Participated · Seed · Feb 2023

Sesame Labs builds a marketing stack for web3 applications, including a campaign management platform, an advertising network and a customer relationship management tool. The platform enables targeted campaigns that leverage competitor data, surface cross-channel customer insights and create in-game engagement rewards. It is currently in beta with about a dozen Polygon web3 games, including Decentral Games, League of Kingdoms and Ethermon. Co‑founders Vinay Jain and Aman Jain, who previously worked at companies such as WhatsApp, Meta and Twitter, lead product and company strategy. The co‑founders say they plan to define what ads on web3 look like and build the product that powers those experiences. Sesame Labs raised seed funding to support team growth and product development, with a strong emphasis on research and development.

Participated · Seed · Nov 2022

Midnight is a gaming company that emerged from stealth to build a studio and platform focused on creating never-ending stories across free-to-play and premium titles. It is developing a novel web3-based 'forging' system intended to create true interoperability and a robust player-driven economy while ensuring games are enjoyable without the NFT layer. The company was founded in late 2021 and is based in Los Angeles. Midnight now has more than 60 people working on four titles — including Legion (a 4X MMO), Next Protectors (a 2D pixel brawler), and At Your Service (a couch co-op) — and is scaling rapidly. The team is led by industry veterans including CEO Steve Wade and CTO Steven Spagnolo, with Chris Heatherly, Geoffrey Hunt and Bill Roper in senior creative and product roles. The company plans to build a vibrant slate of first- and third-party games across platforms and genres, and will release more information on its titles and platform in coming months.

Participated · Seed · Jan 2022

CryptoSlam aggregates non-fungible token (NFT) data from a growing list of blockchains including Ethereum, Ronin, Solana, Flow, Polygon, WAX and others to provide market transparency and deep analytics. Launched in 2018 and led by founder and CEO Randy Wasinger, the platform is used by thousands of NFT enthusiasts, speculators and market watchers each day and is frequently cited by major media outlets. The company offers analytics on collections and market trends and plans to expand product offerings, including an enterprise NFT data API to allow developers to build on the platform. CryptoSlam intends to use its new funding to support hiring, broaden development for new and existing blockchains, and launch several new CryptoSlam-branded products. The team is over 20 people and has recently made key executive hires with support from an executive recruitment firm. CryptoSlam is a provider of an aggregator of NFT collectible data from the Ethereum, WAX, and FLOW blockchains. The platform tracks a range of NFTs including NBA Top Shot moments, CryptoPunks, Bitcoin Origins, Sorare and more. It currently tracks over fifty different NFT projects from three different blockchains. The site is led by founder and CEO Randy Wasinger. CryptoSlam is based in Overland Park, Kan. The company received an initial funding round of undisclosed amount.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2021

Shrapnel is a GameFi project mentioned in a GameFi sector roundup. The company secured $19.5 million in a funding round from Gala Games and other investors. The announcement appeared amid a reported 94% rebound in gaming funding and a broadly steady GameFi market cap. The article does not disclose the financing instrument or any operating metrics for Shrapnel. The raise was reported alongside other sector developments such as Star Atlas's ZINK chain, the Holoism launch, and Immutable opening Immutable Play.