Participated · Equity · Aug 2025

Stan operates a social platform designed for gaming creators, publishers and their communities, offering tools that blend social interaction with monetisation features for streamers and influencers. The company’s app has been downloaded more than 30 million times, with notable penetration in India’s tier-II and tier-III cities. Management plans to invest heavily in AI-driven personalisation, expanded creator monetisation toolsets and deeper publisher integrations to strengthen user engagement and revenue opportunities. Future strategy also includes scaling the platform into other mobile-first international markets. The product vision emphasises building dynamic ecosystems where gamers, creators and developers can co-create shared worlds. Financially, Stan has attracted $10.5 million in Series A funding to date, signalling strong investor confidence in its growth trajectory.

Led · Equity · Jul 2024

Soccerverse is a free-to-play football management game that uses blockchain technology to let players build dream teams and exert influence in the game ecosystem. The company emphasizes an immersive, community-driven experience and a social layer intended to change how players engage with management gameplay. Leadership says the new funding will optimize launch, accelerate growth, and allow the team to deliver higher quality, feature-rich experiences to a global audience. Soccerverse highlights its blockchain features as a differentiator within the genre. Financially, the company has raised a total of $4 million following a strategic investment of £2.5 million ($3.1 million) led by Square Enix with continued support from Hiro Capital. Quotes from Square Enix and Hiro Capital in the announcement portray the round as both validation and ongoing partnership.

Participated · Equity · Jun 2024

Mantra develops manga-focused AI translation technology and offers Mantra Engine, a cloud translation tool for manga and vertical-scroll comics that completes all manga-translation work in the browser. The company says Mantra Engine uses integrated image-recognition and LLM-based translation to preserve character voice and contextual consistency, cutting traditional translation workflows to less than half the time. Mantra reports monthly usage of about 100,000 pages (roughly 500 tankōbon volumes) by domestic and international publishers, translation houses, and distributors. The team has published in top AI venues (AAAI) and received awards such as the AAMT Nagao Prize, reflecting academic validation of its approach. Mantra also operates the Langaku English extensive-reading app and plans to commercialize its technology into novels, games, and video content. The company intends to use new funding to accelerate R&D and improve translation accuracy toward a five-year goal of consumer-grade reading quality, while advancing global expansion.

Participated · Seed · Mar 2024

Elixir Games is a Barcelona, Spain–based provider of a Web3 gaming platform led by CEO Carlos Roldan. The company integrates blockchain technology to give players true ownership of in-game assets and to foster a player-driven economy. It offers an all-in-one suite including a wallet system, simplified onboarding, on-ramp payments, a games marketplace, enterprise infrastructure solutions, and a launchpad. The platform is gamified with features such as a Season Pass, quests, giveaways, tournaments, and leaderboards. Elixir has expanded its capabilities through acquisitions of RoboKiden and LitLab Games studio and through strategic partnerships. Recently it received a strategic investment from Wemix; the amount of the deal was not disclosed. Elixir Games is a Barcelona-based web3 gaming distribution platform that provides a white-label solution for enterprises. Led by CEO Carlos Roldan, the company focuses on web3 gaming infrastructure and is publishing games by acquiring indie studios. It closed a $14m Seed funding round to support development of a comprehensive global gaming ecosystem slated to launch later this year. The company plans to launch the $ELIX token to power its products and to roll out a Launchpad & Incubation Program in 2024. Backers included Square Enix, the Solana Foundation and Shima Capital alongside other private investors. Participants in the funding were particularly interested in supporting the Launchpad & Incubation Program to streamline game launches for web3 developers.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2023

Atlas is a Vienna, Austria–based company building a 3D generative AI platform for creating custom, IP-specific assets and virtual worlds for games, virtual ecosystems and XR. Its suite of AI products helps enterprise clients and creators generate assets and experiences much faster than traditional pipelines. The company plans to use new funding to enhance R&D and deepen collaborations with game developers and brands to further its gaming experiences. Ben James is the CEO & Founder and leads the company’s product and partnership efforts. Atlas previously received grants in 2020 supporting AI work aligned with the European Union’s High-Level Expert Group on Trustworthy AI. The current funding will be released across three years and is conditioned on milestone achievement. Atlas offers a suite of AI products that help enterprise and next-gen creators generate custom, IP-specific 3D assets for video games, virtual ecosystems and XR experiences. The company partners with game developers and brands, including Square Enix, Consortium9 and Shrapnel, to scale asset development and lower production times. Led by CEO Ben James, Atlas is headquartered in Vienna, Austria and is deployed worldwide. The new capital will be used to accelerate expansion of Atlas’ developer solutions and to build out a self-service 3D AI creator platform. Atlas is supported by strategic advisors and angel investors Timmu Tõke, Abel Mathew and Geoff Renaud.