Companies we're committed to

Anykraft Pre-Launch

Anykraft is on a mission to unlock a world where ANYone can KRAFT experiences and share on the web3 rails.

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  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry Games
Founder(s)
Luke Ahn CEO & Co-Founder

Luke is the CEO of Anykraft with experiences at Bloomberg and enterprise tech consulting. He grew fond of blockchain technology while getting his master's in CS from Cornell in 2017. A big believer of free to play, no upfront costs, easy to learn competitive games, as well as NFTs and blockchain, Luke and the team put a significant dent in blockchain-integrated games.

Chi Hyun Co-Founder

Chi Hyun leads the tech side of Anykraft. An engineer to the core and a believer in craftsmanship, Chi Hyun's past experience at Niantic (Pokémon Go), Amazon, and Nexon make him a unicorn in every aspect of game building.

Beyond Public

The Power of Web3 for Your Community

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  • Co-investers Kindred Capital
  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry Collaboration
Founder(s)
Shane Neubauer CEO & Co-Founder

Shane has been working with technology for over 15 years, starting out in engineering and making his way to leadership. After spending 5 years at Google as a software engineer and engineering lead for EMEA, he switched focus and became a startup founder.

Alexander Hipp Co-Founder

Alexander has been building various digital products since 2009. Most recently, he held multiple product management roles at companies such as N26, Riptide and PM Library. Alexander has been building communities since 2018 for Mind the Product and founded the PM Library.

BigBrain Public

BigBrain is an interactive, real-money gaming platform.

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  • Co-investers First Round Capital Box Group Ludlow
  • Partnered 2021
  • Industry Games
Founder(s)
Nik Bonaddio CEO

Nik Bonaddio is the founder and CEO of BigBrain. Before founding BigBrain, he was the Chief Product Officer at FanDuel and the Founder/CEO of numberFire, which was acquired by FanDuel in 2015.

Chainkemists Pre-Launch

Chainkemists creates cryptographic protocol-first games that last forever.

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  • Partnered 2021
  • Industry Games
Founder(s)
Keith Lee CEO

Formerly Lead Producer for Diablo III at Blizzard Entertainment in 2003 and Lead Gameplay Programmer for the Ratchet & Clank series at Insomniac Games, Keith was born and raised in Hong Kong, and graduated from Phillips Exeter and received a B.S. & M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University.

Emil Anticevic CTO

Emil builds real-time stateless multiplayer, cross-play, and ops platforms for both mobile and AAA games. He loves skill-based MMR matchmaking systems for competitive games, and was born and raised in Croatia.

Cymbal Pre-Launch

Cymbal is helping consumers Discover, Share, and Own the blockchain.

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  • Co-investers GV 6th Man Ventures First Round Capital
  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry NFTS
Founder(s)
Eric Feng Co-Founder & CEO

Starting with NFTs, Eric Feng is the co-founder and CEO of stealth web3 startup Cymbal. He previously led ecommerce incubations at Facebook, where he joined after leading early stage consumer internet investments at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. Before Kleiner Perkins, Eric was the founding CTO and head of product at Hulu, and had leadership roles at Microsoft Research.

James Jerlecki Co-Founder & CPO

James is a co-founder and CPO at Cymbal. Before starting Cymbal, James was the creator of a popular NFT project which he did anonymously. Previously he was the founder and CEO of Gif Your Game. GYG made it easy to share highlights of your gameplay and was acquired in the summer of 2021. James is an avid angel investor and NFT collector with early bets on Doodles, Coco, Backbone, Shef, Bird Buddy and more.

Deca Public

The powerful infrastructure that brings NFTs to life.

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  • Co-investers 6529 Capital Offline Ventures
  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry NFT Infrastructure
Founder(s)
Bonafidehan Founder & CEO

Han is the Founder & CEO of Deca. He is the largest single owner of both Fidenza and Incomplete Control NFT art collections. Previously he worked at Amazon, Google, Dropbox + 2 startups. Part of 6529 Capital.

Derby Stars Public

Derby Stars is a Horse racing AAA metaverse game where players can breed, grow, build, and trade.

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  • Co-investers Hashed Galaxy Interactive
  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry Games
Founder(s)
Seonwoo Hahm Lead Producer

Seonwoo "Sean" Hahm is a Lead Producer at Derby Stars with 20 years of experience as a Game Designer and Producer at NCSoft, Nexon, Smilegate, and Com2us. Notable projects include Derby Days, GetAmped, Moamoa Dragon, Returners, and Universe. He is also a UNOPND founding member.

Fast Break Labs Public

Fast Break Labs is building the future of sports gaming and entertainment, starting with the Virtual Basketball Association (VBA), the basketball league of the Metaverse.

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  • Co-investers Pantera Blue Pool
  • Partnered 2021
  • Industry Games
Founder(s)
Charles Du CEO

Charles is the co-founder and CEO of Fast Break Labs. He was previously a PM at Meta where he worked on Instagram Stories, Health, and the Elections. He’s a huge basketball fan and fantasy sports nerd.

John Wu CTO

John is the co-founder and CTO of Fast Break Labs. He was previously an engineer at Meta where he worked on Machine Learning and Cloud Infrastructure. In his free time, he loves playing video games and spending an obscene amount of time on crypto twitter.

Kudos Public

Kudos is a smart shopping assistant that helps consumers save time and earn money whenever they shop.

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  • Co-investers SciFi Precursor SV Angel
  • Partnered 2021
  • Industry Fintech
Founder(s)
Tikue Anazodo CEO

Tikue has worked in product roles at Affirm, YouTube and Google Pay. He was born in Nigeria and enjoys exploring new cities.

Ahmad Ismail Co-founder

Ahmad has worked in product roles at Affirm and Google ads. He is an LA native with a penchant for escape rooms.

Raid Base Pre-Launch

Developing an open world sandbox MMO.

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  • Co-investers a16z Dreamhaven
  • Partnered 2021
  • Industry Games
Founder(s)
Stephen Lim Product Director & Co-founder

Slim is a product designer who served as project lead and VP of R&D roles at Riot Games for 8 years. He custom built multiple teams of over 100 developers around specific player needs and together, as a co-founder of VALORANT with Trevor, developed a thesis process for defining new game ideas and helping them persist through years of development, hundreds of obstacles, and a barrage of competitors. He feels lucky to have learned from and fought alongside other developers at Riot and Blizzard, trying to do the right by players, and carries that commitment forward into Raid Base.

Trevor Romleski Game Director and Co-founder

Starting his career as a Game Designer at Riot Games, Trevor worked on League of Legends, doing live balance & reworks during season 1 & 2, and created champions that expanded the game roster. Trevor was a co-founder of VALORANT, working on a large span of systems and content for the game, and led the design team through launch.

Sesame Labs Public

Growth engine for web3 games.

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  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry NFT Infrastructure
Founder(s)
Vinay Jain

Vinay Jain is the co-founder and CEO of Sesame Labs. Previously he was a PM lead for Facebook Pages, connecting 120M Businesses and 2B users monthly. Previously, he built and grew Facebook Leads Ads to a $1B ARR in 3 years from scratch. He was a founding team member of the WhatsApp Business API, which drives $100M+ ARR. He co-founded a developer tools startup in the past and has been an active crypto investor since 2013.

Aman Jain

Aman Jain is the co-founder and CTO of Sesame Labs. Previously he was a Founder at Meta’s Innovation Lab, where we launched three consumer products in 2 years. Previously, he was a tech lead for Twitter’s Custom Audience product, which accounted for ~10% of overall revenue. Also, he was a founding team member of the WhatsApp Business API that drove $100M+ ARR.

Spacecaps Public

Spacecaps is a company builder launching player focused businesses across the gaming ecosystem.

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  • Co-investers Kora Capital
  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry Games
Founder(s)
Bruno Bittencourt Co-Founder

Bruno is a gaming creator turned entrepreneur that leverages his experience to empower the next generation of gamers. Featured on Forbes 30 under 30, he has become widely known as a mobile gaming ambassador in Brazil. Bruno spends his time playing with his dog and talking to new creators and builders alike.

Matt Ho Co-Founder

Matthew is a lifelong gamer who previously spent three years building esports and creator programs at Super Evil Megacorp. His passion for creative and strategy was later channeled into Loud, which saw the organization expand into the seven businesses under Spacecaps today. Matthew likes to spend his time experimenting and learning about new consumer experiences enabled by web3.

Jean Ortega Co-Founder

Jean is a social media wizard and champions the meta of social media strategies used by gaming organizations today. Leading Operations, Jean has worked hands-on across Spacecaps companies where he scaled operations from 10 people to over 300. You can find Jean jamming away in FPS titles or at the local skatepark.

StoryCo Public

Shaping web3 through storytelling, experiences, and community.

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  • Co-investers Collab+Currency
  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry Media
Founder(s)
Justin Alanis

Justin believes that the greater levels of collaboration, access, and ownership made available by Web3 will result in the discovery of new, dynamic creators and stories. He serves as a core community member at several DAOs that promote, invest, and foster emerging DAOs including Seed Club, Metacartel Ventures, and Own.Fund. Before his career in Web3, Justin was the Founder and CEO of Rentlytics, a data analytics technology company that was acquired by RealPage in 2018. Before venturing into the world of technology startups, Justin was a Partner at a Private Equity firm. Justin is also an active investor in Web3 startups.

JP Alanis

J.P. began his career in television development at Lionsgate Entertainment working on a slate of shows that included Mad Men and Orange is the New Black. He then went on to co-create and lead Tyler, The Creator’s direct-to-consumer media venture and production company GOLF MEDIA. There he oversaw content development, product and technology, as well as sales of incubated projects to linear television, including The Jellies (Adult Swim) and Nuts & Bolts (Viceland).

Tonic Public

Track music practice, share work-in-progress, and celebrate moments in your learning journey.

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  • Partnered 2021
  • Industry Education
Founder(s)
Ray Chen Co-founder & CEO

Ray Chen leads growth and community teams at Tonic. He is an internationally renowned musician, content creator, and community builder. Prior to Tonic, he recorded award-winning albums with Universal Music, Riot Games, and Sony Music

Rose Xi Co-founder & CTO

Rose Xi leads product, engineering, and design teams. Prior to Tonic, she co-founded predictive analytics company Remedy Health. Rose is an alumna of Princeton University and the DesignerFund Bridge Fellowship.

Tonic.xyz Public

Generative fine art marketplace with the goal of bringing digital art to the masses.

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  • Partnered 2023
  • Industry Marketplace
Founder(s)
Susannah Maybank CEO

Susannah is the former Head of Digital at leading global fine arts gallery Gagosian. She recently completed her MBA at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University prior to co-founding Tonic.

Mariam Naficy Co-founder/Chairman

Mariam is the former founder and CEO of leading design marketplace Minted. She most recently founded Heretic Ventures where she is focused on funding and building culture-defining companies.

Winter Public

Winter is building a checkout service for businesses to sell NFTs via credit card.

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  • Co-investers South Park Commons Global Founders Capital Goodwater
  • Partnered 2022
  • Industry Fintech
Founder(s)
Michael Luo CEO & Co-founder

Hey I'm Michael! I've been in crypto since 2014 (mainly gambling) and have always been excited by blockchain tech. Before Winter, I was a product manager at Facebook and an engineer at Zillow!