# Nicholas Tuosto

> Nicholas Tuosto is a Series A investor at Griffin Gaming Partners backing Gaming and eSports. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Griffin Gaming Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/griffin-gaming-partners)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 89%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-tuosto-12b696/

Nicholas Tuosto is a Series A investor at Griffin Gaming Partners in Palo Alto focused on Gaming and eSports. Nick Tuosto is a Managing Director in the Technology, Media, and Telecom Group and Co-Heads the Internet & Digital Media Group globally. In particular, he leads the coverage of interactive entertainment companies for the investment bank.Nick has provided strategic and financial advice to a broad spectrum of technology clients over hiscareer, most recently advising Tencent exclusively on the acquisition of Supercell and Kabam on the sale of its Vancouver Studio to Netmarble.Nick graduated phi beta kappa with a bachelor’s in economics from Brown University in 2004 and Order of the Coif from Stanford Law School in 2007.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 6 | 67% |
| eSports | 3 | 33% |
| Computer | 2 | 22% |
| PC Games | 2 | 22% |
| Video Games | 2 | 22% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Series C | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series D | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 44% |
| India | 2 | 22% |
| Israel | 2 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Second Dinner Studios | Second Dinner is a small, sleek, and absurdly vigorous new game studio.We may be small, but we've got BIG DREAMS! We want to make fun video games! Games with depth and pizzazz! Games for you. Games for us!Starting up a new studio is a bit scary, but we’ve assembled a top-notch founding team and have secured funding that should take us allthe way through shipping our first game. And that’s money in hand with no need to sing and dance for milestone payments or desperately try to find new investors along the way.Which means that we are entirely masters of our own destiny; our glorious ascension or tragic (but still glorious!) downfall is entirely up to us! We've been lucky to have helped make a huge impact on the games industry through our work on Hearthstone™, World of Warcraft™, Halo™ (and more!); and we're going to do it again. Almost definitely. | $100M | Series B | Jan 08, 2024 |  |
| EloElo | Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free | $22M | Series B | Sep 20, 2023 |  |
| Nexus | Chrono.gg to bring a unique perspective to buying games. Instead of offering as many different titles as possible in as many formations as one can imagine, we simply offer one awesome game, at an incredible price, every 24 hours. | $10M | Series A | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Muus Collective | Muus Collective is a fashion and digital studio for the creator, gamer, and meta-visionary. | $5M | Seed | Oct 11, 2022 |  |
| UnCaged Studios | UnCaged Studios is pioneering the next generation of AAA, play-first web3 gaming. It leverages games OS to co-develop with and support game studios by providing core technical functionality, infrastructure, and live operations services. | $24M | Series A | Jul 14, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $75M | Series D | Nov 17, 2021 |  |
| WinZO | WinZO is a mobile e-sports social gaming platform that offers monetary benefits and prizes to players.The platform offers nearly 70+ games including carrom, cricket, bubble shooter, fruit samurai, knife up, memory mania, fantasy league, and trivia-based questions. WinZO hosts all its games on a single platform across multiple formats in 12+regional languages and 60% of content on our platform is consumed in non-English languages.It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New Delhi, Delhi, India by Paavan Nanda and Saumya Singh Rathore. | $65M | Series C | Jul 02, 2021 |  |
| Forte | Forte is building economic technology for games that is secure, easy to use, and fully compliant. Its end-to-end blockchain platform enables the emergence of community economics, a system where the interests of game developers and players are aligned, leading to healthier, sustainable game communities. The team is composed of longtime industrymembers (Unity, ngmoco, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Sony, and Rockstar Games, among others), and is currently working with over 25 acclaimed game developers from across the globe to reimagine the economics of games. | $185M | Series A | May 12, 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 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Intel Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/intel-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Insight Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/insight-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Marker](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marker) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Battery Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/battery-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Griffin Gaming Partners

VC Fund · Los Angeles, Mexico

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the gaming industry The firm invests across the broad gaming ecosystem, including content, software, and platforms.

5 contacts available at Griffin Gaming Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Peter Levin | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-levin-2 |
| Phil Sanderson | Managing Director & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-sanderson |
| Chris Hollenbeck | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-hollenbeck |
| Emily Wang | Chief Operating Officer and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emily-wang-3d65 |
| Nicholas Tuosto | Managing Director & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicholas-tuosto |

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## FAQ

### What does Nicholas Tuosto invest in?

Nicholas Tuosto invests primarily in Gaming, eSports and Computer startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 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 Nicholas Tuosto last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nicholas Tuosto closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 9 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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