Entertainment

Sfermion

Check: 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.

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 durable behavioral lens is creation, connection, and competition, with a portfolio orientation toward digital media, entertainment, games, creator infrastructure, and the systems that let communities own and exchange digital value.

AppWorks

Check: 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.

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 portfolio and writing emphasize strong user experience, scalable community or network effects, methodical technical execution, and go-to-market models that can start bottom-up before expanding into larger enterprise or regional relationships.

TomCat Ventures

Check: TomCat Ventures does not publish one standard current check-size range on its official website.

Catrin Gruederich invests or supports investment decisions through TomCat Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in sustainable technology-driven businesses and work closely with a small portfolio using founder experience across product, operations and go-to-market.

Audacity

Check: Audacity does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

AVT Shankardass invests or supports investments through Audacity's published strategy: Back founders rewiring media through AI-native workflows, infrastructure, tools and monetization platforms, with India-to-U.S. cross-border support.

Audacity

Check: Audacity does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Will Heins invests or supports investments through Audacity's published strategy: Back founders rewiring media through AI-native workflows, infrastructure, tools and monetization platforms, with India-to-U.S. cross-border support.

TomCat Ventures

Check: TomCat Ventures does not publish one standard current check-size range on its official website.

Thomas Gruederich invests or supports investment decisions through TomCat Ventures's published strategy: Invest early in sustainable technology-driven businesses and work closely with a small portfolio using founder experience across product, operations and go-to-market.

Audacity

Check: Audacity does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Kabir Kochhar invests or supports investments through Audacity's published strategy: Back founders rewiring media through AI-native workflows, infrastructure, tools and monetization platforms, with India-to-U.S. cross-border support.

Audacity

Check: Audacity does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Gaurav Verliani invests or supports investments through Audacity's published strategy: Back founders rewiring media through AI-native workflows, infrastructure, tools and monetization platforms, with India-to-U.S. cross-border support.

Audacity

Check: Audacity does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Namisha Mehra invests or supports investments through Audacity's published strategy: Back founders rewiring media through AI-native workflows, infrastructure, tools and monetization platforms, with India-to-U.S. cross-border support.

Audacity

Check: Audacity does not publish a standard current check-size range on its official site.

Omisha Chhetri is listed in a Finance and Operations capacity at Audacity. No person-specific investment thesis is published for this role; the firm's mandate is included only as shared context.

Hashed

Check: 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.

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 Korean technology and builders with Abu Dhabi's capital, institutions and market-access infrastructure. Within Hashed's wider mandate, that supports companies at the intersection of AI, crypto, consumer adoption and frontier technology that can travel between Asian and Middle Eastern ecosystems.

Audacity

Mumbai, India

TomCat Ventures

Mettmann, Germany

a16z Speedrun

San Francisco / Los Angeles, USA

AUM: $200M+ deployed across 250+ startups since 2023

Redacted Group

Yuki Naito

Tokyo

Brian D. Evans

Striking Markets