Top 30 Video Games Startup Investors in Hong Kong in October 2023

Seedthrift Ventures incubate early phases of blockchain with capital, support, and promotion.

Investment focus

Software, Training, Education
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Safeverse — Safeverse is a training, Learning, and Education to equip people for future jobs in the metaverse and real life.
AdLunam, Inc. — Engage to Earn NFT-integrated Proof of Attention IDO Launchpad for the Web3 Attention Economy
Astra Guild Ventures — Astra Guild Ventures is one of the world's play-to-earn gaming guilds. Astra Guild Ventures is bridging the gap between players and investors in order to capitalize on the growth of non-traditional games.

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Blockchain focused. Web3, DeFi. Gaming, DAO. Layer 2, anything.

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Blockchain
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

MagicCraft /New Generation Game — MagicCraft is an exciting multiplayer PvP MOBA blockchain game: fast moving multiplayer battles. Earn through our in game cryptocurrency. Free to play and play to earn options for all.

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vEmpire is a venture capital investment firm.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Ethereum
Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
Chibi Dinos — 10,000 Chibi Dinos on 10 different teams looking for a new home. Coming August 20th at 6 pm PST.

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True Global Ventures is a unique, international, early-stage vehicle formed by the world's leading technology entrepreneurs-turned-angel-investors. True Global Ventures leverages the personal networks and expertise of its founders to support the next generation of superstar entrepreneurs.Founded by Dušan Stojanović, awarded BusinessAngel of the Year in Europe in 2013 and nominated as one of the top four angels in 2009 by the European Business Angel Network, the True Global Ventures team includes entrepreneur-angels from mainly Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Silicon Valley and New York. With every partner having deep startup operating experience and successful exits as entrepreneurs, as well as the investment expertise that comes from having completed prior to True Global Ventures a combined total of over 350 angel investments, True Global Ventures gives new meaning to the term 'smart money'.They do invest money but on top of the money they are specialised in 5 areas: 1. Bringing in Customers and Partners 2. Internationalise the company 3. Help refinance the company with introductions of traditional VC, Loans and Private Equity Firms 4. Help acquiring companies as well as exiting the company 5. Recruiting in general and especially of engineers.True Global Ventures typically invests from USD 100 000 to USD 600 000 into very early stage companies lead exclusively by serial entrepreneurs, and then provides them with hands-on assistance and access to the extensive personal networks of the True Global Ventures partners. The investment vehicule is focused on highly scalable Internet, software and mobile applications, with companies that are headquartered in Silicon Valley, New York, Berlin, Paris, Stockholm, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and who can make optimal use of the international perspective that True Global Ventures brings to the table. True Global Ventures does not invest in Hardware, Cleantech and Medtech.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Pinktada — Buy a trip using Pinktada marketplace and enjoy travel flawlessly.
By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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The Road Not Taken

Investment focus

Information Technology, Blockchain, Software
Funding Round, Seed, Series B
South Korea, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
KTX Finance — KTX Finance is an online trading platform. It provides permissionless, decentralized on-chain trade of perpetuals.
Puzzle Monsters — Puzzle Monsters is a game production company.

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Read writing from ArkStream Capital on Medium. Crypto-native web3 venture fund. Accelerate the decentralization on ARK. Every day, ArkStream Capital and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

ReadON — ReadON's mission is to reshape digital reading behaviors in Web3 and Crypto through the use of Game-Fi mechanisms and systems.
Smooth Labs — SmoothLabs is a blockchain infrastructure service provider,
Magpie Protocol — Swap crypto assets efficiently between any chains, without the need to bridge. Magpie is fast, secure and easy-to-use. Compatible with 6+ chains, and more to come.

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We are a multi-family office platform with a highly active ecosystem of financial institutions and partners to provide customized wealth management services. Rockpool’s unique in-house Chief Investment Office (CIO) is a part of our DNA, ensuring institutional rigor is firmly at the heart of everything that we do. Established in 2017 by a team ofexperienced investment professionals, Rockpool Capital is guided by its founding vision to connect, serve, and champion the unique and changing investment needs of Asia’s emerging and next generations.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Hong Kong, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Bishop Fox — Bishop Fox, the leader in offensive security, continuous pen testing, red teaming, attack surface management, and traditional security assessments.
Aspen Digital — Aspen Digital is the gateway to Digital Asset allocation, an innovative technology-driven platform that empowers asset and wealth managers to offer / invest into digital asset products with confidence.
FreeWire Technologies — FreeWire Technologies provides smart battery systems for EV charging and mobile distributed power. It provides clean, quiet mobile power, and fast charging that’s available and easy to deploy. The company's products deliver power wherever and whenever users need it, without the added costs of construction or infrastructure upgrades. Thecompany merges designs with convenient services to electrify industries formerly dependent on fossil fuels. FreeWire customers can tackle new applications and execute new business models without the complexity of upgrading traditional energy infrastructure.It also creates beautifully designed products and convenient services to electrify industries formerly dependent on fossil fuels. Their comprehensive solutions provide energy delivery and management that customers can rely on every day. The company is backed by venture capital firms and global fortune 500 companies.FreeWire Technologies was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Leandro, California.

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Kenetic is a proprietary trading and VC investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain related companies. They have developed technology to facilitate their quantitative trading strategies and offer various digital asset related structured products to counterparts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Degame — Degame is an NFT gaming platform that provides token analytics, tracking, research, gaming strategy, and IGO.
Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad

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Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba

Investment focus

Health Care, Wellness, Video Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Finland, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Talewind — Talewind is a professional UK games studio focused on creating incredible experiences for the metaverse.
Revery — The team at Revery is on a mission to make access to wellness affordable and accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, through the medium of gaming.
Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.

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Daniel Shin is a renowned entrepreneur and investor, with extensive expertise and deep relationships in e-commerce. Daniel Shin is the Founder and CEO of PortOne Global, a leading payment company in Asia and beyond. The company's mission is to empower digital commerce partners across the Asian region. Through PortOne Global, Daniel Shinassists in the growth and development of partner companies and facilitates expansion.Previously, Daniel founded and was CEO of TicketMonster, Korea's leading e-commerce platform with $3.5Bin GMV. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of Fast Track Asia, a company-builder that established and sold multiple businesses including Fast Five (office sharing platform) and FoodFly (food delivery, acquired by Yogiyo).Daniel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Series A
South Korea, United States, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.
Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
Korea Credit Data — • Korea Credit Data (KCD) provides business management solution to small and medium-sized businesses in Korea. KCD established a dominant position (M/S 70%+) through ‘Cashnote' and ‘Bizbot’ services used by more than 1.1 million businesses. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of his business life.To this end, KCD will expand its business areas to include B2B commerce to B2C payment area.

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Smile is Asia’s leading platform that builds internet businesses with passionate entrepreneurs. We partner with fast-growing companies for their expansion and invest in disruptive companies.Business Building We build and operate companies across multiple domains such as digital media, consumer internet, SaaS and more. We operate Tyroo, APAC’sLargest Multi-Screen Performance Network and SingleInterface, a location-based marketing company for multi-location enterprise retail brands. Some notable ones are as follows: -> Quasar sold to WPP -> SVG Media sold to Dentsu Aegis Network -> Squad Digital sold to Scan GroupPartnerships (Katalyzers) We partner with fast growing technology companies to expand their business overseas. Our partnerships include Airbnb, WPP(Prodigi/Hogarth India), WPP Africa and moreInvestments We enable entrepreneurship by investing in disruptive companies. Our investments include Letsbuy.com, HackerEarth, Scoopwhoop, Yumlane, Rapido, Wealthy, The Man Company, Bira 91, Little Eye Labs and more Say Hello! info@smile.co.in

Investment focus

Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Spyne — Remove background from any product image in seconds 100% automatically. No editing skills required! Single-click to change the image background.
Swiggy — Order food online from restaurants and get it delivered. Serving in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Gurgaon, Nagpur, Jaipur, Coimbatore, Chandigarh, Ahemdabad, Visakhapatnam, Lucknow, Noida, Mumbai, Pune, Indore, Kochi, Kolkata and Chennai. Order Pizzas, Burgers, Biryanis, Desserts or order from Subway, Pizza Hut, Dominos, KFC, McDonalds.
LanguifyAI — Languify is an AI based language learning assistant which analyses, corrects, and tracks a user's spoken and written English across all platforms. The AI assistant prompts feedback and nudges that improve conversations in real-time that enable improvisation on the spot without any delay. It also enables users to learn at their own pace throughpersonalized learning plans and games designed to minimize repetition of errors.

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NGC Ventures has been investing in blockchain since 2017, with an investment thesis driven by infrastructure. We are an early-stage VC fund, among others, we invested early into Ziliqa, Solana, Avalanche, Filecoin. We have a global team of crypto natives that offers support and insights into token design, go-to-market and more.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
Amulet Protocol — Simple, Reliable Cover For Everyone in Web3
Xverse — Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. Earn BTC, trade Ordinals, and connect to Web3 apps powered by Stacks. Download for iOS, Android and Chrome.

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At Winklevoss Capital, we believe in determined entrepreneurs. Risk-taking is just in their blood. By providing guidance, relationships and capital, we reinforce their pursuit of a frictionless world and a better human experience. Because those who dare to fail greatly, dare to achieve greatly.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hume — Hume provides a web3 record label creating music-driven metastars.
GamerGains Lab — GamerGains Labs is the first-ever token and cryptocurrency-based play and earn platform serving traditional gamers – a community of hundreds of millions of people around the world that enjoy playing on PCs and consoles such as Xbox and PlayStation. Offering an easy-to-use interface, the innovative platform will allow members to earn crypto withconfidence through an automated contest lifecycle, which is impartial, transparent, and features instant payout settlement.
Holocron Technologies — Holocron Technologies uses publicly available information to monitor global science and technology developments

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FANTOM is the world's first DAG based smart contract platform.

Portfolio highlights

Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
MagicCraft /New Generation Game — MagicCraft is an exciting multiplayer PvP MOBA blockchain game: fast moving multiplayer battles. Earn through our in game cryptocurrency. Free to play and play to earn options for all.

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Delta Blockchain Fund

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Canada, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Kolibrio — Node providers, wallets, and bridges connect to Kolibrio BEV relay to improve user experience and maximize value proposition by returning MEV to back the users.
NORTHSTAKE — Providing institutional investors with access to future economies through secure and trustworthy investment pathways for digital assets
Monitaur — Reduce operational overhead, improve security, optimize performance, and deliver amazing customer experiences with our end-to-end, hybrid observability & APM platform built for decentralized apps and infrastructure.

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Jr. Jon Bond

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Video Games
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.

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Metaverse & NFT gaming consultancy. Project incubation, capital & advisory #playtoearn

Investment focus

Gaming, Blockchain, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Hong Kong, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Inery — First-Ever Decentralized Database Management
Moonray — Moonray is a next-generation 3rd person action game built in Unreal Engine 5 and Ethereum
Myria — Myria is a decentralised Ethereum Layer 2, built to empower digital assets, NFT and blockchain gaming.

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Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, India, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
Orbofi — Create and monetize AI-generated images and assets for games, media, and AI NFTs. Create your own finetuned AI models.
Volare Finance — Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.

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Global Investors in Transformative Technologies

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Dapi — Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.
Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
Moon Mortgage — Crypto backed mortgage provider

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Ion Pacific invests creative capital in the technology sector to galvanize opportunities, connect markets and tackle the challenges of building a great business. As the technology sector has grown and matured, venture capital LPs, GPs, corporate venture capital funds and technology companies face new challenges that require creative capitalsolutions. Ion Pacific has a blindpool venture capital structured secondaries fund. Ion Pacific was founded in 2015 and has offices in Hong Kong, New York City and Europe

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
Funding Round, Secondary Market, Series C
United States, Singapore, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Carbon Health — Carbon Health Provides Smart, hassle-free Primary & Urgent Care. Book same day Adult & Pediatric appointments instantly.
Chocolate Finance — Making life richer
500 Startups Vietnam — 500 Startups Vietnam is a US$14 million fund to invest in promising Vietnam-connected startups. We provide finance, mentorship, and connections to both global and regional startups.

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Yitz Applbaum

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Video Games
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.

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Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

LandVault — In-Play is a non-intrusive monetization solution for games and digital spaces that puts player experience first.
TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

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Dr. Shuji Honjo provides business consulting to Japanese and international companies, focusing on new business development, marketing, technology and innovation. He advises large corporations and investors as well as entrepreneurial companies. He is active in entrepreneurial education and community development, as a mentor with 500 Startups,Founders Institute, Net Service Ventures, Docomo Innovation Village, Fukuoka Prefecture etc.Dr. Honjo is Visiting Professor at Tama Graduate School of Business. He is also a member of the editorial committee for Japan Marketing Association.As a speaker, panelist, moderator, and contest judge, Dr. Honjo is often invited to major events such as New Economy Summit, Slush Asia, ad tech Tokyo, Nikkei, Kyoto University, Infinity Ventures Summit, B Dash Camp, and G1 Summit.Dr. Honjo authored a number of books and articles. He introduced Tony Hsieh’s “Delivering Happiness” to Japan.Dr. Honjo was born and raised in Japan. He has extensive consulting experiences with Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo and Computer Sciences Corporation in California. After BCG and CSC, he was Assistant to Chairman and Group Strategy Manager of CSK/SEGA Group, a leader in enterprise IT solutions and digital entertainment in Japan. In 1999, he founded and represented the Tokyo office of General Atlantic LLC, an IT-focused growth equity firm. Since he left Lehman Brothers Japan as SVP for principal investment in 2008, Dr. Honjo has been Managing Director, Honjo International.Dr. Honjo has Ph.D. in International Studies from Waseda University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. from the University of Tokyo.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Video Games
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.

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Master Ventures is a blockchain focused venture studio. We combine visionary ideas, exceptional talent, and investment capital to invest and build the next generation of revolutionary blockchain businesses and products.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, Singapore, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Arcade2earn — Arcade2earn is the GameFi platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn access to the ecosystem.
HitBox Games — HitBox Games was founded by industry veterans to provide dev teams around the world with a transparent and ethical publishing option.
Aether Games — Aether Games are the creative talent behind both of the widely expected NFT-based game titles: Gates of Ethernity and Cards of Ethernity. In addition, the studio's creative efforts are up to be represented by the CGI mini-series "Aether" and many more.

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Gregory Winston Slayton is an American author, diplomat, professor, businessman, and philanthropist.Born in Ohio, Slayton now resides in Hanover, New Hampshire with his wife and children. After graduating from Dartmouth College magna cum laude in 1981 Slayton was a Fulbright Scholar to Asia – earning a Masters in Asia Studies in 1982 from theUniversity of the Philippines. He then ran regional programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America for international non-profits such as World Vision International. In 1990 he graduated with honors from the Harvard Business School and then worked for McKinsey and Company for five years. Hired out of McKinsey to help run Paramount’s Technology Group in Palo Alto, California – Slayton remained in Silicon Valley for 10 years as a public and private company CEO and then a venture capitalist. As a CEO he was responsible for a number of successful turnarounds such as Paragraph International and MySoftware. As the Managing Director of Slayton Capital he was on the Board of Advisors of Google and Salesforce.com as well as Bloom Energy.

Investment focus

Gaming, Sports, Video Games
Seed
Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Kek.tv — Kek eSports app. The free app, which is in public beta, is an eSports video aggregation platform that integrates multi-source livestreams and game video replays, as well as news, statistics and tournament feeds into one socially-curated experience for the growing audience of Asian eSports fans.

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We provide early- and mid-stage venture capital and expertise for extraordinary founders in gaming, esports, and interactive media.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Luda — Lifting people through play
Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.

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Liberty City Ventures is a seed-stage fund headquartered in New York City. They invest in startups that are innovating at the cross-sections of technology, media, and commerce. Liberty City Ventures began operations in the summer of 2012 and is led by experienced technology executives and investors.They start backing promising startups at anearly stage so they can provide value and resources throughout their lifetime and fuel further growth. They commit a percentage of each partner’s time to provide value-added services to their portfolio companies using our expertise in PR, marketing, management, and operations.In addition to its general fund, Liberty City Ventures also has a dedicated Digital Currency Fund with a focus on Bitcoin. They invest in and support companies that are building the infrastructure, products, and services that will become the foundation of a new digital currency.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

TinyTap — TinyTap, the world's largest library of games by teachers, becomes a part of Animoca Brands to build an open education system on blockchain
Fuze — Embedded digital asset capabilities for financial institutions. Digital asset infrastructure - purpose-built for the Middle East.
Mocaverse — Mocaverse is the Animoca Brands membership NFT collection of 8,888 unique beings: The Mocas. Join the Mocas in the realms to Learn, Play, Do Good, and Build together as we champion our Web3 values!

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Allen DeBeviose started Third Wave in 2014 after more than 30 years experience incubating and investing in digital media companies. He has invested in over 70 digital media companies and has co-founded several of the most important digital media brands including Machinima, StyleHaul, DanceOn, INDMusic, Mitu, and Tubular Labs. Prior to foundingThird Wave, Allen built a strong track record as an Angel Investor in the digital media sector and has had over 15 high-multiple exits/NAVs. Allen is currently the Chairman of Machinima and sits on several digital media company boards including StyleHaul, MiTu, Tubular Labs, DanceOn, INDMusic, and Mondo Entertainment. He was an early investor and outside board member for several companies. LowerMyBills.com and Dealer.com are examples of two companies that had highly successful exits. He was featured on the Hollywood Reporter's Digital Power List 2009 and on Digital Media Wire's 2010 List of "25 Executives to Watch” and dubbed the Godfather of Online Video. Allen is a frequent speaker at major digital media conferences and considered an important leader in the rapidly growing Silicon Beach venture capital community.Allen has been engaged on the leading edge in the digital media / interactive arena for over three decades including working on the first uses of computer animation in entertainment ("Tron"), the first interactive video on the Mac ("Guernica"), the first interactive television trial (Time Warner Orlando) and the first broadband cable Internet prototype ("@Home").Allen has an A.B. in Mathematics and an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Investment focus

Video, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Immortals Gaming Club — Immortals, a professional esports organization with teams competing in League of Legends, League of Legends Wild Rift, and VALORANT
Waggle.tv — Keep your fido safe in your RV/Home with America's most trusted Waggle Pet Monitor. Waggle gives safety to your pets and peace of mind for you. Learn more.
Wisecrack — Wisecrack is a collective of academics, comedians and filmmakers who are endlessly curious about the world around us.

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Christopher Fisher - Managing Partner, Fund III @ Click Ventures

Investment focus

Advertising, E-Commerce, Fitness
Seed
Hong Kong, United States

Portfolio highlights

Playto — Playto offers educational tools and games for children. It offers GlowMaster, a game that helps children aged 7 to 13 learn to focus on studies.
Floship — Reduce shipping costs & time from one platform, choose Floship for you Global eCommerce fulfillment, and get closer to customers with our global facilities.
Launchpilots — Launchpilots is a marketplace that connects brands and student sponsorships. Student leaders can apply to different brand sponsorships based on their requirements via our platform.

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