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This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the Video Games space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sebastien Borget
Co-Founder and COO of Pixowl
Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.
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About Pixowl, The Sandbox: Pixowl is working to build a big entertainment family brand on mobile.
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Arthur Madrid
CEO and co-Founder of Pixowl
Arthur Madrid is the 30 years-old founder and CEO of Wixi.com. Wixi is a web-based social media network where users interact by privately sharing media content — including photos, audio and video. His web career began in 2000 as founder of 1-Click Media 1-click.com (acquired by Ipercast in 2007) , a peer-to-peer video delivery software for television networks. Arthur expanded the product’s reach to serve many top European Video On-Demand Web sites. The 1-Click plug-in is used by more than one million people globally to speed downloads and significantly decrease bandwidth cost. Arthur can be found online at http://twitter.com/arthurmadrid and http://facebook.com/arthurmadrid. He currently lives in Buenos Aires where he runs the main Wixi office.
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About Pixowl, The Sandbox: Pixowl is working to build a big entertainment family brand on mobile.
Jeffrey Zirlin
Co-Founder and Growth Lead of Sky Mavis
Jeffrey Zirlin is the Co-Founder and Growth Lead at Sky Mavis.
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About Axie Infinity, ResumeGem, Sky Mavis: Sky Mavis is a video game developer that brings the benefits of blockchain through fun and practical applications.
Chad Hurley
Co-Founder and Chairman of GreenPark Sports
Chad Hurley is the Co-Founder & Former CEO of YouTube. In October 2006 he, along with the other founders, sold the company for $1.65 billion to Google. Prior to YouTube he worked in eBay’s PayPal division, where he helped design the original PayPal logo.
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About GreenPark Sports: GreenPark Sports is a social sports gaming developer designed to create a virtual sports environment for sports and eSports fans.
Ken Martin
CEO & Co-Founder of GreenPark Sports
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About GreenPark Sports: GreenPark Sports is a social sports gaming developer designed to create a virtual sports environment for sports and eSports fans.
Richard Bernardino
Founder & CEO, Software Architect of Orchidware Studios
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About Orchidware Studios, Project Blue Butterfly, Project Shrub, Project Umami: Fun, exciting, fascinating video games for players of all ages to enjoy.
Ali Moiz
Founder of VULCUN
Founder at Stonks.
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About Stonks, VULCUN: The largest prize pools in Fantasy eSports
Walter Driver
Co-Founder, Chairman & Co-CEO of Scopely
Walter Driver is the co-founder, Chairman and co-Chief Executive Officer of Scopely, one of the fastest-growing mobile-first video game companies. Scopely creates and publishes a highly-diverse portfolio of top-grossing, immersive game experiences, including: the award-winning ”MARVEL Strike Force,” “Scrabble® GO,” “Star Trek™ Fleet Command” and”Yahtzee® With Buddies,” among others, which are played by hundreds of millions of players worldwide. Fueled by a world-class team, Scopely leverages its proprietary technology platform Playgami to bring directed-by-consumer, interactive experiences to audiences around the globe. Under Walter’s leadership, the company has achieved billions of dollars in lifetime revenue and attracted more than $1 billion in financing from leading venture capital firms, tech luminaries and cultural icons.
Walter has been recognized as one of the “100 Most Influential Young Executives” by The Business Journal, “Visionary of the Year” by C-Suite Quarterly, “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young, a “Young Global Shaper” by the World Economic Forum, one of the “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs and a “Dealmaker of the Year” by Variety. Under Walter’s leadership, Scopely has also received many recognitions, including: “Best-led Company” in 2021 by Inc. magazine, “Private Company of the Year” in 2021 by Los Angeles Business Journal, a four time “Best Places to Work” winner by Built In LA, and a two time “World’s Most Innovative Companies” winner by Fast Company. Scopely has also been recognized on top charts such as Deloitte’s “Technology Fast 500,” being named the second fastest-growing technology company in North America and in the Top 10 mobile app charts for consumer spend.
Walter is an investor and advisor to many private technology companies as well as a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Technology & Innovation Council. Prior to Scopely, Walter founded and served as CEO of O Negative Media where he developed online social games. Before O Negative, he co-founded Ignition Interactive, one of the first developers of third-party applications for Facebook.
Walter holds a B.A. in English Literature from Brown University.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Ankur Bulsara
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Scopely
Ankur Bulsara co-founded Scopely, Inc. in 2011 and serves as its Chief Technical Officer. Ankur Bulsara oversees all aspects of technology and engineering at Scopely. He has experience in building large-scale and robust systems used by millions of people across multiple platforms. Ankur Bulsara has over 10 years of experience in technology, development, and architecture. He was the Founder of Brainwave Software Inc. While consulting, he held several different positions with his clients, including Architect of Revenue and Inventory Optimization at uSamp, Architect/Lead Developer at Internships LLC, and Architect at Freedom Speaks. Since 2007, he was the Lead Software Developer on Myspace’s Developer Platform, where he was responsible for the developer website and the portal dashboard for developers to create and managed Myspace apps. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Cornell University.
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About Scopely: Scopely is a global leader in interactive entertainment and mobile-first video games.
Dennis Zdonov
Co-Founder of Faraway
Dennis Zdonov is the Co-Founder at Faraway and Halo Kitchens. He earned a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Faraway: Faraway makes hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies.
Alex Paley
Co-Founder of Faraway
Alex Paley is a Co-Founder at Faraway and Halo Kitchens. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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About Faraway: Faraway makes hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies.
Anthony Borquez
Founder & CEO of Grab Games
Anthony is experienced in building and scaling creative tech businesses. His first company he co-founded, Spacient Technologies, was an early mobile GPS software platform that was acquired by Trimble Navigation. Anthony’s prior game company, Blue Label Games, built some of the first mobile gaming technology and content. In 2006, Blue Label Games was acquired by Japanese gaming leader Konami. The acquisition helped enable Konami’s mobile gaming division to become a top worldwide mobile game publisher. Anthony is also a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship and Gaming.
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About Faceroll Games, Flightly, Grab Games, University of Southern California, University of Southern California Marshall School of Business: Grab is focused on creating high-quality entertainment content across all major interactive platforms.
Boris Revsin
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Business Development & Strategy of Dailybreak
Boris Revsin is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of CampusLIVE, Inc, “The Homepage for College Students,” providing single-click access to the most widely used college resources. Boris has an extensive background in web development and digital media, founding his first website in 1999. While attending UMass Amherst, he worked as the Head of Operations for the Amherst-based web-development firm JaredWeb, Inc and as a web consultant for the 2008 Mitt Romney Presidential Campaign. Boris, along with the CampusLIVE team, was named 3rd place in the 2008 BusinessWeek “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25.” He has also been honored as an “Emerging Entrepreneur” by Deval Patrick and the Massachusetts Office of Business Development. BusinessWest Magazine named Boris Revsin to the 2010 class of “40 Under 40”.
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About Dailybreak, Fullstack Ventures, Republic, Republic Capital: A revolutionary online media platform that allows users to earn rewards for engaging in shareable, interactive content.
John Krajewski
Founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games
John Krajewski is founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games, a studio focused on evolving the classroom by connecting entertainment and educational games. He is currently the designer of the US Department of Education funded ecology game ‘Eco’ and the forthcoming National Science Foundation funded ‘Exo’. His background is the console games industry, having worked at EA and Midway prior to founding Strange Loop. After founding Strange Loop Games in 2009, he has led development on 6 titles including a suite of games for Amplify Education, and the Steam and Playstation Indie hit ‘Vessel’.
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About Strange Loop Games: Strange Loop Games is an video game developer.
Vlad Korolev
CEO & Co-Founder of Gunzilla Games
Vlad Korolev is the CEO and Co-Founder at Gunzilla Games.
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About Gunzilla Games, PLINK: Gunzilla Games is an independent, innovative, and player-focused developer of AAA games.
Bill Paxton
Co-Founder of Rockstar Games
Co-Founder at Rockstar Games.
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About Rockstar Games: Rockstar Games is a multinational video game development and publishing company.
Jesse Zhang
CEO and Founder of Lowkey
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About Camelot.ai, Lowkey, Lowkey: The home for watching and creating short gaming videos
Hao Li
CEO & Co-Founder of Pinscreen
Hao Li is Founder and CEO of Pinscreen, Inc., and Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He was previously Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Director of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, a visiting professor at Weta Digital and a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm. For his contributions in non-rigid shape registration, human digitization, and real-time facial performance capture, Hao received the TR35 Award in 2013, recognizing him as one of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35, from the MIT Technology Review. He was named Andrew and Erna Viterbi Early Career Chair in 2015, and was awarded the Google Faculty Research Award and the Okawa Foundation Research Grant the same year. He won the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 2018. He is best known for his work on dynamic geometry processing, facial animation, and data-driven techniques for making 3D human digitization and facial animation accessible to the masses. During his PhD, Hao co-created the first real-time and markerless system for performance-driven facial animation based on depth sensors. The team later commercialized a variant of this technology as the facial animation software Faceshift (acquired by Apple Inc. in 2015 and incorporated into the iPhone X in 2017). He was brought on as visiting professor at Weta Digital to build the high-fidelity facial performance capture pipeline for reenacting the deceased actor Paul Walker in the movie Furious 7 (2015). His recent research focuses on combining techniques in Deep Learning and Computer Graphics to facilitate the creation of 3D avatars and to enable true immersive face-to-face communication and telepresence in Virtual Reality.
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About Pinscreen, University of California Berkeley: Revolutionizing digital communication and online human interactions with user-generated and personalized 3D virtual avatars.
Benjamin Tse
Co-Founder & CPO of Genopets
Award-winning product designer with 15+ years in UI/UX, Business Strategy, SaaS, E-commerce, and Branding. 6 years in blockchain and crypto-asset platforms. Winner of EOS Global Hackathon in 2018.
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About Genopets, Hundredfold Studios: Genopets is a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life.
Jay Chang
Co-Founder of Genopets
Product Management and Marketing leader with 10+ years experience. 4 years in blockchain, 3 in product marketing leading the go-to-market for EOS at Block.one prior to joining Google’s P&E dev marketing team.
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About Genopets: Genopets is a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life.
Albert Chen
Co-Founder & CEO of Genopets
10+ years in growth marketing as owner of multiple e-commerce businesses. 10+ years in software development with 4 years focused in blockchain engineering. Winner of EOS Global Hackathon in 2018.
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About Cocoon Worldwide, Genopets, masklab: Genopets is a non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life.
Harry Gottlieb
Founder of Jackbox Games
Harry Gottlieb is Founder @ Jackbox Games.
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About Jackbox Games, Jellyvision: Jackbox Games is a multi-platform game publishing company that develops a portfolio of games for various platforms.
Jernej Barbic
Co-Founder and CTO of Ziva Dynamics
Jernej Barbic is the co-founder and CTO at Ziva Dynamics.
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About Ziva Dynamics: Ziva Dynamics is a software company that specializes in character creation and human simulation.
Jeffrey Tong
CEO & Co-Founder of Zelos Gaming
Jeffrey Tong serves as the CEO and founder of Zelos Gaming.
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About Zelos Gaming: Zelos is a cross-game rewards program that enables gamers to earn points by completing in-game tasks and redeem virtual prizes.
Derek Chiang
Co-Founder & CTO of Zelos Gaming
Derek Chiang serves as a co-founder and CTO at Zelos Gaming.
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About Zelos Gaming: Zelos is a cross-game rewards program that enables gamers to earn points by completing in-game tasks and redeem virtual prizes.
Stanley Adrianus
CEO & Founder of Gamenauts
Stanley is currently the founder & CEO of Gamenauts, a games developer/publisher in San Francisco Bay Area. The company has remained profitable and 100% self-funded since its founding in 2005. Gamenauts maintains a portfolio of several Top 10 titles in the App Store and over 16 million mobile downloads. Prior to Gamenauts, Stanley was Lead Designer at Yahoo! Games, where he was responsible for the UI/UX when the site grew to be #1 games portal on the web.
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About Gamenauts, Plato: Gaemnauts is a game developer and publisher of applications for mobile devices.
Mike Uyama
Co-Founder & Event Director of Games Done Quick
Mike Uyama is Co-Founder & Event Director at Games Done Quick.
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About Consultant, Games Done Quick: Games Done Quick is a charity video game marathon.
Ed Fries
Founder & Owner of FigurePrints
Ed Fries is the Board Director of Z2. He was a Vice President of game publishing at Microsoft during much of the Xbox’s lifecycle. He was a prime evangelist of the platform to game developers and had an important role in the acquisition of developers Bungie Studios, Ensemble Studios and Rare. He is currently listed as the Advisor for the Ouya, an Android-based game console and development platform.
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About 1Up Ventures, FigurePrints, Litesprite: At FigurePrints we create statues of video game characters using 3d color printing technology.
Michael Weiksner
Co-Founder and CTO of Pocketful of Quarters
Michael Weiksner is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pocketful of Quarters. He also serves as Chairman of e-thepeople.org and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Princeton University. He enjoys spending time with his wife and four kids.
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About EndlessTV, Pocketful of Quarters, SocialFeet, Tip or Skip: Pocketful of Quarters is a universal virtual currency platform for gaming, usable across different games and platforms.
Jesse Reich
CEO And Founder of Splinterlands
Jesse Reich is the CEO And Founder at Splinterlands.
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About Splinterlands: Splinterlands is a decentralized, digital collectible trading card game built on blockchain technology.
Shail Mehta
Co-Founder, CEO of Last Gameboard
Shail has a passion for gaming. She has a financial background working for hedge funds and venture capital funds, she has consulted for the Nuclear Regulatory Committee, City University of New York, City & County of Denver ‘s $254M RTA project and Triunity Engineering. She has managed teams and executed projects throughout her career. Shail is the driving force for the vision and future for TLG.
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About Last Gameboard: Last Gameboard is creating a digital tabletop gaming platform that merges physical and digital play experiences.
Yitao Guan
Co-Founder & CTO of FunPlus
Yitao Guan, Founder and CTO of FunPlus, is a technology enthusiast passionate about social, mobile, cloud and data. Prior to founding FunPlus, he worked as a software architect for more than 15 years with leading technology companies, including IBM and Ask.com, where he was responsible for building worldclass infrastructure accessible from anywhere with the capacity to process hundreds of millions requests every day. Yitao received both a Bachelor and Master of Science degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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About FunPlus: FunPlus is a leading global developer and publisher of free-to-play mobile games
Angela Antony
Founder and CEO of Scoutible
Angela Antony is the Founder and CEO of Scoutible, the world’s first game-based hiring platform, which uses machine learning to track soft skills through gameplay and uncover the best candidates for a job. Angela spent nine years at Harvard, focusing her psychology, business, and law degrees on labor market issues across society. After Harvard, she worked at the White House under Obama as part of the National Economic Council, during which time she was writing a book about her Harvard research titled Invisible Handcuffs, which ultimately became the primary research underlying Scoutible. Scoutible was recently named one of Inc Magazine’s 8 Most Innovative Startups of the Year and Angela was named to Inc’s Female Founders 100 list.
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
Tyler Law
CPO & Co-Founder of Scoutible
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About Scoutible: Scoutible is a video game-based hiring platform.
Wayne Mackey
Founder/CEO of Statespace
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About Statespace: Statespace provides performance analytics and a suite of tools for casual gamers and esports athletes to maximize their potential.
James Bower
Founder of Wikipad
James Bower is the president of MasterImage 3D, LLC.
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About Citizens Reserve, SUKU, Wikipad: Wikipad is an Android-powered gaming tablet that has the features of a high quality tablet and is tough enough to take all.
Michael Williams
President & CEO / Co-Founder of Oomba
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About Glytch, Oomba: Oomba is a specialized digital media company bringing elegant organization to sports and games.
Frederic Descamps
CEO & Co-Founder of Manticore Games
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About Manticore Games: Manticore Games develops Core, a platform to build, share, and play online games.
Jordan Maynard
Co-Founder of Manticore Games
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About Manticore Games: Manticore Games develops Core, a platform to build, share, and play online games.
Jong-Wook Shin
Founder, President and CEO of iiRcade
Results-driven, customer and consumer-focused executive with vision, dedication and drive to succeed. Visionary leader with strong entrepreneurship and innovation experiences as a founding CEO of an award-winning startup and vice president of innovations at LG Electronics. Winner of 2018 CES Innovation Award and Startup of the Year finalist recognitions at CES, IFA, Smart Kitchen Summit, Startup Conference. Recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious ‘Outstanding Top 45 Asian American in Business’ award in 2010 and Sony Mobile Presidential Award in 2011. 22+ years of experiences in the consumer electronics and mobile industry, leading organizations and creating innovative products with amazing experiences at Motorola, Sony Mobile, Intel, LG and HOPii. 16+ years of experiences in product management, product planning, product strategy, portfolio management, business strategies and business management. 18+ years of team management experiences and 8+ years of executive leadership experiences. 12+ years of strong experiences in disruptive innovations and entrepreneurship with startup experiences, new experience products and disruptive innovations creation accomplishments. Comprehensive knowledge and experiences in managing products from concept to launch and beyond. Strong business and technical skills. A dynamic self-starter with proven ability to resolve complex challenges in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Extensive experiences in customer and vendor management, and managing projects in both matrix organizations and startup environment. Excellent leadership skills from various executive leadership experiences. Kellogg MBA. Excellent people skills and highly persuasive negotiator. Strong communication and presentation skills. Great team player who is very dependable, very hard working and always makes a difference. Committed to professional excellence and success.
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About iiRcade: Bringing Arcade Gaming to the 21st Century
Arjita Sethi
Co Founder of Equally
Arjita is a teacher and a serial entrepreneur since 2004. She is currently the co-founder of Equally. Equally is building learning experiences using Augmented Reality adn Camera Vision that bring children closer to real world. She is currently serving on the Young Executive Advisory Board on the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center. She is also the co-founder of Startupindia.in , a startup based out of India that is providing tools and resources for entrepreneurs in India to create impactful startups Arjita is a passionate Social entrepreneur who completed her masters in social entrepreneurship from Hult international Business School. She works on projects which give social entrepreneurs & women entrepreneurs around the world an ecosystem of impact metrics, resources and right stakeholders to create maximum impact. She hopes to create awareness of social entrepreneurship globally. Leveraging her theatre background, she gives talks around her experiments with entrepreneurship. She was a speaker at TEDx San Francisco in 2015.
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About Equally: AR game platform for kids to learn and grow.
Andrew Lacy
Co-Founder and Director of Azarus
At Zaptravel, reinventing travel search through semantics, content and a commitment to beautiful products. Andrew is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor to startup companies. He is currently based in Europe but commute frequently to the Silicon Valley. He is presently working on Zaptravel, a disruptive personalization travel meta-search business. Zaptravel help people who don’t know when or where they want to go to great travel deals that match their interests and the experiences they want to have. Previously, he has been a Senior Vice-President at the Walt Disney Company responsible for operating their mobile development studios and outsourced development across the world and developing many transformational mobile products for the Group. He was a consultant at McKinsey & Company for 6 years where he consulted clients on technological solution to big data and collaboration challenges and investment and operational issues in the airline industry. Andrew has Law and Economic degrees from the University of Melbourne and an MBA from Stanford Business School. Some special skills: social gaming & mobile monetization, iOS & Android mobile launch, marketing, monetization strategies, building businesses around cloud/redis.
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About Azarus, Zaptravel: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Alexander Casassovici
Co-Founder & CEO of Azarus
Alexander is a serial entrepreneur with a strong experience in the mobile and consumer electronics industry. Based in Paris, France, he holds both a telecommunication engineer degree and an MBA. He created notably : * WaveStorm : wireless security solutions and wireless connected devices (including Meccano/Erector’s Spykee spy robot) * Kamayo : rich media mobile agency sold to Streamezzo group * VR-Wear : virtual reality headsets for the gaming industry Highly business oriented he also acts as a consultant for VCs during due-diligence phases and as a business angel.
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About actvt, Azarus, Diveboard, Mobitrends, Showdown.cc: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Erik Whiteford
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Azarus
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About Azarus: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Alex Casassovici
Co-Founder and CEO of Azarus
Alex is the founding partner of Bitflare Technologies, a blockchain-focused consulting firm specializing in blockchain architecture & token design. His previous venture, Showdown.cc, revolutioned the way game telemetry is used to build in-game communities. He’s an international speaker to world class events such as GDC.
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About Azarus, Diveboard: Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Carter Russ
Founder & CEO of Champions Round
I am an entrepreneur with a passion for creating exceptional products and building fantastic working cultures. I am the founder and CEO at Champions Round. I’m interested by sports tech, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, physics, investing, art and music, and pretty much anything nerdy or cool under the sun.
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About Champions Round: Fantasy & sports betting operator offering hyper casual skill based contests.
Joe Martin
Founder and CEO of Snatch
Forensic scientist turned entrepreneur and tech company founder. Joe has used his background in to behavioral psychology to take the unlikely step into brand and mobile marketing to huge effect. His first venture ‘Snatch’ – a mobile marketing platform packaged as augmented reality treasure hunt hit the #1 spot on the UK app stores in 2017 and fast became the #1 customer acquisition platform for the majority of over 200 brand partners thanks to the productization of his deeper level understanding of consumer behaviour that resulted in average offer redemptions of 34% (industry average 2%-5%) across a 9 month test period that accumulated over 1 million active users and resulted in Joe being invited to speak at some of the worlds most prestigious tech and marketing events from SXSW, CES, Founders Forum and Cannes Lion. He now returns with his second venture ‘Tickle’ to once again challenge the stat quo and to once again prove that advertising can and should entertain and reward.
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About Snatch, Tickle Global: Snatch is a computer game development company that provides a radical reinvention of the brand experience.
Joshua Barrow
Founder & CEO of Game Taco
Founder and CEO of Game Taco, Inc
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About Game Taco: Game Taco is an online skill-based video game tournament destination for cash entry fees and cash prizes.
Seth Sivak
Co-Founder & CEO of Proletariat
Seth Sivak is Founder & CEO of Proletariat.
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About Proletariat: Proletariat is a Boston-based startup built by game-industry veterans
Damon Iannuzzelli
Co Founder/Art Director of Proletariat
Damon Iannuzzelli joined Proletariat as Co Founder/Art Director in 2012.
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About Proletariat: Proletariat is a Boston-based startup built by game-industry veterans
Niko Vuori
Founder & CEO of Drivetime
Founder & CEO Drivetime, co-founder & COO of Rocket Games, product at ToyTalk & BranchOut, GM Zynga Poker, founder & CEO Informifi.
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About Drivetime: Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive.
Andrew Escher
Founder of MediaTech Ventures
Andrew Escher is the founder of MediaTech Ventures.
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About MediaTech Ventures: Venture development group, employing a proprietary framework connecting capital and advancing opportunities in modern media.
Will Deane
Founder & CEO of Rainmaker Games
Will Deane is the Founder & CEO at Rainmaker Games.
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About Rainmaker Games: Rainmaker Games is now offering a new and interesting way to invest in a portfolio of GameFi NFTs that can be used to earn blockchain games.
Sundance DiGiovanni
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Vindex
Sundance DiGiovanni is a seasoned executive, recognized thought leader in video game culture, and veteran creative director with more than 18 years of experience in the media, technology and video game industries. He co-founded MLG in 2002 with Mike Sepso, with the goal of creating a company that would reflect both his lifelong passion for gaming and his deeply competitive nature. Sundance currently serves as the CEO of MLG, focuseing on the long-term growth of competitive video gaming and the various distribution channels that are helping to bring this burgeoning sport to an ever-growing community. Prior to co-founding MLG, Sundance was Worldwide Creative director at Gotham Broadband, a broadband media pioneer. He is a veteran creative executive and has worked closely with a wide variety of brands, including AOL Time Warner, DirecTV, Sony, Pfizer, Nortel Networks, and Sprint.
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About Major League Gaming, Vindex: Vindex is a global esports and technology company that serves as the connective tissue between games and gamers.
Craig Lund
Co Founder & CEO of Mightier
Craig Lund is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Mightier.
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About Mightier: Mightier is a gaming platform and family program scientifically-proven to help kids regulate their emotions.
Jason Kahn
Founder, Chief Science Officer of Mightier
Dr Jason Kahn is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Neuromotion. He combines his expertise in developmental psychology and mental health to create video games that help children build emotional strength: the ability to harness their emotions to overcome behavioral challenges. Dr Kahn also holds an appointment at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he creates and researches new technology addressing acute problems in pediatric mental health.
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About Mightier: Mightier is a gaming platform and family program scientifically-proven to help kids regulate their emotions.
Gary Foreman
Co-Founder & CTO of Stakester
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About NextWave Safety Solutions, Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Brian Wilneff
CEO, Founder of GamerzArena
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About Alpha Metaverse Technologies Inc, GamerzArena: GamerzArena provides everyone with the platform to compete in eSports for cash prizes or sponsored product at any time.
Alex Rigopulos
Co-Founder & Chairman of Harmonix Music Systems
Alex Rigopulos Co-Founded Harmonix in 1995 with the mission of inventing new ways for non-musicians to experience the joy of making music. He was CEO until 2014. Now, as CCO, Alex is responsible for ensuring the creative excellence of all Harmonix products. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Alex studied computer music at the MIT Media Laboratory and music composition at MIT.
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About Harmonix Music Systems: Harmonix Music Systems is a videogame development company that offers Beatles and Rock Band music games in North America and more.
Alex Rigopoulos
Co-Founder and Chairman of Harmonix Music Systems
Co-Founder and Chairman at Harmonix.
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About Harmonix Music Systems: Harmonix Music Systems is a videogame development company that offers Beatles and Rock Band music games in North America and more.
Amish Shah
Founder of ReKTGlobal
Founding Partner for SierraMaya360 an Early Stage Venture Fund. “Bridging Hollywood, Technology and Beyond.” 2014 Top Newcomer in Venture Capital in North America and finished 2014 16th out of over 750 VC’s by industry leader Mattermark. More info on www.sierramaya360.vc Entrepreneur in new business ventures since 1995 from software recruiting companies and cutting edge internet startups. Investor and Strategic Advisor for both early stage startups and more established companies helping them with strategy, fundraising, branding, image makeover and building successful teams with top talent. Frequent TV guest on CNBC, FOX NEWS, BLOOMBERG and quoted in Wall Street Journal, NY Times, San Jose Mercury, LA Times and other leading publications globally. TOP 7 to Watch for 2014 in the Charlotte Observer for the region. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/12/30/4577216/entrepreneur-finds-comfort-in.html#.Utadj55dVn8 CEO and Founder for Millennium Search LLC.
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About Millennium Search LLC, ReKTGlobal, SierraMaya360: ReKTGlobal is a business authority in e-sports and competitive gaming.
David Bialek
Co-Founder & CEO of ReKTGlobal
With over 25 years in the sports marketing & media world, Dave made the jump to esports with his co-founding of ReKTGlobal. Dave has spearheaded the creation of multiple advertising platforms in the place-based, streaming media and sports advertising space. He is credited with building two groundbreaking initiatives in collegiate sports. First, he led a sales team to create the iconic Allstate Field Goal Net program in NCAA Football. Second, he invented a “profile” position on NCAA and NBA basket stanchions, with which State Farm has become synonymous. The stanchion sign is widely considered to be the most impactful signage position in all of sports. For this latest pursuit, Dave became a recipient of the prestigious Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award. His work in the traditional sports marketplace can be seen far and wide, and he’s bringing the very same creative approach to the esports ecosystem.
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About ReKTGlobal: ReKTGlobal is a business authority in e-sports and competitive gaming.
Neil Young
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of N3TWORK
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Alan Yu
Co-Founder of N3TWORK
Alan Yu is a founder of N3TWORK, a creator and publisher of mobile games. He previously founded ngmoco:) which was acquired by DeNA in 2010. Many years ago, Alan was the director of GDC.
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Steve Detwiler
Co-Founder of N3TWORK
Stephen Detwiler is a co-founder of N3TWORK.
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Markus Persson
Founder and Game Developer of Mojang Studios
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About Mojang Studios, Trilogy: Mojang is a Swedish game developer creating independent video games such as Minecraft.
Aron Beierschmitt
Co-Founder, CEO of Laguna Games
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About Laguna Games: Laguna Games is a research and game development studio that specializes in making blockchain tech.
John Fazio
Founder & CEO of Nerd Street Gamers
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About Jarvus Innovations, Jarvus Innovations, Nerd Street Gamers: Nerd Street Gamers is a national network of eSports facilities and events dedicated to power competitive opportunities for gamers.
Marcus Brauchli
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of North Base Media
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About North Base Media: An operator-led investment firm focused on opportunities in digital media in emerging markets.
Justin Bailey
Founder & CEO of Fig
Mr. Bailey has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Fig since he started the company in November of 2014. Mr. Bailey has been active in the video game industry from an early age, programming his first graphic adventure game in assembly at age 8. His first job was selling games at a software store called Babbage’s, which eventually became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the video game retailer now called GameStop Corporation. Mr. Bailey’s work in video games includes experience publishing a variety of free-to-play, premium and mobile games, such as Broken Age (FKA Double Find Adventures), Massive Chalice, Middle Manager of Justice, and Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter. Since 2008, Mr. Bailey has secured over $100 million in game financing from publishers, investors and crowdfunding, resulting in returns totaling over $250 million. Mr. Bailey previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Double Fine Productions, Inc.
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About Fig: Fig is a crowdfunding platform for video games.
Ken Bretschneider
CEO & Founder of Evermore Park
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About Evermore Park, THE VOID: Evermore is an Experience Park: a place to explore, wonder, and discover
Giovanno Yosen Utomo
Co-Founder and CEO of Fulldive
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About Fulldive: Fulldive Browser – browse, chat on any page and earn coins for your data, available on iOS and Android | Fulldive VR – #1 VR app on Android.
Edward Andrew Ow
Co-Founder and Chief Creative Strategist of Fulldive
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About Fulldive: Fulldive Browser – browse, chat on any page and earn coins for your data, available on iOS and Android | Fulldive VR – #1 VR app on Android.
Chandana Ekanayake
Co-Founder of Outerloop Games
Chandana Ekanayake is Co-Founder and Studio Director at Outerloop Games, and has over twenty years experience as a video game designer and art director. Outerloop’s first game Falcon Age is a sci-fi VR action adventure about raising a baby falcon and reclaiming a cultural legacy from a force of automated colonizers.
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About Outerloop Games: Outerloop Games is a Seattle based independent video game studio.
Andrew Paradise
CEO & Founder of Skillz
Andrew Paradise founded Skillz Inc. in 2012 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Skillz, Mr. Paradise was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AisleBuyer LLC, the first mobile self-checkout company that was acquired by Intuit and is now Intuit GoPayment. Prior to AisleBuyer, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Double Picture LLC, a web 2.0 digital media and advertising company. Before his career as a technology entrepreneur, Andrew worked in private equity and venture capital investing for Fort Washington Capital Partners and The Watermill Group.
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About Skillz: Skillz is a marketplace platform for competition-based mobile games.
Julie Uhrman
Founder & CEO of OUYA
Julie Uhrman is a video game entrepreneur. She is founder and CEO of OUYA—an innovative gaming console that enables any developer to publish a console game by bringing the mobile app model to the TV. OUYA is a powerful, beautifully designed, open and inexpensive alternative to traditional game consoles. Julie started in the game business ten years ago. Before launching OUYA, she held several executive roles with video game companies such as GameFly, IGN (where she led digital distribution and business development) and Vivendi Universal. Julie loves to play games: she plays platformers, 3rd person shooters and she loves playing games on a TV. But the last few years, she’s played more on mobile phones, because that’s where the action’s been. She wants to go back to playing on a TV. By combining a classic console format with the ease of access of open mobile SDKs, Julie seeks to make OUYA the open pathway for all developers—AAA and indie alike—to bring their craft to the world.
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About Angel City, Highway1, OUYA: OUYA develops and delivers open video game consoles for televisions.
Luke Burtis
Founder & Managing Partner of TinyBuild
Luke Burtis is a Founder at tinyBuild GAMES.
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About TinyBuild: TinyBuild is a Indie Game Developer and Publisher.
Lee Jacobson
CEO / Co-Founder of Robot Cache
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About Robot Cache: Robot Cache is a PC video game distribution platform with a revolutionary digital resale model that allows gamers to ‘re-sell’ their games.
Mark Caldwell
CTO / Co-Founder of Robot Cache
Mark is an Entrepreneur and Gaming veteran who has created and won awards for games on platforms from the Apple II to the Xbox 360 and as been working in Social games for the last year and a half. Formerly the VP of Engineering for Playdom and Disney (DIMG), Mark has previously been the CEO and co-founder of several gaming companies over the last 25 years, including New World Computing, Rapid Eye Entertainment, and Pacific Beach Digital. He has won numerous product awards and co-created a number of franchises, which are still going strong today. Career highlights include: Winning a BAFTA and Strategy Game of the Year in 2006. Most notable games are Might and Magic, Heroes, Rise and Fall, Unreal Tournament, and Lord of the Rings Online.
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About Robot Cache: Robot Cache is a PC video game distribution platform with a revolutionary digital resale model that allows gamers to ‘re-sell’ their games.
Chris Roberts
Founder/Chairman & CEO of Cloud Imperium
Chris Roberts is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries.
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About Cloud Imperium: Cloud Imperium aims to pave new ground in game development by sharing the process with the players.
Ortwin Freyermuth
Co-Founder & Vice Chairman of Cloud Imperium
Ortwin Freyermuth is a Co-Founder, Vice-Chairman & General Counsel at Cloud Imperium Games.
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About Cloud Imperium: Cloud Imperium aims to pave new ground in game development by sharing the process with the players.
Arthur Goikhman
Co-Founder & CEO of SurrealVR, Inc
Arthur Goikhman co-founded Surre.al in 2011. He previously co-founded Cellufun, an early leader in the mobile gaming space, which he took from a vision to a company with a run rate of $10 million annual revenue and the top tier of the Inc. 500 Startups list by growing it 2400 percent within three years. Prior to Cellufun, Goikhman co-founded Spiderphone Conferencing and S&G, a boutique Wall Street consultancy whose clients included Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Bank One, and Prudential. Goikhman has been a frequent speaker at mobile industry conferences and was honored to accept the Best Mobile Game 2008 Award for Cellufun’s Call of the Pharaoh at the World Mobile Congress.
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About SurrealVR, Inc: Surreal Games is an immersive game world where players engage in real-time interactive adventures of their choosing.
Johnny Monsarrat
Founder, CEO of Monsarrat
In 1994, Johnny Monsarrat invented the MMO at founder and CEO of Turbine, which won two videogame “Oscars”, created a market now earning $20 billion a year, and was bought by Warner Brothers for $160 million. Now as CEO of Monsarrat, Inc., Johnny Monsarrat and a team of former Turbine staff are inventing the next big thing after Pokemon Go. Johnny Monsarrat is an Ivy League award-winning public speaker educated at Harvard, Brown University, MIT, and MIT Sloan.
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About Monsarrat: The next big thing in mobile AR walking games
Chet Faliszek
Co-Founder and CEO of Stray Bombay
Chet Faliszek is an American videogame writer and one of the main writers for the Valve Corporation, formerly along with Erik Wolpaw and Marc Laidlaw before their departure. He has worked together with his co-writers in order to create the storylines for the Half-Life and Portal series, along with having personally written the story for Left 4 Dead. Faliszek was also the creator of the Old Man Murray website with Wolpaw, which was shut down in 2002.
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About Stray Bombay: Stray Bombay is a studio made up of Industry veterans and making cooperative games.
Barry Sandrew
Co-Founder & Chairman of Arival
Barry Sandrew, Ph.D., after leaving his position as staff neuroscientist at Harvard and Mass General Hospital, invented the first all-digital technology and process for colorizing black and white feature films. He subsequently founded American Film Technologies and produced colorized films for Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Paramount, Sony, Japan’s Tsuburaya, BBC and several other major global media and distribution companies. He founded Legend Films in 2000 and after being introduced to digital 3D in 2007, Dr. Sandrew created a conversion process and pipeline that eventually became the gold standard of 3D conversion, an accomplishment that stands today. In 2010, following the release of Alice in Wonderland, he changed the name of Legend Films to Legend3D, in order for the company to focus entirely on the stereoscopic conversion of feature films and commercials. Learn more about how Legend3D has become today’s highest-quality producer of 3D conversion in the industry and a key innovator in 3D conversion technology here. To learn more about Dr. Sandrew’s reflections on the growth of 3D,
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About Arival: Arival technology brings your fans into the game like never before, using augmented reality to visualize real-time player data.
Mary Spio
Founder, Chief Visionary & Product Architect of CEEK
Mary Spio is a Founder, Chief Visionary & Product Architect at CEEK since 2016.
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About CEEK, Ceek VR: CEEK is a mobile VR App for connecting with bands in the ultimate virtual reality experience.
Zaid Elnasser
Co-Founder / Replay Engineer of Medal
Zaid Elnasser is a Co-Founder and Replay Engineer at Medal.
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About Medal: Medal is a developer of a short-form gaming video clips platform to share digital game clips and highlights with gamers.
Jonathan Mavor
Co-Founder and CTO of Uber Entertainment
Jonathan Mavor is the Board Member of Uber Entertainment.
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About Uber Entertainment: Uber Entertainment is a video game development company whose products include Monday Night Combat and Planetary Annihilation.
Will Dean
Co-Founder & CEO of Electric Gamebox
Will Dean is a Co-Founder of Immersive Games Lab and the Founder of Tough Mudder Inc. Dean came up with the idea for a series of a military obstacle course challenges while completing his MBA at the Harvard Business School. Since launching in 2010, Tough Mudder has attracted more than three million participants worldwide and generates annual global revenues in excess of $100m. In 2017, Dean was made MBE by Queen Elizabeth II for his charitable contributions to sport. He chairs the advisory group for the Centre for Entrepreneurship at Bristol University (his undergraduate alma mater). He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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About Electric Gamebox, Tough Mudder: Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team adventures in the world’s smartest room
Konstantin Boyko-Romanovsky
Founder of The Abyss
Konstantin Boyko-Romanovsky is the Founder of The Abyss.
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About The Abyss: The Abyss is a next-generation digital distribution platform.
Matthew Gunnin
CEO/Founder of Esports One
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About Esports One, Esportspedia: Esports One is the first real-time fantasy platform that makes watching esports competitive.
Manish Gupta
Co-Founder, CTO of Vivid Vision
Manish left IBM to co-found the company in 2014. Experienced in both engineering and design, Manish leads development at Vivid Vision.
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About SeQuent Scientific, Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
James Blaha
Founder, CEO of Vivid Vision
Founder, CEO of Vivid Vision.
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About Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
Tuan Tran
Chief of Optometry/Co-Founder of Vivid Vision
Tran is an Optometrist from Detroit, MI. He is the Chief of Optometry and Co-Founder at Vivid Vision.
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About Vivid Vision: Vivid Vision uses cutting edge technology to create unique vision tests and treatments.
Austin Woolridge
Co-Founder / CEO of Players’ Lounge
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About Players’ Lounge: Players’ Lounge is an online platform where gamers can compete for cash.
Zach Dixon
Co-Founder of Players’ Lounge
I am named after my late grandfather, Dave Dixon, a legendary Louisiana sports entrepreneur who believed above all else in the power of people. Show them a vision they can believe in and the sky is the limit. He helped create the New Orleans Saints, the Louisiana Superdome, and United States Football League. My dream is to affect soccer and eSports as my grandfather did football. After receiving a full scholarship to attend Phillips Academy Andover (MA), I received my BA in French Studies from Wesleyan University. I have an immense passion for learning languages, soccer, video games, and experiential marketing. Fluent in French. Self-Taught Intermediate Portuguese, Self-Taught Intermediate Spanish.
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About New York City Football Club, Players’ Lounge: Players’ Lounge is an online platform where gamers can compete for cash.
Dan Delaney
Co-Founder of Players’ Lounge
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About Players’ Lounge: Players’ Lounge is an online platform where gamers can compete for cash.
Alexandr Agapitov
CEO & Founder of Xsolla
Agapitov is a Partner of the Xsolla Capital fund – a $50 million venture capital fund focused on royalty based deals exclusively within the video game market. Xsolla Capital is the premier partner within the $100 billion video game industry, the largest segment of the global entertainment industry. Xsolla Capital provides independent video game developers with capital and access to innovative tools and markets to launch games. Xsolla Capital was born out of Xsolla, Inc, the foremost global publishing and distribution platform in the video game industry. Xsolla Capital & Xsolla Inc. are headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California with offices globally.
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About 80 Level, Slemma, Xsolla, Xsolla Capital, YPO: Xsolla is the video game business engine with a set of tools and services that help to operate and sell more games.
Jikhan Jung
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Subdream Studios
Jikhan Jung is an entrepreneur and gaming visionary with over 10 years of experience across PC & Mobile platforms. Jikhan began his gaming career at Excite Japan in 2004 and then moved on to found Gala-Net, Inc a year later. Gala-Net was the first free-2-play PC gaming portal (named gPotato.com in North America in May 2005). Capitalizing on the positive reception in the NA market, Jikhan moved on to expand the business across Europe and South America by establishing Gala-Networks Europe and Gala-Net Brazil respectively. Over 22MM gamers have used Gala-Net/gPotato. In February 2013, gPotato was successfully sold to Webzen at a $20MM valuation.
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About Subdream Studios: Esports Game Developer and Publisher.
Ben Keighran
CEO & Co-Founder of Caffeine
Ben Keighran is an Australian born technology entrepreneur and serial entrepreneur. He is the CEO and founder of Caffeine, a social broadcasting platform that delivers live, interactive content at the intersection of gaming, sports, and entertainment. Caffeine has raised $146 million to date from investors in 3 rounds led by 21st Century Fox, Andreesen Horowitz, and Greylock Partners. Ben began his career in 2006 when he relocated from Sydney to San Francisco and raised $6.5 million for his mobile social messaging application, Bluepulse. Bluepulse launched in December 2006 as a social messaging app, where Keighran worked on designing a standard for publishing content on mobile, including text messages and other types of communications. Keighran’s next venture was serving as the lead advisor for social search service Aardvark’s mobile strategy. Aardvark was eventually acquired by Google for $50 million in 2010. After Aardvark, Keighran went on to found app search and discovery platform Chomp in 2009 which raised a little over $2.5 million over two rounds. Chomp was one of the earliest startups to offer both app search and personalized app recommendations for the iPhone app. Keighran led the company in developing its unique app search formula and filing 11 patents based on these new app search technologies and user experience. Chomp’s iPhone app offered app search and personalized app recommendations as well, making the startup one of the earliest services to offer that mixed functionality. In 2012, Chomp was acquired by Apple for $50 million and the technology was used to help overhaul the iTunes and App Store search experience. After joining Apple, Keighran spent the next four years overseeing software design on the Apple TV. Keighran helped design the look and feel of the software featured in the 4th generation Apple TV. Finally, in 2016, Keighran left Apple to start his most recent company Caffeine.
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About Caffeine: Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content.
Ricci Rukavina
Founder | Chief Executive Officer of Kung Fu Factory
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About Kung Fu Factory: Kung Fu Factory is a Console, PC, and Mobile Game Developer and Publisher.
