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Emfarsis

Manila, NCR, Philippines

Overview

Emfarsis is an advisory and investment firm focused on the strategic communication of web3 innovation for the open Metaverse. Co-founded in 2019 by Leah Callon-Butler and Nathan Smale, the company supports early-stage founders in finding their audience and their voice as they launch. Seeking to empower emerging markets, Emfarsis works with pioneering projects that are building the web3 ecosystem, including Yield Guild Games (YGG), BreederDAO, XLD Finance, Finblox, MetaverseGo, Unlockd, My Pet Hooligan and Crypto Unicorns.

Total investments
2
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Blockchain
  • Cryptocurrency
  • FinTech
  • Gaming
  • Metaverse
  • Web3
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Investment portfolio

  • SuperGaming

    Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

    SuperGaming is an Indian game development studio best known for titles such as Indus Battle Royale and Silly Royale, and for producing award-winning mobile experiences. The company develops proprietary technology including the Indus Engine and SuperPlatform, a cloud-based SaaS built in partnership with Google Cloud to power hyperscale, real-time multiplayer games for lower-end devices in emerging markets. SuperGaming has pursued Web3 integration through projects like Tower Conquest: Metaverse Edition on Polygon and a Layer-3 Superchain partnership with B3 GameChain on Base to enable asset continuity and interoperable progression. The new capital will be used to expand Indus internationally (starting with Latin America in partnership with LOUD.GG), scale game development capabilities, hire top-tier talent, create new original IP, and deepen publisher partnerships. Financially, the company closed a $15M Series B following a $5.5M Series A in October 2021, with returning backers reaffirming support. SuperGaming highlights strong market validation—Indus won Google Play's "Best Made in India" award for 2024—and positions SuperPlatform as the primary focus for global expansion and developer-facing monetization and live-ops tools. SuperGaming is a Pune-based game developer that builds and publishes mobile and multiplayer titles. It has developed its own game engine for running hyper-scale, real-time multiplayer games and holds the official PAC-MAN mobile game. Its catalogue includes MaskGun (which crossed 50 million installs), Devil Amongst Us (10 million installs within four months), and Tower Conquest. The company also offers Bored, a suite of games for remote teams used in over 2,500 Slack workspaces across the US, UK, Europe and India. SuperGaming raised $5.5M in a Series A and plans to use the proceeds to expand talent by 60%, build a publishing division and market existing titles. It intends to launch a battle royale, Indus, in early 2022. SuperGaming is building a social platform that serves as a party hub for casual gamers, offering a genre of casual, social and party games. The product targets a broader audience than hard-core titles, aiming for games played by a much larger and diverse audience. The company plans to use the newly raised capital to launch its social platform and to enter international markets within the next year. SuperGaming raised $1.3 million in a seed round to fund these efforts. Founders are Roby John (co-founder and chief executive), Navneet Waraich (director of technology), and Sanket Nadhani; John previously co-founded and led Pune-based June Gaming. The article cites a KPMG and Google study projecting India’s online gaming market to grow to $1 billion by 2021 from $290 million in 2017, highlighting the opportunity SuperGaming targets.

  • BreederDAO

    Participated · Series A · Jan 2022

    BreederDAO builds digital assets at scale for play-to-earn blockchain games and virtual worlds, producing NFTs for titles including Axie Infinity, Crabada, and Pegaxy. The 23-person, Philippines-based team sells NFTs at preset prices to customers such as Yield Guild Games, Ready Player DAO, and Earn Guild; YGG also owns a stake in the company. BreederDAO aims to work with 5,000 play-to-earn groups by 2025 and positions itself as a specialist in the asset-production part of the game supply chain. Demand context cited by investors notes Axie Infinity’s nearly 3 million daily active users and that guilds attracted $532 million in funding last year, indicating room for growth. Financially, BreederDAO closed a $10 million Series A via a token sale co-led by a16z and Delphi Digital, with participation from Hashed, com2us, Morningstar Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Sfermion, The LAO, Emfarsis and others. Investors funded the company ahead of a public token launch; syndicate participants will receive tokens proportional to their investment when the offering occurs.

Team

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