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A16Z GAMES

2865 Sand Hill Road, Suite 101, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States

Overview

A16Z GAMES Speedrun is the speedrun in early-stage accelerator for startups at the intersection of Tech x Games.

Total investments
8
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
0
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Investment portfolio

  • Flora

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2026

    FLORA offers an all-in-one creative environment that connects the top generative AI models across video, image, and text, allowing teams to build reusable systems that accelerate concepting and production without sacrificing creative control. The platform compresses weeks-long creative cycles into days by letting users codify brand guidelines and workflows into scalable libraries. Current customers include creative groups at Pentagram, Lionsgate, MSCHF, Red Antler, AKQA, and Levi’s, spanning industries such as fashion, beauty, marketing, and film/VFX. FLORA reports that brand sprints that once took months now shrink to weeks, and briefs can be transformed into production-ready campaigns in a few days. With the new funding, the company plans to grow its sales and engineering teams and add professional-grade editing, an intelligent workflow assistant, and further codified creative processes. Founded in Brooklyn, New York, FLORA has now raised a total of $52 million. No revenue or user counts were disclosed, but the company positions itself as the creative operating system for the generative era.

  • Leo AI

    Participated · Seed · Sep 2025

    Leo AI, founded in 2013 by Dr. Maor Farid and Moti Moravia, is a Cambridge, MA–based AI company focused on physical product engineering. Its core product turns sketches or short text prompts into full 3D models, enabling engineers to focus on building products. The platform aims to replace hours of manual work with instant, accurate solutions and can cut up to 70% of engineering time and cost. Engineers at companies such as Scania, HP, Siemens and Mobileye have used Leo to generate over 475K 3D concepts. The company recently raised $9.7M in Seed funding and plans to use the proceeds to expand the team, scale into new markets, and enhance product development.

  • Azra Games

    Participated · Series A · Oct 2024

    Azra Games builds mobile and computer video games, combining traditional gameplay with modern live-service elements. The studio’s flagship project is UnGodly, slated for release early next year, for which the team is directing significant development resources. The company positions itself at the intersection of immersive storytelling and monetizable in-game economies. To accelerate production and marketing, Azra Games has just secured fresh capital, bringing in $18.9 million. Management intends to deploy these funds toward final development milestones, user-acquisition campaigns, and community-building initiatives leading up to launch. While detailed operating metrics such as revenue or user count were not disclosed, the sizable raise underscores investor confidence in the studio’s pipeline and market potential.

  • Mudstack

    Participated · Equity · Aug 2024

    Mudstack is a Seattle-based provider of file versioning and asset management tools for the game industry. Led by CEO James Gwertzman, the company is building an asset management and collaboration platform for artists, developers, and producers that shortens development times by improving communication and collaboration. The platform emphasizes preventing work loss to encourage risk-taking and creativity and aims to open the development process to a global community. Mudstack recently signed its first two large enterprise customers, Metacore and Paradox Studios. The company raised $4M in financing and plans to use the funds to further develop its platform, grow its team, and expand its customer base.

  • Kaedim

    Led · Series A · Mar 2024

    Kaedim provides AI solutions to speed the production of digital 3D assets, including generation of 3D models from a single image. Its platform automates steps such as UV unwrapping, texturing and levels of detail to produce ready-to-use assets for games and other 3D workflows. The company serves customers across video games, commerce, architecture, product design and animation. Kaedim has surpassed seven figures in annual revenue and counts 250+ large-scale customers including Voodoo, Voldex, Zerospace and Upland; its user base is growing by about 20,000 new creators per month. Led by founder and CEO Konstantina Psoma, the company plans to use new funding to invest in innovation, add new tools and features, grow its team and expand into new markets.

Team

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