The Hit Forge
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
The Hit Forge is a San Francisco-based social media investment firm that helps build mass-market web properties.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries The Hit Forge invests in
Stages The Hit Forge invests in
Countries The Hit Forge invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Jim White
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 2 (33%)
- Online Games 2 (33%)
- Social Media 2 (33%)
- Apps 1 (17%)
- Gaming 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (50%)
- Series A 3 (50%)
Country
- United States 4 (67%)
- Spain 1 (17%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Jim White
Founding Limited Partner
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Founding Limited Partner | Total investments: 24 | Find email | |
Naval Ravikant
Founder & Managing Partner
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Founder & Managing Partner | Total investments: 232 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Cabify
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Cabify is a ride-sharing company that connects private users and companies with the forms of transport that suit their needs.At Cabify, they make sure their customers - passengers and drivers - enjoy the ride. Charging a fair price, improving your door-to-door journey, and making transport accessible to all are just some of the things they thinkare important. Why? Because they believe that by making transport better, they can make their cities and communities better.Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. | $3M / Seed / Sep 16, 2012 | |
Jambool
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Jambool, Inc. operates Social Gold™, an industry-leading virtual monetization platform.Social Gold enables developers to create and manage their own white-labeled virtual currency, to provide a in-app payments experience to their users, and to optimize their virtual economy using analytics. Social Gold powers the virtual currency and paymentsolutions for thousands of online games and virtual worlds.Jambool is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Seattle and Singapore. Investors include | $1M / Series A / Aug 01, 2008 | |
WeGame
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WeGame is a social platform that connects gamers with the games they should be playing. By using WeGame, gamers seamlessly build their gamer social and interest graphs, which in turn powers WeGame's recommendation and commerce engine. Once a gamer discovers a game on WeGame, they can instantly purchase and play it using the service. Currently,the service's core focus is on PC gaming.WeGame was founded by [Jared Kim] in 2007. | $3M / Series A / Mar 01, 2008 | |
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WeGame
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WeGame is a social platform that connects gamers with the games they should be playing. By using WeGame, gamers seamlessly build their gamer social and interest graphs, which in turn powers WeGame's recommendation and commerce engine. Once a gamer discovers a game on WeGame, they can instantly purchase and play it using the service. Currently,the service's core focus is on PC gaming.WeGame was founded by [Jared Kim] in 2007. | $500K / Seed / Oct 08, 2007 | |
Mesmo
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In 2008, Mesmo.tv pivoted into Mesmo Games with the launch of one of the first female-focused role playing games on Facebook, Make Me A Celebrity, in April 2008. Mesmo Games went on to become a leading social game portal on Facebook with over 50 million users. Mesmo Games was amongst the top 10 of all games on Facebook by monthly and daily activeusers. Mesmo was acquired by GSN in 2010 and rebranded as GSN Games on Facebook, iOS and Android and went on to become a top 10 grossing application.Mesmo.tv launched in June 2007 as a social video discovery site that let you tag videos you like and throw them into a personalized content stream and channels. You could add videos, TV shows and podcasts from any website by submitting links directly to the site, RSS, and a bookmarklet. They also had a Facebook application. The application came preloaded with a database of TV shows drawn from the top network sites. Mesmo helped you discover new video content based on the videos, channels and users you liked. Mesmo took these preferences and matched you up with individual videos, channels, and users sharing similar tastes. Mesmo.tv expanded to become the first and largest social TV site on Facebook with TV shows from ABC, CBS and Hulu, a user generated TV Trivia game including content from over 10,000 TV shows and fan sites for your favorite shows. | $900K / Series A / Oct 01, 2007 | |
DotSpots
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DotSpots is a service that enables anyone to update the news in real-time with dots, or distributed objects of thought: mini-blog posts containing text, videos, images, documents, perspectives from the blogosphere, or eye-witness accounts from the scene.These dots appear as a stream of high-quality user-generated editorial content directlyin-context of all relevant articles across the web, where they are rated and vetted for usefulness by readers — the wisdom of crowds.As a result, news sites gain comprehensive coverage for each breaking story without incurring additional cost, readers get to see multiple perspectives and eye-witness media without extra effort, and worthy alternative view-points from the blogosphere are given the mainstream exposure they deserve, in near real-time. | $300K / Seed / Sep 01, 2007 |
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FAQ
What does The Hit Forge invest in?
The Hit Forge invests primarily in Internet, Online Games and Social Media startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 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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Who are the partners at The Hit Forge?
The team at The Hit Forge includes Jim White (Founding Limited Partner) and Naval Ravikant (Founder & Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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