Nate Mitchell
Co-Founder & CEO @ Mountaintop Studios
San Francisco, United States
Nate Mitchell is a seed investor at Mountaintop Studios in San Francisco focused on Gaming and Video Games. Nate Mitchell is the Chief Product Officer of Sesame. Nate Mitchell was the Co-Founder and vice president of product at Oculus, the company that’s bringing immersive virtual reality technology to the world. Nate currently heads up Oculus product development, including the highly anticipated Oculus Rift headset. Before Oculus, Nate worked on theproduct teams at Gaikai, the cloud-gaming company acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2012, and at Scaleform, developers of the leading user interface solution for the video game industry, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.
- Total investments:
- 17
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Nate Mitchell invests in
Stages Nate Mitchell invests in
Countries Nate Mitchell invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $2.5M–$6.7M
- Series A
- $12M–$31M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 6 (35%)
- Video Games 4 (24%)
- PC Games 3 (18%)
- Online Games 3 (18%)
- Virtual Reality 3 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (53%)
- Series A 5 (29%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (12%)
Country
- United States 12 (71%)
- Germany 2 (12%)
- United Kingdom 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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welevel
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welevel aim is to craft spectacular gaming experiences, designed by players, for players and they push the limits of Unrel Engine 5 to merge thrill, exploration, and impressive construction features. | $5.7M / Seed / Mar 06, 2025 | |
Kaedim
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Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today. | $15M / Series A / Mar 11, 2024 | |
Brain Jar Games
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Brain Jar Games is a new worldwide studio comprised of AAA professionals dedicated to creating bold and bright games that players want to share. | $6.7M / Seed / Mar 07, 2024 | |
Barnyard Games
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Barnyard Games is a gaming production studio that creates strategic games and simulations. | $3.4M / Seed / Dec 14, 2023 | |
Windup Minds
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Windup Minds is a game studio focused on creating VR and MR virtual pet experiences. The company runs a gaming studio that aims to bring virtual pet games to market. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Aug 07, 2023 | |
Meshcapade
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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 | |
Gardens
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Founded by designers of such award-winning indie titles as Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Dustforce, Blaseball, and more, Gardens Interactive is a game studio focused on the future of online play, growing lush, living spaces that need to be cared for by their communities, and fostering meaningful, memorable stories between players around theworld. | $31.3M / Series A / May 31, 2023 | |
Plura
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Bloom Community offers sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture communities a secure online environment. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 14, 2022 | |
Bloom
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is a YCombinator-backed social and dating app that helps people meet around events. Bloom partners with event organizers to enable attendees to connect and chat before and after events. Bloom members can discover events and people to meet through the app. The team is led by Lauren Vegter, who previously led User Acquisition at Instagram from 700Mto past a billion users, launched consumer VR and led social VR at Oculus, and has two MIT degrees. The team has experience from Google, Facebook, Nest, LinkedIn, Ebay/Paypal, and multiple YCombinator-backed startups. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 13, 2022 | |
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Plura
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Bloom Community offers sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture communities a secure online environment. | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 13, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About Mountaintop Studios
Mountaintop Studios is a game studio creating multiplayer games for players who crave a challenge.
Mountaintop Studios Contacts
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Mark Terrano
Design Director and Founder
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Nate Mitchell
Co-Founder & CEO
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Zack Zaharis
Board Member
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FAQ
What does Nate Mitchell invest in?
Nate Mitchell invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and PC Games startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 17 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 Nate Mitchell's check size?
Nate Mitchell typically joins rounds of $2.5M–$6.7M at Seed and $12M–$31M 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 Nate Mitchell participates in.
When did Nate Mitchell last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Nate Mitchell closed in Mar 2025. Shizune tracks 17 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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