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is a family operated venture firm focused on early and growth-stage investments. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States.

Chetrit Ventures

Alta Peaks Capital Management

PL Family & Friends

RRE Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies across various sectors. RRE Ventures invests in early-stage companies, often participating in Seed and Series A funding rounds. They look for innovative technology solutions and scalable business models.

RRE Ventures

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

Canaan Partners

Comcast Corporation is a global media and technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation’s largest video, high-speed internet, and phone providers to residential customers under the XFINITY brand, and also provides these services to businesses. It also offers wireless security and automation services to residential customers under the XFINITY brand. NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment, and sports cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures, and Universal Parks and Resorts.

Comcast

MacroVentures is a Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN based investment firm that provides early stage funding to startups and emerging companies. The firm was founded by Steve Nielsen.  The primary industries in which the firm invests are: Internet / Web / Technology, Manufacturing, Energy / Clean Tech, Financial and Medical.  The primary geographic locations in which the firm invests are: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, however, MacroVentures occasionally invests in promising startups outside of the midwest.

MacroVentures

Courtside Ventures invest in early-stage founders that are transforming the intersection of sports, technology, and media. Built on the backs of highly specialized sports and media entrepreneurs and investors, Courtside Ventures look to utilize their industry networks and deep domain knowledge to bring unparalleled value to their companies. They build long-term partnerships with management, by providing ongoing strategic support across all aspects of operations.

Courtside Ventures

Provides early-stage start-ups with capital and advisory services

Dutch West

MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious.  The firm invests in technology companies that benefit from shifts in cultural trends and behaviors in an increasingly diverse global marketplace. MaC VC is the result of the merger between successful Los Angeles and Bay Area-based Seed funds, Cross Culture Ventures, and M Ventures.

MaC Venture Capital

Sinai Capital is a venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm invests in software and internet founders at all stages globally.

Sinai Capital Partners

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

Pioneer Fund is a fund of 420+ Y Combinator alumni, investing in the top Y Combinator startups.

Pioneer Fund

Venture capital firm specializing in sports, gaming, and entertainment

Sharp Alpha Advisors

True Capital Management is a multi-family office that offers business management and investment advisory services. It provides a suite of services and an open architecture wealth management platform that empowers clients to grow. The company's services surrounds business and risk management, financial planning, and investment advisory. The company believes that a comprehensive life management approach is essential to creating, managing, and maintaining wealth. True Capital Management was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

True Capital Management

Diverse Angels is an angel group for current & aspiring investors from underrepresented and diverse backgrounds (People of Color, Women, LGBTQ+) to come together and share access to opportunities for ownership in early-stage tech companies. The mission to increase representation of diverse investors as a means to address the systemic wealth gaps, notably the racial wealth gap in the US. With a focus on bridging wealth gaps & disparities, Diverse Angels is a B-Corporation that is supported 100% by volunteers and charges no fees to the community though its 0/00 model.  This innovative 0/00 model (0% management fees are charged and 0% of carried interest - i.e. profit) was put into place to remove barriers and costs that could prevent diverse angels (especially first-timers) from participating in deals. The 0/00 model also ensures that the angels’ maximum amount of capital is deployed to allow for the maximum amount of upside. In search of the best founders, Diverse Angels leverages the size, strength, and diversity of its member base to maintain high standards of investment rigor. There are intentional efforts to source & meet founders from all backgrounds and it is a priority that the majority of Diverse Angels’ investments are made into Diverse Founders (People of Color, Women, LGBTQ+).

Diverse Angels

In partnership with Comcast Ventures, Catalyst Fund invests in early stage technology startups with underrepresented founders.

CV Catalyst Fund

Samsung NEXT Ventures is an investment arm of Samsung NEXT, a multifaceted innovation group within Samsung Electronics dedicated to identifying new growth opportunities that will define the next decade. The firm prefers to invest in artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, health technology, infrastructure, and media technology sectors.

Samsung NEXT

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing across the broad gaming ecosystem.

Griffin Gaming Partners

Comcast Ventures is the venture capital affiliate of Comcast Corporation and partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.

Comcast Ventures

WndrCo is a holding company that acquires, operates, and develops businesses at the intersection of technology and media.

WndrCo

Vice Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund conquering stigmas and striving towards superior returns by investing in good companies operating in ''bad'' industries.

Vice Ventures

Players' Lounge

Players' Lounge (playerslounge.co) is a social gaming startup. Their mission is to provide gamers with a platform to play their video games against others for cash and prizes.  A very small percentage of gamers are making a ton of money playing professionally, but there are millions of gamers who want to make money playing video games as well. Players' Lounge is giving this opportunity to everyone.

<div>Players’ Lounge, a Y Combinator graduate, is an esports tournament platform that connects players to compete for cash prizes. The platform provides equal opportunities to all players regardless of their skill levels and targets gamers on Xbox, PlayStation and PC and supports games such as Call of Duty, NBA, Madden, MLB, FIFA and Fortnite. The platform enables players to bet on their own performance placing wagers ranging between USD 2.5–500 on their skillful play out of which the platform takes a 10% cut. </div>

A foundational component to the next generation of digital entertainment.

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 Players’ Lounge, a Y Combinator graduate, is an esports tournament platform that connects players to compete for cash prizes. The platform provides equal opportunities to all players regardless of their skill levels and targets gamers on Xbox, PlayStation and PC and supports games such as Call of Duty, NBA, Madden, MLB, FIFA and Fortnite. The platform enables players to bet on their own performance placing wagers ranging between USD 2.5–500 on their skillful play out of which the platform takes a 10% cut. 
 
 
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 , the company raised USD 10.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Griffin Gaming Partners with participation from Comcast Ventures, Samsung Next, and Vice Ventures, among others. The funds were allocated to expand out of the sports gaming genre to launch a mobile app in Q3 2022. 
 
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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

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