Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) for investing in non fungible tokens (NFTs) used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The organization’s mission is to create the biggest virtual world economy, optimizing its community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing its profits with its token holders.

Yield Guild Games

Valor is an investment firm that focuses on cross-border financial and investment opportunities. The firm operates across two investment strategies Growth Equity and Venture Capital. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Valor Capital Group

BITKRAFT Ventures was founded in 2015 by german serial entrepreneur, Jens Hilgers. BITKRAFT’s team is located in Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, Madrid and Lisbon covering videogames and esports investments not only digitally but in the most relevant and busy metropoles for digital entertainment in the Western world.

BITKRAFT Ventures

Arrington XRP Capital is a digital asset management firm in blockchain-based capital markets. The company was founded in 2017.

Arrington XRP Capital

Fabric is a venture contributor building and backing the boldest ideas in Web 3, to create a more fair, productive and sustainable economy—an Open Economy.

Fabric Ventures

Volt Capital is a digital financial platform. They provide services for market cycles, ecosystems, and networks. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.

Volt Capital

We are ParaFi, an alternative asset management and technology firm that operates liquid and venture strategies focused on the digital asset ecosystem. Founded in 2018, ParaFi was among the earliest institutional investors in the blockchain industry and has evolved into a trusted partner by leading institutions globally.

ParaFi Capital

Arca is an institutional grade financial services firm building products utilizing and investing in digital assets. The Arca team blends the time-tested attributes of traditional finance with the transparency, immutability, and efficiency of the blockchain to create institutional-caliber products designed to seamlessly allow today's' investors to transition into the digitally-powered global economy of the future.

Arca

BitScale invest in teams and solutions that bring transparency and efficiency to our world with cutting-edge technologies.

BitScale

Ascensive Asset is a private investment firm focusing solely on digital assets industry

Ascensive Assets

SkyVision Capital (SVC) is founded with the mission to promote new, open decentralized technology and its development. We provide advisory services and a strong ecosystem to overcome barriers to allow you to succeed in your space. We will forge a strategic partnership with you to promote, develop, and deliver new, open decentralized technology and architecture. We are a Venture Capital Fund that is dedicated to incubating and investing in founders of tomorrow, today.

SkyVision Capital

Morningstar Ventures is an investment firm backing ambitious ideas by early-stage founders. Based in Dubai, Morningstar Ventures focuses primarily on the blockchain and digital assets space and is led by Chief Investment Officer Danilo S. Carlucci. The firm is active in both token investments and equity investments and has a particularly strong focus on the Elrond ecosystem. In October 2021 Morningstar Ventures launched the Elrond Dubai Incubator to support projects building with Elrond technology.

Morningstar Ventures

IVC (Infinity Ventures Crypto) is a Web3 venture capital firm that invests in pioneering game, Web3, infrastructure, and DeFi projects. IVC leverages its global connections to innovate, build, and propel forward the next generation of founders.

Infinity Ventures Crypto

Eden Holdings operates as a venture capital firm.

Eden Holdings

We believe crypto-economic systems unlock a fundamentally new form of human coordination, allowing disparate entities to self-organize at massive scale. For the first time, the network effects of large platforms can be reproduced without their associated costs. At its core, this technology is a disintermediation force whose radical proliferation has only just begun.

Delphi Ventures

BAYZ

MetaSoccer is an earn-to-play online soccer metaverse.

Footium is a web3 Football management game that allows players to become the owner, manager and scout for their very own metaverse football club, and earn prizes based on their success!

BAYZ is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on bringing people into the metaverse through blockchain gaming and play-to-earn engagement. With a focus on content and competition, BAYZ partners with leading publishers, content creators and gamers to help people engage with leading NFT-based games such as Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, Ember Sword and Big Time to help build the jobs of the future and reward people for doing what they love.

BAYZ is a community-owned and operated gaming guild that aims to utilize blockchain technologies in content creation and esports. The company expects to promote play-to-earn gaming globally and onboard new players to the metaverse and its community within the global blockchain gaming ecosystem, starting with Brazil, by building out its content pipeline and infrastructure platform.

A foundational component to the next generation of digital entertainment.

Esports

Twitch Co-Founder Kevin Lin Joins BAYZ Board

MetaSoccer

Footium

BACKED VC

IVC Venture Capital

Entrée Capital

Animoca Brands

Stride.VC

Concept Ventures

Merit Circle

BlackPool

BAYZ is a community-owned and operated gaming guild that aims to utilize blockchain technologies in content creation and esports. The company expects to promote play-to-earn gaming globally and onboard new players to the metaverse and its community within the global blockchain gaming ecosystem, starting with Brazil, by building out its content pipeline and infrastructure platform.In December 2021, BAYZ raised USD 4 million in a seed funding round led by Yield Guild Games with participation from Valor Capital, Ascensive Assets, Fabric Ventures, Arca, BITKRAFT, and Delphi Digital, and angel investors. The fresh funds will go toward investments and partnerships to improve BAYZ’s market position in the NFT gaming industry, hiring, and the BAYZ community.Key competitors : None comparable (Bayz's focus on blockchain and content creation is unique).

Stakester is a platform for gamers to compete against one another for cash prizes. The platform was launched in May 2020 and is currently available in 38 US states, the UK, and Singapore. As of November 2020, the platform has more than 15,000 users. Stakester has also established partnerships with ESL (Electronic Sports League) and GameByte (competitive gaming community).Stakester’s management includes Gary J. Foreman (co-founder of Rockstar Games) and Alan Patmore (former EVP and GM at Humble Bundle, GM of Mafia Wars and CityVille at Zynga), who joined as a strategic advisor and board member in June 2020.In November 2020, the company raised USD 2.7 million in seed funding led by RTP Global with participation from angel investors Jens Lapinski (CEO of Angel Invest and former MD of Techstars) and Chris Adelsbach (founding partner at Outrun Ventures and venture partner at Techstars). The funds will be used to grow its community by increasing the value of prizes on the platform. In addition, the company plans to expand its platform to Australia and Germany in the near future.

Stakester

Peru-based ESGPlay operates an esports platform that creates competitive esports tournaments.

ESGPlay

eMasters is a Brazilian esports platform that facilitates the creation of esports competitions with cash prizes. The platform supports games including League of Legends, Dota 2, and FIFA 19.

eMasters

Gaming Frog is a console based online esports tournament platform. The platform offers single player and multiplayer competitive matchups for cash prizes in FIFA.The platform officially launched in August 2019 and since has seen over 1,500 matches being played on the platform.Since launch, the platform claims to have attracted 3,500 users. The company has raised USD 150,000 from friends and family and is in the process of raising a USD 400,000 seed round. The company outlined plans to launch on Android, expand its development team, integrate artificial intelligence (AI), introduce a membership model and bring in NBA and Madden games into the platform.

Gaming Frog

NAG Studios is a Swedish startup focused on creating esports games and platforms. It was founded by esports and gaming industry veterans Peter Stahl (former head of development at Resolution Games, a game studio focused on augmented and virtual reality) and Johan Skott (former esports product owner at Tobii Tech, a unit of technology company Tobii AB). NAG’s vision entails building an esports game and platform which will incorporate the community (i.e., professional players, streamers, broadcasters, and viewers) from the beginning of the development process.The company raised USD 1 million in an extended pre-seed funding round led by London Venture Partners in October 2020. The company aims to use the funds to build its development team.

NAG Studios

Companies facilitating communication among esports players or between players and esports communities during gameplay.

Companies operating esports arenas and providing technical expertise for hosting and broadcasting competitive leagues and tournaments. 

Companies facilitating competitive online and in-person esports tournaments.

Companies producing and broadcasting esports related content.

Companies recruiting players to form professional teams and rosters for esports tournaments and leagues.

Companies developing esports related titles.

Commonly used in the tournament platforms segment to match players of equal skill

BAYZ

About EDGE

Contact Us

Resources

Area of Focus

Technology Research Made Effortless