Galaxy Interactive is a venture capital firm focused on interactive content and technology companies.

Galaxy Interactive

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Kleiner Perkins

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.

Animoca Brands

SVK Crypto is an institutional venture capital firm specialising in blockchain technology. The firm's unique community-driven investment approach has created a scalable, expanding global network which generates superior deal flow. With a combined 60 years experience in investment management and management consulting, SVK Crypto will take an active role in managing portfolio investments toward a successful exit. The firm's first fund, Cryptogon EOS LP, is a $50mn ecosystem venture fund launched in partnership with Block.One in October 2018. Block.One, creators of the EOS.IO blockchain protocol, completed the largest token generation event in history in 2018, raising in excess of $4bn. EOS.IO now represents over 85% of all transactions on public blockchains. Cryptogon EOS LP targets equity investments in early stage companies, across various industries and commercial functions, who have identified that blockchain represents a major value enhancement for their businesses.

SVK Crypto

Galaxy Digital is a NYC-based multi-strategy investment firm focused on digital assets and blockchain technology.

EOS VC Fund

VC firm investing in early-stage venture between Europe and Japan

Tachi.ai Ventures

10X invests across the capital structure, alongside the world's top technology investors. They align Wall Street and Silicon Valley by bringing institutional capital to high growth ventures in private and public markets, helping founders and investors achieve scale and liquidity while retaining upside and control. 10X was founded in 2004 and is based in  New York.

10X Capital

Galaxy Digital operates as a technology-driven financial services and investment management firm that provides institutions and direct clients with a full suite of financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem. Galaxy Digital operates five synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining.

Galaxy Digital

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

Tess Ventures does what it takes to move customers from the earliest stage to Series A and beyond. At the earliest stage, they help customers refine the idea, product, and all aspects of the company’s operations, investor relations, and market positioning. They often invest in you through a seed round and sometimes at a later stage.

Tess Ventures

Red Beard Ventures is a full-stack web3 fund investing across Web 3.0 and crypto, including consumer applications, infrastructure, gaming, the metaverse, and DeFi with a focus on pre-seed through Series B investments in equity and tokens.

Redbeard Ventures

Azarus

Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows gamers and streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways. The core of the Azarus network is a ''smart challenge'' system that creates a new dynamic between and among streamers and gamers. As part of the pilot program, Azarus will allow a select number of Rainbow 6 streamers, via a proprietary Twitch extension, to award tokens to viewers who correctly answer real time questions about their streams.

Azarus provides a complementary tool for streamers to boost interaction with fans with its Smart Challenge system that allows gamers to compete in challenges. The company’s seed round was worth USD 1.8 million, led by Galaxy Interactive. The platform is in beta as of September 2020.

A foundational component to the next generation of digital entertainment.

Esports

Azarus Boosts Player Engagement Through Live Streaming

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

Azarus

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