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Investor Series A
Feb 2023
Jadu AR Inc. is an augmented reality company building immersive mobile games powered by custom technology that makes high-fidelity spatial gameplay possible on everyday devices.
We’ve released two titles: Jadu: Fight in AR, a real-time PvP game, and PANIC AR, a story-driven wave shooter currently in development. PANIC features hundreds of simulated enemies, 3D projectiles, and advanced post-processing effects, pushing mobile hardware to new limits.
Our generative authoring tools and real-world scene understanding system enable character-driven gameplay that adapts to player actions and physical context. With over 400,000 installs and an average rating of 4.9 stars, both games have been met with excitement from players around the world.
Founded in 2019, Jadu started with a fascination for virtual characters colliding with real spaces. Our early work in AR-enabled Web3 assets drove over $30M in secondary trading and included collaborations with cultural icons like Elton John, GRIMES, Lewis Hamilton, Lil Nas X, Michael Bay, Serena Williams, and Snoop Dogg.
We’ve raised from investors including Bain Capital, General Catalyst, LG Tech Ventures, and Com2Us.
Investor series C
Jul 2022
Double Jump Tokyo is the leading startup in Japan that specializes in developing blockchain games. Our international team and group of engineers bring expertise in gaming, finance, blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency. Double Jump Tokyo is the leader in Japan for cumulative NFT transaction volumes.
Seed and Series A Investor
May 2022
Inworld AI is a realtime AI model and infrastructure company, and the leading consumer AI infrastructure platform. Inworld provides industry-leading realtime generative models, including the world’s #1-ranked voice AI models, intelligent model routing and optimization, and an Agent Runtime, enabling developers to build and deploy interactive AI applications to millions of concurrent users.
Inworld primarily serves use cases where realtime interaction and sophisticated agent capabilities are critical, such as companion apps, developer assistants, and agents for learning & education, health & wellness, interactive media and enterprise.
At its core, Inworld is a product-oriented research lab of top AI researchers and engineers. The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow, the conversational AI platform acquired by Google. Inworld has raised $125M+ from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford, Microsoft M12, Meta, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT, LG Tech Ventures, and Bitkraft among others.
Seed Investor
Apr 2022
were the place where people build cool stuff. backed by a16z + yc.
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Seed Investor
Feb 2022
At Toonsutra, we are dedicated to revolutionizing the way you enjoy comics. We have created a groundbreaking platform that brings together a community of passionate readers and talented creators. Immerse yourself in a captivating world of webcomics, where art and storytelling combine to deliver an unparalleled reading experience. Join us as we push the boundaries of digital comics, unlocking the full potential of your comic reading journey. Get ready to embark on an extraordinary adventure with Toonsutra, where innovation meets your love for comics.
Download now on the Google Play Store and IOS App store → https://toonsutra.onelink.me/EsM3/lnkdn
Seed Investor
Jan 2022
Legends of Learning offers a uniquely engaging platform with over 2,000 curriculum-aligned math and science games for K-8 students. Access features like assignments, video lessons, assessments, quizzes, instructional games, simulations, and the immersive Awakening world—all available in English and Spanish. Support every student’s learning journey with this award-winning platform.
Seed Investor
Jan 2022
Founded by John Legend and a group of reputable media technologists and futurists, we are a company crazy about bringing people together, bringing smiles to life and bringing the best out of people.
We are building infrastructure and services for the creator economy to own the future of self expression and creativity. By making new technologies easy to use, we hope that everyone’s talent has equal opportunity.
Seed Investor
Jan 2022
Metatheory Inc. is a technology-driven entertainment company. With a focus on blockchain, we build games, interactive multi-platform stories, and virtual world experiences imagined across innovative story franchise IPs. We are a remote-first dynamic team of builders, developers, and entrepreneurs that include key founding members from Twitch, as well as Emmy and Peabody Award winning producers and storytellers.
Our flagship IP is DuskBreakers, an eccentric, interactive sci-fi saga set in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious alien ship (The Dusk) becomes a beacon of hope for humanity. The franchise spans games, video, NFTs, and other media formats.
Our first project, DuskBreakers, can be found at duskbreakers.gg, twitter.com/DuskBreakers, and discord.gg/duskbreakers. Our company website is metatheory.gg
Investor
Aug 2018
ZEG has built artificial reality for eCommerce sellers to get stunning product imagery without shipping the product to a studio. You can now build big brand like photos completely online.
Investor
Jan 2017
Founded in 2015 by former Boston University athletes, Rachel Geicke and Mariana Ferreira, Snow Monkey is on a mission to reinvent the way we eat, one pint of "ice cream" at a time.
Snow Monkey is a vegan, paleo, high-protein ice cream alternative churned from only superfoods, fruits, and seeds, making it the perfect anytime treat whether it be for breakfast, fuel or indulgence. It's free from all 8 major allergens and packs in 21g of plant-based protein per pint, but never skimps out on flavor or deliciousness. All of our ingredients are 100% plant-based and created by Mother Nature herself, allowing each ingredient to play a distinct role in fueling the body with the nutrients it needs to lead a healthy, active life.
See for yourself how we're reinventing ice cream: https://youtu.be/4Fho31WYqbY
www.Snow-Monkey.com | @EatSnowMonkey | #EatNoEvil
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Dec 2016
Anuva is creating the world’s most diverse Genomic Bio/Data Bank to help uncover novel biological pathways for drug discovery.
Anuva is a translational research company that is creating the most diverse Genomic Bio/Data Bank of Asian Populations, which is being utilized for research & development within the pharma industry. Our cohorts and biorepository allow for follow-on clinical and translational studies, which greatly empower drug development opportunities.
Investor
Oct 2015
WaveOptics (Snap Inc) delivering the world’s best optical engines for AR eyewear. Changing how you see the world.
We research, design and develop optical engines for augmented reality smartglasses and headsets. We deliver superior optical performance for affordable mass manufacture.
Optical engines comprise a waveguide and projector. Our waveguide models range from the widest field of view through to the lightest and thinnest available on the market. The waveguides are paired with projectors for maximum design flexibility and image quality and these are DMD, LCoS or MicroLED based.
Proudly part of Snap Inc. WaveOptics is a wholly owned, independent subsidiary of Snap. We continue to support our external customers.
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Apr 2015
A research-led technology company developing state-of-the-art machine-learning based approaches for visual processing on web, desktop and mobile.
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2023
Investor Series A
Feb 2023
Jadu AR Inc. is an augmented reality company building immersive mobile games powered by custom technology that makes high-fidelity spatial gameplay possible on everyday devices.
We’ve released two titles: Jadu: Fight in AR, a real-time PvP game, and PANIC AR, a story-driven wave shooter currently in development. PANIC features hundreds of simulated enemies, 3D projectiles, and advanced post-processing effects, pushing mobile hardware to new limits.
Our generative authoring tools and real-world scene understanding system enable character-driven gameplay that adapts to player actions and physical context. With over 400,000 installs and an average rating of 4.9 stars, both games have been met with excitement from players around the world.
Founded in 2019, Jadu started with a fascination for virtual characters colliding with real spaces. Our early work in AR-enabled Web3 assets drove over $30M in secondary trading and included collaborations with cultural icons like Elton John, GRIMES, Lewis Hamilton, Lil Nas X, Michael Bay, Serena Williams, and Snoop Dogg.
We’ve raised from investors including Bain Capital, General Catalyst, LG Tech Ventures, and Com2Us.
2022
Investor series C
Jul 2022
Double Jump Tokyo is the leading startup in Japan that specializes in developing blockchain games. Our international team and group of engineers bring expertise in gaming, finance, blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency. Double Jump Tokyo is the leader in Japan for cumulative NFT transaction volumes.
Seed and Series A Investor
May 2022
Inworld AI is a realtime AI model and infrastructure company, and the leading consumer AI infrastructure platform. Inworld provides industry-leading realtime generative models, including the world’s #1-ranked voice AI models, intelligent model routing and optimization, and an Agent Runtime, enabling developers to build and deploy interactive AI applications to millions of concurrent users.
Inworld primarily serves use cases where realtime interaction and sophisticated agent capabilities are critical, such as companion apps, developer assistants, and agents for learning & education, health & wellness, interactive media and enterprise.
At its core, Inworld is a product-oriented research lab of top AI researchers and engineers. The founding team led product for LLMs at DeepMind and built Dialogflow, the conversational AI platform acquired by Google. Inworld has raised $125M+ from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, CRV, Stanford, Microsoft M12, Meta, Intel Capital, Samsung NEXT, LG Tech Ventures, and Bitkraft among others.
Seed Investor
Apr 2022
were the place where people build cool stuff. backed by a16z + yc.
nights & weekends s5 begins june 15.
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