Participated · Equity · Jan 2024

Founded in 2021 in Singapore, SkyArk Chronicles is a game studio that develops titles powered by web3 technologies and NFTs. The studio has released a first title, House of Heroes, and is developing two additional games: Legends Arise and RE:Skyarkverse. SkyArk joined Binance Labs' incubation programme in November 2021. In January 2024 the company announced it had completed a $15 million funding round that it said was led by Binance Labs. The announced round included participation from VividThree, GuildFi, Jambo, BreederDAO and angel investors including Bryan Pellegrino. Binance later denied participating in that latest funding round (update dated January 29, 2024).

Participated · Series A · Jul 2022

XSET is a gaming organization and lifestyle brand that fields some of the world’s top competitive esports teams across titles including Valorant, Rocket League, Rainbow Six, Fortnite, Warzone, Apex Legends and eNASCAR. Founded in 2020 and based in Boston, MA, the company partners with brands such as Ghost Lifestyle, SCUF Gaming, Roots Canada, HyperX, Quality Control Music, Respawn, Fanshark and Wahlburgers. Since launch it has attracted talent from music, sports and entertainment including Swae Lee, Ozuna, Ezekiel Elliott, Nigel Sylvester, Tee Grizzley and Minna Stess. XSET raised $15M in a Series A to support growth. The company intends to use the proceeds to hire executive talent, expand marketing, and create content. It is opening a west coast office, gaming and content studio in Compton, CA and works with socially positive causes including Big Brother Big Sister of America. XSET is a gaming and lifestyle organization founded in 2020 that fields competitive esports teams and builds culture-driven merchandise and content. The company emphasizes diversity and equity, aiming to elevate representation of communities of color, women, and other underrepresented gamers. XSET partners with consumer brands such as Ghost Lifestyle, HyperX, SCUF Gaming, Roots Canada and Wahlburgers, and attracts talent across music, sports, and gaming. Its roster and collaborators include Grammy-nominated artists and pro athletes, and it fields top competitive squads including an all-female CS:GO team. XSET pursues content and brand collaborations alongside competitive play and merchandise as core offerings. The company announced a strategic partnership with QC Media Holdings/Quality Control that includes an investment and planned joint initiatives across content, music, talent recruitment, events, merchandise and licensing.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2022

Tatsumeeko is an "MMORPG-lite" role‑playing game built by the team behind Tatsu.GG and designed to run through Discord as well as iOS, Android and the web. The game is set in a world called Ielia where players fight monsters, build communities, progress characters, complete quests and earn in‑game token rewards. It integrates NFTs and crypto behind the scenes to give players optional control over assets; players can start without creating a wallet or buying NFTs. An introductory version reached about 60,000 monthly active users and 4.5 million in traded items, and Tatsu.GG (the underlying ecosystem) claims 60 million users and 1.4 million Discord communities. Product plans include a broader launch with main and side story quests, co‑op raids, dimensional invasions, PvE combat with token rewards, an initial sale of Aethereal Parcels in July, and expansion to other social platforms and communities. The company has raised seed funding to continue development and to support integrations for NFT projects and brands to bring their communities into the game.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2022

Chillchat is a casual social metaverse powered by a Pixel Editor, World Builder and the Solana blockchain that lets players create and mint Worlds, Characters, Items and Pets. The platform emphasizes user-generated content and a "Create2Earn" model that enables creators to monetize assets as NFTs. Chillchat plans to launch a web platform later in the year to allow players to create new Characters, Worlds and experiences, followed by an IDO on Raydium and an IEO on a to-be-confirmed exchange. Additional roadmap features include real-time NFT trading in‑metaverse, multiplayer adventures with Pets, custom Tilesets, NFT stores/museums, and tools to turn Worlds into playable games. The company has generated secondary-market activity for its Origins NFTs (1,000 of 1,500 minted in a public sale), with a current floor price at 22 SOL (~US$880), a top secondary sale at 120 SOL (~US$4,800) and total Origins sales volume of 42,856 SOL (~US$1.7M). Chillchat continues weekly Origins auctions and ongoing feature development to scale creator onboarding and tokenomics.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2022

Aura Network is an ecosystem and NFT-centric layer-1 focused on accelerating global NFT adoption, building an "Internet of NFTs" and bringing NFT and Web3 to the masses. The project emphasizes support for NFTs, gaming, and sustainable DeFi and is positioned as a high-performance, developer- and user-facing chain. Aura is preparing for a Mainnet launch in Q1 2023 and its development team is building several new products with a 2023 roadmap to be announced. The company says the recently raised funds will be used for ecosystem expansion and to increase the number of global Web3 projects and products built within its ecosystem. Aura has formed strategic advisory relationships (including Republic Crypto) and says investor partners will advise on operations, product and business development, and marketing. The company is operating out of Hanoi, Vietnam. Aura Network is an NFT-dedicated layer-1 blockchain on the Cosmos ecosystem that aims to accelerate global NFT adoption by building interoperable infrastructure. It provides an open system designed to maximize NFT interoperability and integrate NFTs into the metaverse. The project is positioned as a solution to mass-adoption challenges by simplifying NFT access for non-crypto natives and expanding use cases for brands and general audiences. Aura intends to release its Testnet at the end of Q2 2022 and its Mainnet in Q3 2022. The founding team includes Tran Hoang Giang, FPT Software’s COO Tran Dang Hoa, and former Masan Group CIO Steve Nguyen. The company raised a USD 2.5M seed round to fund development, interoperability work, and community building.