Sam Englebardt
General Partner @ Galaxy Interactive
Los Angeles, United States
Sam Englebardt is a media and technology investor and content producer who has created, acquired and/or financed a broad range of traditional and digital businesses and dozens of films and television shows over the past decade.Englebardt is a Co-Founder and Partner at Galaxy Digital and the Head of Galaxy's Interactive division.Investing from its $325 million Galaxy Digital EOS VC Fund (a partnership between Galaxy Digital and software development company, Block.one), Galaxy Interactive focuses exclusively on companies operating at the intersection of interactive content, blockchain and other technologies, with particular emphasis on video game studios, eSports, digital objects and related infrastructure tech.Englebardt’s involvement with Galaxy reflects his deep interest in the intersection of content, consciousness and exponential technologies. In addition to the Galaxy Interactive portfolio (www.galaxyinteractive.io), he was an early investor in Eyefluence, an eye-tracking technology company that was sold to Google and he has been an advisor to several start-ups in the mixed-reality space, including VR company, The Void (www.thevoid.com).Prior to Galaxy Digital, Englebardt was a Partner and Managing Director at Lambert Media Group (LMG) from 2007 - 2016, where he sourced and managed a portfolio of media-sector private equity investments. Before LMG, Englebardt was a Vice President and Financial Advisor at Alliance Bernstein. He has been a prolific content producer throughout his career and spent three years running LMG portfolio company, Demarest Films. His recent live-action projects include the acclaimed John Le Carre projects, The Night Manager and A Most Wanted Man.A licensed attorney in California, Englebardt earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and studied philosophy, political science and economics at Oxford University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, from which he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
- Total investments:
- 46
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 54%
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Industries Sam Englebardt invests in
Stages Sam Englebardt invests in
Countries Sam Englebardt invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 11 (24%)
- Software 9 (20%)
- Video Games 9 (20%)
- Blockchain 7 (15%)
- Online Games 5 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 16 (35%)
- Seed 10 (22%)
- Series B 10 (22%)
- Series C 4 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 28 (61%)
- Australia 2 (4%)
- France 1 (2%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
- Finland 1 (2%)
Investments
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| Last Energy develops and delivers micro modular nuclear power plants designed to provide decarbonized, reliable energy through a full-service delivery model that spans design, construction, and operations. The company offers factory-produced modular plants, like its 20 MWe PWR-20 units, that can be deployed rapidly to serve energy-intensiveindustrial customers and utilities with baseload electricity and heat. Its services include long-term power purchase agreements that eliminate upfront capital for customers while enabling flexible siting and minimal resource requirements. Last Energy’s solutions support both behind-the-meter applications for industries and grid-scale energy projects for broader power delivery. The company integrates established reactor technology with its delivery process to help clients access consistent, carbon-free energy. | $100M / Series C / Dec 16, 2025 | ||
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems develops fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to create compact tokamak reactors. It is building SPARC, a demonstration device designed to achieve net energy gain from fusion and laying the groundwork for ARC, a grid-connected fusion power plant targeting early 2030s operation. Thecompany partners with MIT and manufactures its HTS magnets and related components, applying peer-reviewed science in its firewalling of plasma and reactor engineering. It has introduced innovations like the PIT VIPER superconducting cable to support pulsed-power magnet systems and accelerate readiness for commercial fusion. | $863M / Series B / Aug 27, 2025 | ||
| Hyperspace is a permanent ticketed experiential attraction developer that creates, builds, operates, and funds attractions. Founded in 2020 and is based inDubai, AE. | $55M / Series A / Oct 05, 2023 | ||
| Founded and run by Marcus Segal and Michael Pagano Doom, the company is creating category defining games with social play that offer entertainment for people of all ages. Launched in 2020 during one of the strangest times in human history, ForeVR understands that VR’s time is now. The accessibility of VR technology, the need for socially distantentertainment options and nostalgia for popular in person games set the stage for success. As well as the fact that 42.9 million people in the US will use VR at least once a month this year and gaming and entertainment media hold 40.5% of the VR market share (Statista).The ForeVR team includes gaming veterans, imagineers, and a death metal guitarist. This collective are also early pioneers of social gaming, VR-AR immersives and AAA branded toys. Together they have one goal --Translate the most popular and classic IRL games into immersive virtual reality experiences where friends and families of all ages can connect and have fun. | $10M / Series A / Oct 27, 2022 | ||
| Hour One AI develops a video creation and management platform built for the world of work. It harnesses computer-generated AI people in photo-real quality to digitize and optimize the traditional video production process. All of Hour One’s video creation is located in the cloud, making it possible for any business to create and use high-qualitypresenter videos at a fraction of the cost, in minutes, in any language, self-serve, and at a high scale. | $20M / Series A / Apr 25, 2022 | ||
| Gadsme is an advertising company that offers advertising specifically for video games as well as sports. | $8M / Seed / Apr 07, 2022 | ||
| Aglet is a digital platform that connects sneakerheads, creators, and brands through virtual sneakers. Aglet is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love.Mythical Games has a team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Its goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games. | $150M / Series C / Nov 04, 2021 | ||
| GreenPark Sports provides digital experiences and games for sports and esports fans. Its flagship product is a native, free-to-play mobile game played over the top of sporting events, where fans battle to become the undisputed “Best Fans” of their league and season. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California. | $31M / Series B / Oct 22, 2021 | ||
| Masterworks is the first company to allow investors to buy and trade shares in multi-million dollar masterpieces created by world-renowned artists. By strategically purchasing investment-grade works of art, Masterworks is democratizing the art world by making high-end art investment accessible to everyone. | $110M / Series A / Oct 05, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Galaxy Interactive
Founded in 2018, Galaxy Interactive is a New York-based venture capital firm. The firm invests in interactive content and in the technologies powering digital and physical convergence, backing companies across gaming, immersive media, blockchain infrastructure, tokenized economies, artificial intelligence systems, high performance computing,longevity, and advanced energy and compute architectures.
Galaxy Interactive Contacts
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Richard Kim
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Sam Englebardt
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Zack Zaharis
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What does Sam Englebardt invest in?
Sam Englebardt invests primarily in Gaming, Software and Video Games startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 46 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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