James Zhang

Founder & CEO @Concept Labs

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 11 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022
VC🌍 United States
11
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3
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Portfolio

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Investor and Advisor
Aug 2022
Xterio is a global cross-platform play-and-earn developer and publisher working on deeply engaging gaming worlds enhanced by digital ownership that will connect millions of people across the globe. Our focus is to develop web3 native universes that will be expanded across all media and platforms. Our teams and studios are located globally in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Singapore. The Xterio platform is designed and developed by the Xterio Foundation, a Swiss not-for-profit foundation based in Zug. The Xterio Foundations purpose is to develop and maintain the functionality of the Xterio platform and its tokens in a manner that best serves the interest of the token holders. We are bridging the gap between free-to-play gaming and web3 by delivering the core gaming experiences that provide both fun and ownership.
early stageEntertainment
Investor and Advisor
2021
Galxe is the leading platform for building web3 community. With over 12 million users, Galxe has propelled the growth of Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, and more than 3700 partners with reward-based loyalty programs. Start your campaign today at galxe.com!
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2020
The SHRAPNEL team is seeking bright minds from every culture, discipline, and background to join us on a new creative endeavor. We’re a mission-focused team with industry roots in world-class game development, studio building, and platform creation. Our goal is empowering the world to share in playful collaboration at the intersection of gaming, creation, and true ownership.
early stageComputer Games
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2020
Pagoda is a technology services firm dedicated to developing core components for the NEAR Ecosystem. We believe that re-inventing how software is made and distributed is our greatest opportunity to open economic access to those who are not fully integrated into the global economy. Our products empower people to find opportunity, invent new experiences, and collaborate. Lets build an Open Web world. A world where people control their assets, data, and power of governance.
Investor and Advisor
Feb 2020
Playbook is a beautiful, organized home base for all creative work. For teams, Playbook makes it easy to share, and collaborate on visual projects. For freelancers, Playbook makes collaborating with clients and sharing their work with the world seamless. Playbook runs on advanced and intelligent technology. It automatically imports, tags, categorizes your entire media library, in minutes.
Investor and Advisory Board Member
Mar 2018
Keiretsu Capital was established with the express mission of fostering closer ties between Keiretsu Forum angels, the institutional investor community and Keiretsu Forum portfolio companies. Keiretsu Capital provides its investors access to proprietary deal flow by investing alongside the angels, providing additional capital to complete rounds and acting to source follow on capital where appropriate. Keiretsu Capital works to increase the value of investments undertaken by Keiretsu Forum members by assisting in the successful presentation of the portfolio companies to investors including syndicate partners, venture capitalists, corporate investors, and the public markets. Keiretsu Capital aims to provide significant capital appreciation through investment in high quality emerging companies that have been funded by the world’s largest angel investor network, Keiretsu Forum, as well as other top tier angel groups. Comprised of serious investors, accomplished business leaders and serial entrepreneurs, our mission is to accelerate technology company success and pursue the high upside value potential in these dynamic investment opportunities while promoting the sharing of risk inherent in any early stage venture. We recognizes the crucial and active role that experienced angel investors can play in nurturing emerging companies, and draws upon the significant knowledge and expertise of our investors, Keiretsu Forum members and Keiretsu Capital managers to actively guide and support portfolio companies. We seek opportunities in which a strong management team is in place to guide development of the core technology and the organization needed to realize the company’s market potential. Further, we will continue to seek Keiretsu Members that bring geographic diversity to our membership to enhance the probability of identifying investment opportunities and building a broad base of contacts and functional and technical expertise. www.keiretsucapital.com
Investor
2018
Multiverses ecosystem enables more people to build A.I. powered economies and apps, regardless of location, class, or banked status.
Investor
2018
Codex Protocol is a decentralized title registry for the $2 Trillion Art & Collectibles asset class. Supported by a large industry consortium, The Codex stores ownership and provenance while ensuring privacy for collectors. At launch, several initial DApps will allow collectors to more easily find what they want, buy at auctions, and ensure authenticity. The Codex is the first step to achieving a larger and more accessible art and collectibles market. Join the conversation in our telegramchannel for realtime updates https://t.me/codexprotocol
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2016
1World Online is a Silicon Valley and Europe based company providing Consumer Intelligence Platform. It serves the entire web publishing enterprise. Websites will enjoy higher metrics of engagement; business teams will be able to better understand, profile, and monetize the audience; editors and journalists gain access to timely news content and can better target their stories, improving reader relationships.
Experience · 16 entries
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Investments (11)
Founder (3)
2022
Investor and Advisor
Aug 2022
Xterio is a global cross-platform play-and-earn developer and publisher working on deeply engaging gaming worlds enhanced by digital ownership that will connect millions of people across the globe. Our focus is to develop web3 native universes that will be expanded across all media and platforms. Our teams and studios are located globally in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Singapore. The Xterio platform is designed and developed by the Xterio Foundation, a Swiss not-for-profit foundation based in Zug. The Xterio Foundations purpose is to develop and maintain the functionality of the Xterio platform and its tokens in a manner that best serves the interest of the token holders. We are bridging the gap between free-to-play gaming and web3 by delivering the core gaming experiences that provide both fun and ownership.
early stageEntertainment
2021
Advisor
Oct 2021
Anthos, founded in 2007, invests in emerging consumer and technology companies that drive innovation and shape the future. Anthos provides strategic and operational support to entrepreneurs, enabling its portfolio companies to achieve their full potential and become industry leaders.
Investor and Advisor
2021
Galxe is the leading platform for building web3 community. With over 12 million users, Galxe has propelled the growth of Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, and more than 3700 partners with reward-based loyalty programs. Start your campaign today at galxe.com!
2020
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2020
The SHRAPNEL team is seeking bright minds from every culture, discipline, and background to join us on a new creative endeavor. We’re a mission-focused team with industry roots in world-class game development, studio building, and platform creation. Our goal is empowering the world to share in playful collaboration at the intersection of gaming, creation, and true ownership.
early stageComputer Games
Investor and Advisor
Mar 2020
Pagoda is a technology services firm dedicated to developing core components for the NEAR Ecosystem. We believe that re-inventing how software is made and distributed is our greatest opportunity to open economic access to those who are not fully integrated into the global economy. Our products empower people to find opportunity, invent new experiences, and collaborate. Lets build an Open Web world. A world where people control their assets, data, and power of governance.
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