• Loot Labs

  Participated · Seed · Oct 2024

  Loot Labs operates BOXED.GG, a gamified collectibles experience for fans of Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Counter-Strike 2, and more. BOXED.GG lets users digitally unbox items; physical collectibles can be shipped to customers while virtual items such as Counter-Strike 2 skins are transferred directly to in-game inventories. The platform has thousands of registered users who have collectively opened more than 15M boxes to date. Loot Labs plans to expand BOXED.GG into the digital video game collectibles market, beginning with a Counter-Strike 2 skins beta launching on October 28. The company raised $6M in Seed funding to support this expansion. Loot Labs is led by CEO Milan Harris and has an international team across the UK, Netherlands, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, with leadership from Microsoft, NASA, Boeing, Lucas Arts, Twitch, and 2K.

• Skyfire Systems

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2024

  Skyfire Systems has built an open payment protocol that gives AI agents secure wallet access, verifiable identity, and instant settlement rails so they can purchase products and services without human intervention. The platform already processes payments between AI agents and enterprises such as Emergence AI, Pricing Culture, Venice AI, Micro1, OpenRouter and Net Nut. To keep on-chain costs low, Skyfire is integrated with Base, Coinbase’s Layer-2 blockchain, where average transaction fees run below one cent. The company also supports the Coinbase Wallet, letting agents hold value and transact with other agents, companies or individuals. In just weeks since launch, the network has begun commercial payment flows for LLM aggregators and large financial-services firms. Skyfire plans to use its new capital to expand operations and accelerate product development. Following the latest raise, the San Francisco-based company’s total funding stands at $9.5 million.

• Morph

  Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

  Morph is a permissionless EVM Layer 2 built for value-driven dApps on Ethereum. It combines optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technologies and plans to launch with a decentralized sequencer. The stack targets use cases in finance, gaming, social media, and entertainment. Led by CEO Cecilia Hsueh and COO Azeem Khan, Morph emphasizes decentralization, censorship resistance, and security. The company raised $19M in Seed funding plus an additional $1M angel round and will use the proceeds for talent acquisition, developer incentives, marketing, and technical infrastructure improvements. Morph is based in New York City.

• Overplay

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

  Overplay is a frictionless platform for user-generated games that lets anyone quickly and easily make games using personal videos. Its multi-patented app includes AI tools that help creators and brands transform videos into interactive games. The product emphasizes simplicity and rapid game creation for creators and brands. After appearing on Shark Tank, entrepreneur Mark Cuban invested and will join as a brand ambassador and strategic advisor. Overplay raised over $400,000 from 411 investors via a Wefunder crowdfunding campaign and struck a negotiated $500,000 for 4% equity deal with Cuban; the company plans to raise a $5 million seed round. The company said it will leverage Cuban’s content creation and promotion to accelerate growth and user acquisition. Overplay provides a patented, mobile-first game creation platform that enables creators, brands, and social users to transform short videos into casual games without coding. The product uses AI to convert video content into playable experiences in minutes and holds a patent described as "playing a game into existence." The company intends to use its new capital to scale distribution and bring game-creation tools to millions of creators, social media users, gamers, and brands. Overplay reports more than 1 million games played, 150,000+ alpha app downloads, and a waitlist of over 7,000 creators for its beta game maker. The team is led by CEO and co-founder Dan Projansky and COO and co-founder Caroline Strzalka, with backgrounds in game design and media partnerships. Financially, Overplay completed a seed fundraising round in December 2023 to support product growth and go-to-market efforts.

• AnotherBall

  Participated · Seed · Nov 2023

  AnotherBall is led by CEO Shunsuke Oyu and centers on its VTuber project IZUMO, which has developed technological initiatives such as “Ailis” and “SAI by IZUMO.” Drawing on learnings from those projects, the company is building a platform to help creators worldwide connect with fans and monetize content. The platform’s beta is scheduled for release in Q1 2024, with a full public launch planned later in the year. AnotherBall intends to use the new funding to expand its team and accelerate development efforts. The company is based in Singapore and has raised a total of $14.8M to date. AnotherBall is a Singapore-based digital entertainment company developing a VTuber project called IZUMO. IZUMO aims to build a sustainable platform where people can live as they want in the Web3 space. The company raised $2.2M in Angel funding. The round was led by Hiroaki Kitano and included investors Jaynti Kanani, Justin Waldron, Keisuke Honda, Kevin Aluwi, Kevin Lin, Rehito Hatoyama, Richard Ma, Shintaro Yamada, Sota Watanabe, Yusuke Obinata, Suji Yan and Zeneca. AnotherBall intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach.

No current team members are available.