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Advancit Capital

846 University Ave, Norwood, MA, 02062, United States

Overview

Advancit Capital is an early-stage investment firm focused on media, entertainment, and technology companies. The firm seeks the opportunity to form long-term partnerships with talented, focused, and driven entrepreneurs. With its strategic and industry expertise, Advancit Capital provides value-added resources at the critical growth stages of companies.

Total investments
84
Lead investments
4
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
3

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • Impact Investing
  • Media and Entertainment
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Investment portfolio

  • BetHog

    Participated · Series A · Apr 2026

    Founded in 2024 by the creators of FanDuel and based in Edinburgh, BetHog operates a crypto casino and sportsbook available in 14 languages and accepting deposits in 10 cryptocurrencies. Its product mix includes classic casino games, exclusive titles, and AI-powered live dealers; the company launched its first AI blackjack dealer, Sunny, in October 2025 and reports it as one of the most played games. BetHog has introduced Sentient Studios, a B2B platform to let other operators deploy AI dealers across live casino offerings. The company plans to expand its AI dealer capabilities later in the year to include Baccarat and Roulette. BetHog is regulated, backed by investors from sports, crypto and gaming, and has raised a total of €13 million to date following the Series A.

  • worm.wtf

    Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

    worm.wtf operates a prediction market within the Solana ecosystem, enabling participants to forecast event outcomes and trade corresponding positions. The platform benefits from Solana’s high throughput and low fees to offer efficient market creation and settlement. On 17 December 2025, the company disclosed a $4.5 million pre-seed financing round. Investors in this round include 6MV, Alliance, Solana Ventures, Borderless and Advancit Capital. The successful raise highlights growing investor interest in decentralized prediction markets on Solana. As an early-stage venture, worm.wtf remains in initial phases of product and market development, and no further operating metrics have been publicly shared.

  • Beamable

    Participated · Series A · Feb 2025

    Beamable builds decentralized infrastructure for gaming and provides an open, extensible game server platform. The platform lets developers create online games and virtual worlds in minutes and quickly add player auth, analytics, social, commerce, inventory, content management, meta-game features, GenAI and Web3 capabilities. The company is led by CEO Jon Radoff. Beamable plans to develop and scale its Network, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) intended to redefine how backend infrastructure for games is built and operated. It raised $13.5M in Series A financing to fund development and scaling of the Network. The company is based in Boston, MA. Beamable provides a Software-as-a-Service platform that helps game makers continuously operate, update, monetize and socialize their games. The platform is integrated with the Unity 3D engine, enabling developers to focus on creativity and differentiation. Led by CEO Jon Radoff, the company has signed up over 100 game studios since last year. Over 20 million users have accessed games built on Beamable, resulting in $150M in revenue transacted through the platform. Beamable raised approximately $5M in an equity funding round and intends to use the proceeds to expand operations and its business reach. The company is based in Boston, MA. Disruptor Beam builds franchise-based mobile games, including Game of Thrones Ascent (2013) and Star Trek Timelines. The company says revenue grew more than 300% last year, driven largely by Timelines, and over 15 million people have played its games. It plans to keep developing existing titles and launch new franchise games currently in development. Next up is The Walking Dead: March to War, a multiplayer strategy game scheduled for release sometime in 2017. Leadership also plans to use funding to build out a publishing platform for marketing, customer acquisition and support. The team is monitoring the impact of the new Star Trek Discovery TV show and may incorporate elements from the show into Timelines.

  • Smashing

    Participated · Seed · Jun 2024

    Smashing is an AI- and community-powered content recommendation app that curates the best content across news, blogs, social posts, podcasts and videos. Its iOS app, built over the last year following a seed round, lets users submit any URL, vote content up or down (users get 30 votes per day), and like, save and comment on links. AI features provide summaries, key excerpts and pull quotes and help identify topics and threads tailored to individual users, while community voting works in conjunction with the AI. The company is launching into an invite-only private beta on iOS. Founders include Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, Greg Veen (who teamed up with Chandler in 2022), Mike Mraz and Dan Barrett. Financially, Smashing has $3.4 million in seed funding from a mix of venture firms and angel investors.

  • KIKI

    Participated · Equity · Apr 2024

    Kiki World is a community commerce company that enables companies to co-create products with their user audiences using custom engagement tools and blockchain infrastructure. Since May 2023 its community collaboration has led to product collections such as the Skin Development Kit and an NFC-enabled Pretty Nail Graffiti pen. The company leverages blockchain-powered profiles and collectibles to provide incentives for user engagement and to foster direct connections between brands, creators, and customer communities. Kiki plans to begin releasing a new set of platform tools and applications in April 2024, including discovery engines, community management tools designed to reward fans first, and platform APIs. Those tools will enable creators, brands, and fans to connect, launch community-driven campaigns, and accelerate Kiki’s own product lines. Financially, Kiki raised $7M in funding to expand operations and development efforts.

Team

  • Jason Ostheimer

    Co-Founder and Partner

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  • Shari Redstone

    Co-Founder & Managing Partner

  • Jonathan Miller

    Partner

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