Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

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

Griffin Gaming Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Cleo Capital is a venture capital company. The company focuses on making investments in early-stage and expanding start-up businesses.

Cleo Capital

Animal Capital is a venture firm driving growth by leveraging proprietary marketing channels and increasing consumer awareness. The firm will focus on consumer and financial technology, health and wellness, and media.

Animal Capital

At Founders, Inc. we're quietly building the next gen. of emerging tech companies. We start companies from scratch through our venture Studio: - thirdweb ($30M raised)  - buildspace ($10M raised)  - Zeet ($4M raised)  - Scenario ($6M raised)  And we bet on early-stage builders - sometimes even before they're ready to start a company (past investments include Lexica, Levels.fyi, and more). Are you a prolific builder with an affinity for emerging tech? We'll be your first check.

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OMG is led by veteran developers behind Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and Guild Wars. Its debut title Spellcraft is an online competitive strategy fantasy game targeted at PC gamers, with compatibility for additional platforms also in the pipeline. The title has been in the hands of around 100 beta users since October 2020. OMG is looking to carve out a new competitive gaming genre. This approach is unique because many existing esports-centric developers in the space are chasing the next big multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), first-person shooter (FPS), or real-time strategy (RTS) hit, and understandably so—they feature higher up on the most-watched genres in esports.

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OMG is led by veteran developers behind Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, and Guild Wars. Its debut title Spellcraft is an online competitive strategy fantasy game targeted at PC gamers, with compatibility for additional platforms also in the pipeline. The title has been in the hands of around 100 beta users since October 2020. OMG is looking to carve out a new competitive gaming genre. This approach is unique because many existing esports-centric developers in the space are chasing the next big multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), first-person shooter (FPS), or real-time strategy (RTS) hit, and understandably so—they feature higher up on the most-watched genres in esports.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9809">In April 2022 </a>, OMG raised USD 22 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Griffin Gaming Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Animal Capital, Cleo Capital, and a group of individual investors. The fresh funds were allocated to the development of its first title Spellcraft.

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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