Best VCs for Gaming

No verified personal or current Hashed check range is published for Sean. Hashed invests its own resources from day zero through global scale, but vehicle, allocation, token/equity mix, ownership, reserves and Sean's role in a decision should be confirmed directly.

#4Sean Hong

CFO & Partner

Hashed

Sean's distinctive contribution is financial rigor inside Hashed's builder-led frontier-technology platform. His private-equity and non-marketable-securities valuation background is most relevant when

2 deals

Company FormationPre-SeedSeed

#5Baek Kim

Partner

Hashed

Baek invests in infrastructure and applications that make decentralized systems useful to ordinary users. His writing connects mass adoption to better user experience, privacy-preserving computation,

No personal check range is publicly disclosed. A 2022 Notifi investment note identifies a $2.5M pre-seed round led by Hashed, while the firm's 2021 Venture Fund II was $200M; neither figure should be treated as Baek's standard or current personal ticket.

2 deals

No verified personal or current Hashed check range is published on Tak's profile. Founders should confirm vehicle, stage, token/equity structure, geographic fit, lead appetite and reserves directly rather than using third-party estimates.

#6Tak Lee

Venture Partner

Hashed

Tak brings a multilingual company-building and cross-border advisory lens to Hashed's crypto investment platform. His explicit remit is India and other emerging markets, making him most relevant to fo

2 deals

No personal or role-specific check range is publicly disclosed. Hashed describes itself as an early, hands-on investor across AI, crypto and frontier technology; founders should confirm vehicle, round and decision process directly rather than infer authority from title.

#7SJ Baek

Principal

Hashed

SJ combines strategic-investment experience in gaming and entertainment with broad early-stage venture diligence and cross-border operating work. His current public activity centers on connecting Kore

2 deals

#8Alex Odagiu

Investment Director

Binance Labs

Investment Director at Binance Labs, evaluating and leading investments across the Binance ecosystem.

2 deals

Not applicable to his current role: First Round states that Chris has made no new investments since becoming a Board Partner in 2019. Historical round or check data should not be used to imply current investment authority.

#9Simon Seojoon Kim

CEO

Hashed

Korean web3 ecosystem. Backed Axie Infinity, Klaytn.

2 deals

SeedSeries AToken

#10Chris Fralic

Board Partner

First Round Capital

Chris is now a portfolio-support and board partner rather than an active new-investment partner. His historical investing centered on advertising and marketing technology, social and mobile products,

1 deals

Existing Portfolio SupportBoard Service

#11Kelvin Koh

Co-founder & Managing Partner

The Spartan Group

Spartan Group is a multi-strategy crypto fund based in Singapore, investing in DeFi, gaming, and infrastructure across Asia and globally. Known for advisory work and token launches.

1 deals

SeedSeries AStrategic

#12Craig Blair

Co-founder & Partner

AirTree Ventures (Web3)

AirTree is one of Australia's top VCs, with a dedicated web3 thesis. Invests in blockchain infrastructure and gaming, including early backing of Immutable and Fantom.

1 deals

#13Melody He

Co-founder & Managing Partner

The Spartan Group

Co-leads Spartan Group's investment and advisory practice. Focus on token design, go-to-market strategy, and connecting projects to the Asian crypto ecosystem.

1 deals

#14Anil Lulla

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Delphi Ventures

Co-founder of Delphi Digital and Delphi Ventures. Thesis-driven investing informed by deep crypto research and data analysis.

1 deals

#15Piers Kicks

Partner

Delphi Ventures

Crypto-native researcher and investor at Delphi Ventures. Focuses on metaverse, gaming, and culture layers of web3.

1 deals

#16Eric Nicomedez

Investment Associate

The Spartan Group

1 deals

#17Alexander Laidlaw

Investment Analyst

The Spartan Group

1 deals

$1M-$100M+ (from $2B+ crypto funds — 5th fund raising in 2026)

#18Chris Dixon

General Partner, a16z crypto (Founder & Lead)

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

The crypto conviction investor. Founded and leads a16z's crypto practice, which has deployed billions across five funds. Author of 'Read Write Own' (2024), arguing that blockchain enables a new era of

$1M-$100M+ (from a16z's $5.2B AI fund, largest sector allocation in 2026)

#19Anjney Midha

General Partner

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

Leads a16z's AI investments from the $5.2B AI allocation — the firm's largest sector bet ever. Anjney came to AI from an unusual path: he previously led a16z's crypto gaming investments, giving him de

#20Alvin Kan

Head of SEA & MENA

BNB Chain MVB (Central Asia)

Supporting blockchain innovation in Central Asia through BNB Chain's MVB program. Focused on growing the BNB Chain ecosystem in underserved markets.

Pre-seedSeed

#21Cathy Hackl

Angel / Advisor

Pioneer in metaverse and spatial computing strategy. Focuses on the intersection of blockchain, virtual worlds, and immersive technology.

No reliable personal check range or current Blockchain Capital authority is public. Third-party ranges are stale and were excluded. Historical work included consumer-crypto diligence and portfolio support; founders must contact a currently listed Blockchain Capital investor for live check size and sponsorship.

#22Sterling Campbell

Former Investor, Blockchain Capital (off current roster)

Blockchain Capital

In his Blockchain Capital work, Sterling focused on the intersection of consumers and crypto. He saw gaming as a mass-onboarding path because persistent games, interoperable assets and player-owned ec

Historical seed and venture investingConsumer-crypto diligencePortfolio support

#23Laura K. Inamedinova

General Partner

ALPS Capital

Laura currently backs institution-grade financial-market infrastructure for digital assets and AI as TradFi moves onchain. Her stated targets include payments, stablecoins, clearing and settlement, tr

No current ALPS check size is publicly disclosed. Laura's September 2026 criteria specify Pre-Seed to Seed companies valued below $30M; that is a valuation ceiling and stage filter, not a stated check range.

#24Haseeb Qureshi

Managing Partner

Dragonfly

Infrastructure, DeFi, and crypto gaming. Clear thinking and good writing.

No personal check-size or allocation authority is published. 1confirmation describes itself as an early-stage venture fund; firm assets or round sizes should not be treated as Brett's personal range.

#25Brett Shear

GENERAL PARTNER

1confirmation

Brett focuses on crypto-native consumer products that bridge onchain ownership with mainstream culture. His published work looks for applications built around existing behaviors—playing games for mone

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Sophie's personal allocation range.

#26Sophie Chiu

Investment Director

AppWorks

Sophie backs Asian founders applying AI to transformative products and organizational models. Her current work spans personalized AI, gaming, agentic systems, and AI-enabled work; her broader investme

No reliable public standard ticket or Jehan-specific approval range was found. Kenetic invests its family-office capital in direct blockchain companies, tokens and other crypto funds, and its published site emphasizes Series A/B equity; historical and interview evidence also shows seed, token and incubation activity. Ask directly rather than inferring a check from round size.

#27Jehan Chu

Founder & Managing Partner

Kenetic Capital

Jehan treats blockchain as the next internet and backs the data, infrastructure, enterprise, trading and financial systems that can anchor a natively digital economy. He underwrites the founders first

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Ching's personal allocation range.

#28Ching Tseng

Investment Director

AppWorks

Ching backs global Web3 founders and infrastructure that can make decentralized systems useful, secure, and accessible at scale. Her work emphasizes founder vision, determination, domain expertise, an

No reliable personal check range or individual signing authority is public. Jin Ming Neo is a research associate, so founders should treat HashKey Capital's fund strategy—not a directory estimate—as the relevant context and confirm stage, allocation, lead role, ownership, token/equity structure, and decision process with the investment team.

#29Jin Ming Neo

Sr. Investment Research Associate

HashKey Capital

Jin Ming Neo contributes to broad, research-led sector evaluation across Web3. HashKey's coauthored 1H 2024 analysis favors teams with defined technical advantages, credible go-to-market, or proven ex

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#30Gabby Dizon

Angel Investor & Founder

YGG is the largest blockchain gaming guild, pioneering the play-to-earn economy. YGG Ventures invests in gaming, metaverse, and the creator economy in web3.

#31Robbie Ferguson

Co-founder & President

Immutable Ventures

Built Immutable as the leading web3 gaming platform. Immutable Ventures invests in blockchain gaming and NFT infrastructure from Australia.

Sfermion does not publish a first-party check-size range or Dan's individual authority. Public deal records show participation in seed and Series A rounds, but round totals and third-party estimates are not treated as his personal check size.

#32Dan Patterson

Managing Partner

Sfermion

Dan co-leads Sfermion's investment strategy around the experiential internet: founders, companies, and digital assets that merge physical and digital life through web3, AI, AR, and VR. The firm's dura

No personal check-size range is published. Faction invests at Seed and Series A using equity and tokens; its fund commitments and disclosed financing totals should not be interpreted as Samuel's standard check.

#33Samuel Harrison

Managing Partner

Lightspeed Faction

Samuel backs early crypto infrastructure and protocols that make blockchain useful at scale. His public focus includes wallets, brokerages, developer tools, remittances, stablecoin and payment rails,

SeedSeries AToken Networks

#34Dora Yue

Founder of OKX Ventures

OKX Ventures

OKX Ventures invests in blockchain infrastructure, DeFi, and Web3 globally. As the venture arm of OKX exchange, focuses on projects that advance the open and decentralized web.

Maki Fund III currently states €300K–€3M initial tickets in pre-seed and seed rounds below €5M, with follow-on reserves. This is the active firm's range, not Ilkka's personal or current new-deal authority; his stated remit focuses on existing portfolio companies.

#35Ilkka Kivimäki

Founding Partner & Advisor of Maki.vc

Maki.vc (Web3)

Ilkka co-built Maki around entrepreneurial DNA, technical depth, non-consensus first-round decisions and Nordic founders with global category ambition. His documented portfolio work spans gaming, smar

Pre-SeedSeedFirst Institutional Round

#36Prashanth Swaminathan

Venture Partner

Woodstock Fund

Prashanth works within Woodstock's research-led early- and growth-stage Web3 strategy. The firm's three lenses are convergence, financialisation, and virtualisation: interoperable infrastructure that

Woodstock does not publish a personal check range for Prashanth on its site. Third-party databases estimate firm ranges, but those estimates and portfolio round sizes are not treated as evidence of his individual authority.

Personal check size is not publicly disclosed. CoinFund invests from pre-seed through Series A and in liquid digital assets across multiple strategies.

#37Evan Feng

Partner

CoinFund

Evan applies fundamental-investing discipline to both venture and liquid crypto: identify the metrics that genuinely drive an asset, forecast them, define thesis-invalidation points in advance, and pr

$100K–$1M was the published CoinDCX Ventures range at launch in May 2022 for global Seed through Series A investments. The live firm page still confirms an early-stage global mandate but does not restate the range, so founders should verify the current ticket directly.

#38Rohit Jain

Managing Partner

CoinDCX Ventures

Rohit backs early-stage Web3 businesses where decentralization produces a materially better product—not blockchain for its own sake. He looks for valuable, sustainable companies and balances thesis co

#39Vance Spencer

Co-Founder & General Partner

Framework Ventures

DeFi, gaming, consumer crypto. High-conviction bets and active portfolio support.

Firm-level: AppWorks publishes a US$200K to US$15M per-deal range across Seed through Series C, with capacity to lead or follow and reserve capital for follow-ons. This is not Jessica's personal allocation range.

#40Jessica Liu

Partner

AppWorks

Jessica invests across Southeast Asian consumer internet and blockchain, especially where deep technology improves a familiar consumer behavior or unlocks a regional distribution advantage. Her portfo

Not publicly disclosed. Northzone states that the firm invests from Seed through Growth and can remain a partner through pre-IPO; Wendy's current profile labels her personal focus as Early and says she likes to work with founders from as early as seed.

#41Wendy Xiao

Partner

Northzone (Web3)

Wendy backs companies that change consumer behavior and expand the economic pie by capturing neglected externalities. She studies technology through people and behavior change, looking for a valuable

SeedSeries AEarly Stage

#42Kadri Härma

Venture Partner

Sisu Game Ventures

Kadri Härma invests or supports investment decisions through Sisu Game Ventures's published strategy: Invest very early, often before product or revenue, in exceptional game-development teams and help

Sisu Game Ventures does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official website.

gCC's older first-party FAQ stated typical $250K–$1M checks at friends-and-family through pre-Series A, occasionally Series A. Treat this as historical firm guidance—not Evans's personal or necessarily current range—and confirm Fund II sizing, lead appetite and structure directly.

#43Evans Huangfu

Partner

gumi Cryptos Capital

Evans leads gCC's Asia strategy with a consumer-crypto and multi-chain background. His prior portfolio and current mandate point to high-conviction early-stage founders building foundational Web3 laye

Mantis VC does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#44Josh Klein

Partner

Mantis VC

Josh Klein invests or supports investments through Mantis VC's published strategy: Back technology-enabled companies at Seed and Series A across enterprise, AI and machine learning, cloud and data, he

Mantis VC does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#45Mac Clark

Partner

Mantis VC

Mac Clark invests or supports investments through Mantis VC's published strategy: Back technology-enabled companies at Seed and Series A across enterprise, AI and machine learning, cloud and data, hea

Mantis VC does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#46Gaurav Bhogale

Investor and Head of Platform

Mantis VC

Gaurav Bhogale is listed in a Investor and Head of Platform capacity at Mantis VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinc

Mantis VC does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#47Stephen O'Brien

Chief Financial Officer

Mantis VC

Stephen O'Brien is listed in a Chief Financial Officer capacity at Mantis VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction

Mantis VC does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#48John Passen

Venture Partner

Mantis VC

John Passen invests or supports investments through Mantis VC's published strategy: Back technology-enabled companies at Seed and Series A across enterprise, AI and machine learning, cloud and data, h

Mantis VC does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#49Saveena Mandadi

Chief of Staff to Managing Partner and Operations Associate

Mantis VC

Saveena Mandadi is listed in a Chief of Staff to Managing Partner and Operations Associate capacity at Mantis VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this prof

Mantis VC does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#50Malisa Gandevani

Data Scientist

Mantis VC

Malisa Gandevani is listed in a Data Scientist capacity at Mantis VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and uses

Mantis VC does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

#51Julian Gideon

AI and Engineering

Mantis VC

Julian Gideon is listed in a AI and Engineering capacity at Mantis VC. The firm does not publish a person-specific investment thesis for this role; this profile preserves that role distinction and use

Dreamcraft Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

#52Daniel Mariussen

Partner

Dreamcraft Ventures

Daniel Mariussen invests or supports investments through Dreamcraft Ventures's published strategy: Back founders building gaming, media, betting, sports, and enabling infrastructure businesses that co

Dreamcraft Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

#53Jesper Søgaard

Partner

Dreamcraft Ventures

Jesper Søgaard invests or supports investments through Dreamcraft Ventures's published strategy: Back founders building gaming, media, betting, sports, and enabling infrastructure businesses that comp

Dreamcraft Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

#54Nikolaj Nyholm

Partner

Dreamcraft Ventures

Nikolaj Nyholm invests or supports investments through Dreamcraft Ventures's published strategy: Back founders building gaming, media, betting, sports, and enabling infrastructure businesses that comp

Dreamcraft Ventures does not publish a current standard check-size range on its website.

#55René Rechtman

Partner

Dreamcraft Ventures

René Rechtman invests or supports investments through Dreamcraft Ventures's published strategy: Back founders building gaming, media, betting, sports, and enabling infrastructure businesses that compe