The Sandbox
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
The Sandbox is a decentralized, community-driven platform, where creators can make voxel assets and gaming experiences and monetize them on the blockchain. It features 3 main components: an NFT builder, a Marketplace, and Game Maker.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 21%
Last updated:
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Industries The Sandbox invests in
Stages The Sandbox invests in
Countries The Sandbox invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 6 (32%)
- Cryptocurrency 5 (26%)
- Gaming 4 (21%)
- Metaverse 4 (21%)
- Web3 3 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (37%)
- Series A 4 (21%)
- Series B 2 (11%)
- Funding Round 2 (11%)
- Corporate Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 6 (32%)
- France 2 (11%)
- United Kingdom 2 (11%)
- Canada 1 (5%)
- Turkey 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lucas Shrewsbury
Chief Technology Officer
|
Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Marcelo Santurio
CFO
|
CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Arthur Madrid
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Igloo creating the onchain community, propelling the consumer cryptocurrency revolution. | Corporate Round / Nov 27, 2024 | ||
| Matera rewards authors for participating on their preferred social media sites. | $3.6M / Seed / May 01, 2024 | ||
| CARV focused on gaming, enabling players with achievement display, semantic social, and access to gaming premiums. It was founded in 2022. | $10M / Series A / Apr 25, 2024 | ||
| Io.net Cloud provides a decentralized computing network enabling machine learning engineers to access distributed clusters at a small fraction of the cost of comparable centralized services. The company's mission is to put together one million GPUs in a DePIN - decentralized physical infrastructure network. | $30M / Series A / Mar 05, 2024 | ||
| Landvault develops infrastructure for the 3D internet, focusing on tools that enable the creation, deployment, and monetization of immersive digital experiences. The company offers AI-powered solutions for building digital twins and interactive environments, serving sectors such as e-commerce, entertainment, public services, and real estate. Itsplatform supports content creation through AI-assisted tools compatible with engines like Unreal and Unity, allowing for efficient development of 3D experiences. | $3M / Series B / Mar 23, 2023 | ||
| UGC90 is an accelerator organization that empowers game studios to become leaders in Web 3.0 gaming and metaverse platforms. The company brings together supreme game ideas, passionate gaming entrepreneurs, cutting-edge blockchain and NFT developers, razor-sharp analysts, talented performance marketing and advanced user acquisition professionals,expert community builders, bold capital, and scale of our corporate partners and network to transform ideas into hi-scale, hi-profit global business. | $100K / Initial Coin Offering / Nov 22, 2022 | ||
| Cosmo Media Labs is a multi-functional production studio for content and gaming as well as IP and brand partnerships. | Seed / Sep 15, 2022 | ||
| Smobler Studios is a multimedia design studio. Their services include multimedia creative ideation, design thinking, storyboarding, 3D, graphic, technical design, animation, video production and metaverse development. | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 06, 2022 | ||
| reNFT is a rental protocol that enables lending and borrowing of NFTs. | $5M / Seed / Jul 26, 2022 | ||
| Buy now, Pay later for the Metaverse. | $2M / Seed / Jun 23, 2022 | ||
| See all 19 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does The Sandbox invest in?
The Sandbox invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 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 Sandbox?
The team at The Sandbox includes Lucas Shrewsbury (Chief Technology Officer), Marcelo Santurio (CFO) and Arthur Madrid (CEO). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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