LVP is a venture capital seed fund with a difference - they're operating experts in the games sector, and they only ever invest in the games ecosystem. That means they bring real experience and deep understanding. They speak the same language, share the same references, understand the same challenges - and they believe in the same vision. They know instinctively where the opportunities lie; where there are strengths to be harnessed and exposures to be covered. In fine-grain, no-hiding, straight-talking detail. They know when to bide time, when to iterate and when to go wide. And how. They invest in people. That means founders with the potential to build the best in the world; teams with terrific, creative games development skills, or fantastic ideas for revolutionary games technology or services… and a vision that sets them apart.

Troy Capital Partners is an early stage venture capital firm. They invest in technology businesses across SaaS, consumer internet, digital media, AR/VR, retail and e-commerce.

Troy Capital Partners

Abstract is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco with $1.5 billion in assets under management. We are sector-agnostic, focused on seed and early stage founders. Our reputation among founders is built on fierce loyalty, unparalleled connections, and a relentless drive to help them win.

Abstract

Bossa Invest manages investment portfolios and provides asset management services to clients. It analyzes market trends to inform investment decisions. Bossa Invest serves multiple sectors, including finance, technology, and real estate.

Bossa Invest

Evolution VC Partners invest and partner with disruptive companies with a strong team, product, and market opportunity.  They help entrepreneurs build great companies and consider themselves to be investment accelerators and will seek to be active creators of value for their portfolio companies.

Evolution VC Partners

500 Startups Vietnam provide finance, mentorship, and connections to both global and regional startups. 500 Startups Vietnam startups have gone on to raise capital from such renowned investors as Sequoia, Social Capital, Stanford StartX, Google Launchpad, and more.

500 Startups Vietnam

Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YG Entertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260),  Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.

Korea Investment Partners

500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm with $2.4 billion in assets under management. The firm invests in founders who are building fast-growing technology companies. It focuses on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can generate long-term value and economic growth. 500 Global collaborates with key stakeholders and provides advisory services to governments on fostering entrepreneurial ecosystems to support startups. The firm has invested in over 5,000 founders and more than 2,800 companies across 80+ countries. It has funded over 35 companies valued at more than $1 billion and over 160 companies valued at over $100 million, including those that are private, public, or have exited. The team consists of over 190 members based in more than 25 countries, with experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from leading technology companies.

500 Global

Runa Capital is a technology-focused venture capital firm managing two funds – Runa I was launched with $135M in 2010 and has made 33 investments,  Runa II of $135M was launched in 2014 and has made 30 investmerns and Runa III was started in 2019 and is in active investment stage right now.  The fund was established to seek early stage opportunities in the rapidly growing tech sector, with the specific focus on deeptech (AI, ML, open-source), future of computing, fintech infrastructure and enterprise software. Runa brings a team with extensive operational experience and is focused on finding growth businesses that generate revenues, supporting them in the global marketplace and turning them into international champions. Founded by Ilya Zubarev, Serg Bell (founders of Parallels and Acronis) and Dmitry Chikhachev (Ericsson, Ritzio, Uvenco) Runa Capital is run by a team of successful entrepreneurs, most of whom have worked together for over 15 years. It is a united team with broad geographical and cross-industry experience, as well as an extensive professional network. Runa Capital investment team members possess an excellent track record in tech investments.

Runa Capital

Modern Times Group is an international entertainment group. Their operations span six continents and include TV channels and platforms, online services, content production businesses, and radio stations.

Modern Times Group

Mirae Asset Global Investments is a global asset manager providing innovative investment solutions to clients worldwide. The company originally established in Asia in 1997 has since expanded its presence in 12 countries from Australia to Hong Kong to the United States. Their goal is to provide their clients with insightful financial strategies for all of their investing and financial needs. Their scope of services includes traditional equity & fixed income products, ETFs, and other alternative strategies like hedge funds. They strive to maintain a diversified platform that will benefit their clients and allow us to offer an insightful and research-driven approach to managing their assets.

Mirae Asset

MTG  is a development and sales of beauty equipment, cosmetics and fitness equipment.

Ophir Capital Group is a private investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles.

Ophir Capital Group

Breakaway Growth Fund (''BGF'') is a venture capital firm that invests in and supports bold founders helping them throughout the startup journey to global dominance. BGF’s leadership team has decades of experience leading and investing in capital-efficient growth startups that have created over $50 billion in shareholder value including investments in DocuSign, Juniper Networks, Pinterest, Supercell, Turo, and Unity Technologies.  BGF is a venture firm reimagined from the ground up to deliver only on what matters to founders of extraordinary potential. We ONLY invest in the 0.3% highest performing companies using proprietary metrics. We use a unique capital formation structure to ensure these founders have the support, both people and capital, to build extraordinary companies growing faster and using less capital to do it - this is Breakaway Growth!

BreakawayGrowth Fund

Sand Hill Angels is a group of Silicon Valley angel investors passionate about helping entrepreneurs get to the next level. What makes the group unique is the collective experience of its members building and scaling deep technology companies. The group has been around for more than two decades. Sand Hill Angels works openly and collaboratively with venture capital funds, other angel organizations, and the Bay Area ecosystem that fosters the growth of technology startups.  For additional information, visit www.sandhillangels.com or follow @SandHillAngels.com on Twitter.

Sand Hill Angels

A fundamental investment philosophy of ‘Building on principles’ guides us at Mirae Asset. Over the years, these principles have enabled us to become Asia’s premier financial group and created new trends in the Asian capital market.  Above all, we put our clients’ interests first, always adhering to high ethical standards. Because our success clearly comes from their success, we use fundamental investment principles to identify opportunities that generate value and lasting profits.  We are strong believers in teamwork and are determined to recruit the best and brightest people as we open new horizons in Asia and expand globally. Just as we strive to continually improve our own performance, Mirae Asset is committed to helping every community it joins.  On behalf of the entire Mirae Asset Financial Group, I would like to convey the sense of responsibility your trust in us merits and pledge to do all that we can to exceed your expectations.

Mirae Asset Venture Investment

xVentures scours the globe for new and exciting entertainment services. Their ambition is to find and develop digital entertainment products that complement their existing ones, as well as to discover brand new concepts. They are looking to partner with, or invest in, innovative companies within online entertainment and e-commerce. Do you run a related startup? Don’t hesitate to let us know. They’re passionate about building a future with you and have the means to accelerate the growth of your business.  They help you grow by leveraging MTG’s extensive international presence and scope, across their more than 35 operating countries. They provide resources from all parts of their business. This means they can support you and your startup with marketing power across multiple countries, creative solutions and format development, as well as pure development support from their xLabs teams. Finally, they have the ability to offer financial support for your company, in order to take it to the next level.

MTGx

iller Partners offers co-founding and funding possibilities for seed and early-stage ventures.

Tiller Partners

Manta Ray Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund backing mission-driven founders that provides flexible and patient capital, leveraging time, resources, and networks resources and networks as far as possible to support its portfolio companies.

Manta Ray Ventures

Rainier Partners is a Seattle-based private equity firm with over $375 million in assets under management that invests in lower middle-market services businesses. We look for opportunities where we can actively support business owners and management teams by providing growth capital, operational resources, and strategic partnership. We focus on industries in which we have extensive experience, a network of partners, and deep resources: business services, consumer services, industrial services, and financial services. We typically invite the founders or management teams of our portfolio companies to invest alongside us to align interests. Please visit www.rainierpartners.com for more information.

Rainier Partners

Raine Ventures is an early stage fund managed by The Raine Group. The firm has offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, London and Shanghai. With a global reach, Raine focuses on investment and advisory opportunities where its deep industry experience and unique network of strategic relationships can create value for portfolio companies and clients.

Raine Ventures

ELEVATION CAPITAL: ​ Galaxy Venture Capital (GVC) provides startups and early stage companies with the collaborative elevation capital and entity-wide infrastructure support needed to garner true scalable enterprise value.  GVC invests in proof-of-concept and market-validated products and takes a hands-on approach with its investments. GVC Partners have salient expertise in global consumer packaged goods (CPG), internet, eCommerce, mobile, biotech, media and entertainment. GVC leverages its synergistic global networks, seasoned venture partners, investors and entrepreneurs to form a consortium of market experts and players.  GVC launched Galaxy I, LP as an investment vehicle to allow clients the opportunity to invest in some of the best early stage U.S. companies. Galaxy I is a designed to target 30-50 Early growth companies with an initial investment ranging from $500K - $2MM over the 5 year investment period.

Galaxy Venture Capital

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital to date.  The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

BLN Capital is the Single Family Office of Daniel Stammler, Oliver Löffler and Janosch Sadowski, the founders of Kolibri Games, a Berlin-based mobile gaming studio. They sold their majority stake in Kolibri Games to Ubisoft in February 2020. BLN invests opportunistically across asset classes with a focus on public and private equity. We invest into funds and make direct investments. Our direct investments include early-stage investments such as Jodel, Tellonym, PowerUs and Fastic, as well as later-stage investments such as Apponboard, Robinhood and Kraken.

BLN Capital

AppOnboard

AppOnboard is a Los Angeles-based software company empowering creators to build businesses without any programming experience. The company offers two no-code products: Buildbox, the largest no-code mobile game engine, and AppOnboard Studio, a mobile, interactive design studio that enables anyone to create playable ads and app prototypes.

<div>AppOnBoard is a no-code development platform (NDP) for building interactive mobile games. The company offers Buildbox, a no-code mobile development tool that enables users to create 2D and 3D games. Users can choose from a range of templates and a drag-and-drop interface to build 2D games or use smart assets that include animations and pre-built logic to build more advanced 3D games. Buildbox also offers a marketplace platform that enables users to to sell assets such as 3D and 2D models and UI elements to other users.</div>

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No-code Software

AppOnboard raises $20 million for no-code game creation

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• AppOnboard and Google are collaborating to add bring playable demos directly into the Google Play store with a “try now” button.

Platforms and tools that enable users to build mobile-based apps using templates and tools (widgets) in a visual environment.

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 AppOnBoard is a no-code development platform (NDP) for building interactive mobile games. The company offers Buildbox, a no-code mobile development tool that enables users to create 2D and 3D games. Users can choose from a range of templates and a drag-and-drop interface to build 2D games or use smart assets that include animations and pre-built logic to build more advanced 3D games. Buildbox also offers a marketplace platform that enables users to to sell assets such as 3D and 2D models and UI elements to other users. 
 
 
 Moreover, the platform enables users to earn ad revenue by publishing their games on the Google PlayStore. Users can also export playable demos directly into their mobile devices to test, review, and make adjustments. 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In January 2021, AppOnBoard raised USD 20 million in funding, led by Raine Ventures. The newly raised funds are to be used to expand the company&rsquo;s workforce and focus on creator-centric initiatives. 
 
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Index offers a no-code platform for enterprises to build dashboards for internal use to obtain insights on business metrics, investor updates and operation overviews, among others. As of June 2021, the product remains at beta, with a limited early preview. The platform provides prebuilt templates, and also has tools for users to build their own dashboards. The dashboard can be integrated with multiple apps including Hubspot ((customer relationship management data), Stripe (payment data), and Postgres and MongoDB (databases), slack (remote working) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets), among others. The company raised USD 2.6 million in Seed funding in October 2020. It intends to invest the funds in hiring two engineers (in addition to the two founders) and continuing to refine and develop the product. The founders aim to reach USD 1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expand their product distribution.

Index

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 Stencyl offers a drag-and-drop no-code platform that enables users to create and publish web and mobile games. Users can build their game logic using the platform&rsquo;s pre-built code blocks, design visual elements via an in-built graphics editor, and publish across a range of platform&rsquo;s such as IoS, Android, Windows and Mac. Moreover,&nbsp; Stencyl also enables users to embed ads into their games as a secondary source of revenue.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 As of February 2024, Stencyl was used by over 500,000 registered developers. Apps created on Stencyl have reached top slots in the Apple App Store and Google Play, and its most successful web games have been sponsored by major publishers including ArmorGames, Kongregate, and Newgrounds.
 
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Stencyl

Universe offers a no-code platform for users to build websites that can be added to social media pages. Websites can be built using drag and drop blocks to add images, videos, and other content to create a mobile-first website. The Platform offers creative controls, 30 pre-made themes, and block features to allow users to create a custom site and/or open an e-commerce store directly from a mobile phone.The company began as a landing page builder and progressed to developing websites, which include tools for adding shopping blocks. Universe targets micro businesses that are not tech-savvy.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20509">In July 2023 </a>, Universe launched the beta version of Generative Universe Sites (GUS), an AI-powered website designing tool. This solution provides a conversational interface for users to dictate their requirements for a website and then generates a customized web page.Funding and financialsIn December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company’s block-based system for website building named “GRID,” expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. Additionally, the company used the funds to expand its reach in new markets and grow its employee base.

Universe

Readymag is a web-based drag and drop tool that enables users to create websites, presentations and digital magazines. Its customers include large enterprises such as AirBnB, Forbes, Esquire, and IDEO.

Readymag

UserGuiding is a user onboarding tool that helps create interactive guides for customers. Functions include user onboarding, feature adoption, in-product messaging, and customer feedback, among others. As of September 2020, the company had over 2,000 global enterprise clients. UserGuiding raised USD 1.1 million in seed funding in August 2020, which it intends to use to expand its operations by increasing its workforce, accelerating global expansion, and enhancing product development.

UserGuiding

Allows users to create apps for their own businesses by using their data and ideas and converting them into apps to improve their workflow.

Platforms that allow users to create online/mobile games in a no-code environment.

Platforms that let users create workflow and process management systems in a spreadsheet format integrating with databases. This also includes data science tools, which enable users to run predictive analysis on data sets through drag-and-drop functions using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Tools that allow users to build websites, ranging from blogs to e-commerce sites, in a visual environment without the need for coding. Often has no-code tools to integrate with other online tools, such as payment gateways.

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their no-code product offering

Offers solutions for building internal applications and automations for enterprises

Many solutions enable users to leverage AI/ML for predictive analytics

Offers solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

Some solutions leverage GenAI to enable users to build application and website templates without coding

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