions. We make animating, simulating, and recognizing human bodies effortless, and to bring realistic virtual humans into simulation and3D environments. | $6M | Seed | Jun 14, 2023 |  |
| Illumix | Illumix develops augmented reality games. Kirin Sinha, Marianne Dang, and Alex Fu founded it in 2017, with its headquarters in Redwood City in California. | $18M | Series A | Mar 20, 2023 |  |
| move.ai | Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 28, 2022 |  |
| GOALS | Goals is a provider of an online football game. Goals is a multiplayer-first football game primarily for PC and consoles that offers a way for gamers to own in-game digital assets as they play. | $15M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| RSTLSS | RSTLSS is a developer of a digital fashion label that allows individuals to freely and fluidly express their identity. The company's platform gives artists, brands, and influencers the freedom and access to create and sell multiverse fashion through an engaging, gamified experience. It also grows crypto-native brands and onboards traditionalinternet protocols (IPs) into the metaverse via curated non-fungible token (NFT) drops, allowing them to create and monetize wearables and merchandise in the metaverse while maintaining complete control over their visual identities. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Arcol | Arcol simplifies building design with powerful, browser-based modeling that lets your whole team work together | $3.6M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Lightforge Games | Lightforge Games is a new, all-remote studio of industry veterans on a quest to change how the world plays RPGs. They building a studio for the long haul, rooted in a culture of empathy, honesty, and growth. We're looking for wild dreamers and renaissance thinkers from all walks of life. | $15M | Series A | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Emerge | Emerge is a consumer technology company building a multi-sensory communication platform to bridge distance and time—through touch, sight, sound, and brain activity, powered by emotion AI, to allow users to digitize and transmit their emotions. With over 2 billion people worldwide feeling disconnected from others—one of the greatest life hazards ofour generation—it's time for a new communication platform that focuses on what really matters: our emotional connection with others.The first step is to introduce touch to virtual interactions—via TVs, AR, and VR displays. Emerge Wave-series is the anchor product line for the emotion AI. The patented consumer device emits precise ultrasonic forcefields that can be physically felt with bare hands—imagine a “virtual high five” or holding hands across the globe, with no gloves or controllers needed.We are proud of our impact-focused and diverse team—70% of us are immigrants and first-generation Americans. We are former entrepreneurs and industry veterans who have developed and launched products in the fields of consumer electronics, augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, gaming, and space exploration.Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, CA, Emerge is backed by venture capital firms including M13 and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, and other notable investors such as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment, Twitch, and Riot Games. | $13.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Syndicate | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $20M | Series A | Aug 31, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BITKRAFT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitkraft-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [RW3 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rw3-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Warner Music Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/warner-music-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [11:11 Media](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1111media) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [1Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1up-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Archetype](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/acrylic-b04d) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Xbox

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Xbox.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Matthew Ball | Chief Strategy Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-ball-9366 |

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## FAQ

### What does Matthew Ball invest in?

Matthew Ball invests primarily in Gaming, Software and Virtual Reality startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 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 Matthew Ball last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matthew Ball closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 12 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?

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