Participated · Series A · Apr 2026

GGWP offers an AI-based moderation and community management platform serving global game publishers across PC, console, and mobile platforms. Its platform supports more than 20 languages and includes in-client game moderation through a partnership with Unity. GGWP entered the Japanese market last year and counts major Asian gaming and technology companies among its strategic investors and partners. The company positions itself as enterprise-grade infrastructure for live service community management, focusing on user protection, retention, and brand safety. Following its $15 million Series A, GGWP is prioritizing expansion in Korea and the Asia-Pacific region and upgrading compliance, stability, and analytics capabilities to support global-scale publishers.

Participated · Series A · Aug 2022

Inworld AI builds a Character Engine that powers AI-driven non-player characters (NPCs) for games, entertainment, and interactive experiences. The platform orchestrates multiple machine learning models to produce multimodal character expression—dialogue, memory, goals, emotional intelligence—and can link character 'brains' to animation and rigging in 3D engines. Inworld’s technology is integrated with major game engines and marketplaces, including Unity's AI Marketplace as a Unity Verified Solution and work with Unreal Engine MetaHumans; the company also received an Epic MegaGrant. Customers and partners include Team Miaozi (NetEase Games), Niantic 8th Wall, ILM Immersive, LG UPlus, Alpine Electronics, and community-created mods for Skyrim, Stardew Valley, and Grand Theft Auto V. The company plans to use new funding to accelerate research and development, hire top talent, invest in infrastructure, and launch an open-source version of its Character Engine. Inworld says its approach goes beyond standard LLM chatbots to create lifelike NPC behaviors that can autonomously pursue goals and interact within game worlds. Founded in 2021, Inworld has raised over $100 million to date and its recent financing values the company at more than $500 million. Inworld AI offers a no-code creative suite for building AI characters and interactive digital humans. The company layers advanced generative AI on top of MetaHumans to create personalities, thoughts, memories, and behaviors designed to mimic social human interaction. Its technology powers conversations, emotions, expressions, and gestures, and characters can be designed in minutes and deployed into gaming, entertainment, education, metaverse, or brand experiences. Inworld received an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games to combine its AI solutions with Epic’s MetaHuman technology and enable integration into Unreal Engine experiences. CEO Ilya Gelfenbeyn said the company is honored to receive the MegaGrant and is excited to help developers add interactive digital humans. The article does not disclose revenue, users, or other financial metrics. Inworld AI builds AI-powered virtual characters primarily for games and broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. The company offers a platform and integrations with engines like Unreal Engine and Unity to create NPCs and digital representatives with memories, personalities and human-like behaviors. Customers describe characters in natural language and tailor goals, speech patterns, knowledge and voice; characters undergo a training process and query Inworld's cloud-hosted system for dialogue. Inworld launched in 2021, released its first product after a March seed round and is currently in limited beta while exploring pricing and cost-reduction strategies. The company has 42 employees, added chief creative officer John Gaeta, and was selected for the 2022 Disney Accelerator. Proceeds from fundraising are earmarked for product development, research, hiring and customer acquisition as it seeks partners to deploy AI characters beyond gaming. Inworld AI offers a Studio product and beta tools that let developers create richly detailed, conversational NPCs using natural-language core descriptions and configurable character fields with no code. The system runs online and queries large language models to produce unscripted dialogue, while leaving visuals to external art pipelines and integrating with game engines like Unreal and Unity. Characters can be given motivations, personality traits, world knowledge, rote responses, blacklists, and standard safety filters to bias behavior and constrain outputs. In demos the generated characters produced natural-feeling, game-relevant responses, though the company and reviewer noted the demonstrations were limited and staged. Inworld plans to publish a short game to showcase its character generators and is running a private beta with early access applications. The company recently raised $10 million (and counting) from a group of angel investors including Riot Games, The Sandbox, Roblox, Disney, Animoca Brands, Twitch and Oculus. Inworld AI provides a developer platform for creating AI-powered virtual human agents that populate metaverses, VR/AR experiences, games, and other virtual worlds. Its AI enables virtual agents to exhibit unique behaviors and awareness of their context and environment, and agents are embeddable and deployable across a range of immersive realities. The platform is positioned to let brands create virtual representatives for ecommerce, operations, and customer support, and to help enterprises run immersive training and video-game makers build realistic NPCs. The company emphasizes in-world roles such as advising, support, entertainment, and other intended functions. Inworld AI is co-founded by CEO Ilya Gelfenbeyn and CTO Michael Ermolenko and is based in Mountain View, Calif. The company raised a $7M seed round, which represents its current disclosed financing event.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2022

Pavilion Data Systems is a San Jose, Calif.-based provider of a data analytics acceleration platform and a pioneer of NVMe-oF. Its Pavilion HyperParallel Data Platform, powered by Pavilion HyperOS, targets GPU-based computing and delivers high performance, density, ultra-low latency, scalability and flexibility. The platform complements AI/ML, HPC, analytics, edge and other data-driven workloads and serves enterprises seeking faster, scalable data I/O. Pavilion reported expanded deployments within federal agencies and increased analytics penetration at multiple Fortune 500 customers, including a top-20 bank, a top credit agency, and a large hedge fund. The company says it doubled new customers and opened new sales offices in Atlanta, Boston, and London while expanding into life sciences, financial, and media and entertainment verticals. Pavilion intends to use new funding to continue expanding operations and broaden its business reach. Pavilion Data Systems develops an ultra-fast, rack-scale NVMe-over-Fabrics storage platform and an OPENCHOICE Storage business model that lets customers reuse standard NVMe SSDs or buy drives directly from makers. Its platform targets massively-parallel modern applications and is used in AI, machine learning, and deep learning workloads across IBM Spectrum Scale, MySQL, NoSQL, and Pivotal Greenplum, and supports Kubernetes, VMware and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. The company reports repeat sales and said it delivered a large number of systems in 2019, with many customers purchasing additional arrays as they scale out. Pavilion has received industry recognition (Flash Memory Summit Best of Show – Most Innovative Startup 2019), been named an IDC NVMe over TCP Innovator, and holds 16 patents to date. The company is active in standards and research groups including NVMexpress, SNIA, STAC Research, and TACC's STAR Program. Pavilion is based in San Jose, Calif., and plans to use new funding to accelerate product delivery, expand into new markets (including Asia), and grow its team to meet customer demand.

Participated · Series C · Jun 2014

mCube designs and sells small MEMS motion sensors for consumer, mobile and wearable devices. Its product line includes accelerometers, magnetic sensors and the iGyro™, a software-based gyroscope optimized for Android smartphones and tablets. The company positions its sensors to be embedded in anything that moves and promotes an “Internet of Moving Things (IoMT)” to measure and analyze movement and context. Ben Lee serves as president and CEO. mCube intends to use new funding to further accelerate growth and expand its line of motion sensors.

Participated · Equity · Jan 2013

Chartboost provides an SDK that developers use to promote other apps for cross-promotion and to monetize excess inventory through an opt-in ad exchange that offers revenue sharing. Developers can buy promotion on a cost-per-click or cost-per-install basis and access analytics through the platform. The company reports powering over 300 million monthly active devices, 6 billion game sessions per month, and appearing in more than 12,000 games (up from 4,000 developers and 2 billion sessions in June 2012). Chartboost was founded in 2011 by former Tapulous employees Maria Alegre (CEO) and Sean Fannan (CTO). The company said it was already profitable at the time of its $2 million Series A in October 2011. With the new funding, Chartboost plans to further product development in in-app monetization and analytics, grow headcount, hire engineers with game-development backgrounds, and expand into a larger SOMA office. Chartboost operates a free ad-serving technology platform and a direct-deal advertising marketplace for game publishers. Its marketplace enables publishers to monetize by directly promoting other publishers’ apps. The company counts makers of apps such as Pocket Gems, Tinyco, Gameview and The Playforge on its marketplace. Chartboost plans to use the funding to scale product development and to reach and serve more publishers globally. It is hiring engineers to support those efforts. The company was founded by CEO Maria Alegre and Sean Fannan.