David Godwin

*stealth mode* mobile gaming studio

Living Realms is a creating a new entertainment experience to enable family and friends to share collaborative storytelling and roleplaying adventures together. We strive to create treasured experiences among family, friends and dragons.

Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space. We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.

Revolutionizing Manga, Webtoons, and Anime. At VoyceMe, we’re reimagining the digital entertainment landscape by creating a platform that connects millions of manga, webtoon, and anime fans worldwide. As a leading studio for original English manga in North America, we produce content with unmatched speed and efficiency. But we’re not stopping there—our goal is to build a one-stop ecosystem where fans can discover new stories, stream anime, interact with creators, purchase exclusive merchandise, and even create their own series. Our mission is fueled by innovation and inclusivity. We are ambitiously developing a proprietary GenAI tool with an ethically procured exclusive dataset to support creators by reducing burnout and empowering artists to monetize their work. This tool will help both established professionals and aspiring creators bring their manga to life with more creativity and ease. Backed by top investors like Redpoint Ventures, M13, and Bessemer Venture Partners, VoyceMe is on a journey to make manga and anime more accessible, engaging, and sustainable for everyone. Join us as we shape the future of this exciting industry.

Austin-based Captain Experiences makes booking outdoor sports trips quick and easy. Focused first on fishing, our mission is to unlock the outdoors for everyone, and we do this through our no-hassle online booking experience and our Damn Good Guides in the field. Whether it’s fly fishing Montana’s backcountry, chasing blue marlin in Hawaii, or stalking tailing redfish in our Texas homewaters, if you can dream it, you can do it in just a few quick clicks. Backed by leading investors including Andrew Chen at a16z, Goodwater, Not Boring, and Looking Glass, were proud to make our passion our profession.

Our founder Johnny Monsarrat co-created the $54B MMO game market, by founding Turbine (Lord of the Rings Online, Asherons Call), which Warner Bros. bought for $160M. Our new venture notes that AR walking games like Pokémon Go have high churn, because their "collecting" gameplay is boring. We evolve this into full Outdoor RPGs. Our 3 patents for outdoor adventure games greatly improve player retention and monetization. Advisors include the former PlayStation CEO, Niantic VP BusDev, and Lucasfilm COO. We rebooted the company in 2020. We have a test game now, Landing Party, on the Apple App Store https://apple.co/46TuVUF and Google Play, https://bit.ly/3QikMeP.

Player2Player seeks to enrich the lives of youth athletes and their communities through the shared love language of sports. Player2Player's high school student athletes act as Coaches for younger, aspiring athletes to provide one-on-one training and group clinics. We began in the Lake Travis area of Austin, Texas and have since expanded into Westlake, Dripping Springs, Cedar Park/Leander, Vandegrift, and Frisco! We will continue to grow over the coming year, adding new cities to our website and building a mobile application for easier booking. In 2018, the idea came to Founder Jennifer Wright while on a drive home through her neighborhood one night. She saw a high school-aged boy playing basketball with a much younger boy, showing him a better form to shoot the ball. and thought to herself how much sense that made – who better to help young kids learn a sport than the older kids they already look up to playing the sport at a high school level. Having multiple children who are student-athletes herself, Jennifer is all too aware that high schoolers are so overwhelmed with the demands of their schedules – with school, practice, and games – that they just aren’t able to maintain a regular job, no matter how much they (or their parents) want one, without sacrificing the sport they love. Player2Player provides a meaningful employment opportunity for these high schoolers, on a schedule they set for themselves. It also got Jennifer thinking about all the parents out there who would love to have a flexible, fun, productive activity for their little tikes. Player2Player provides a convenient and affordable alternative to hiring private professional coaches or enrolling in endless development camps and clinics. For the middle school girl trying to prepare for her first high school soccer try-out next year or for the high-energy little boy who isn’t quite sure which sport will capture his full attention yet; Player2Player is the perfect training solution.

StartPlaying.Games is an online events platform creating communities through play. We connect professional game masters to tabletop role-players looking for their next adventure. Since 2020, StartPlaying.Games has become a solution for online conventions and remote team-building events. With dozens of games happening every day, game night never has to be canceled. Find your next adventure at StartPlaying.Games

ATX Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on leading Seed, Series A, and early-stage software investments across the US. The firm invests in disruptive and emerging B2B software, APIs, applications, frontier tech, and marketplaces across a number of industries including Supply Chain, FinTech, InsurTech, and Future of Work. ATX also opportunistically invests into different stages, investment structures, and profiles outside of our early stage fund vehicles. ATX Venture Partners gives founders what they need most: access to the tools and talent from industry experts with hands-on support that sets the stage for success. Our limited partners include a myriad of successful entrepreneurs, executives, institutions, and family offices. We combine the generational wisdom and experience of today’s industry operators with the best disruption and enabling technology operators of tomorrow.

FantasySalesTeam was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 and is now Microsoft Dynamics Gamification.

*stealth mode* mobile gaming studio

Living Realms is a creating a new entertainment experience to enable family and friends to share collaborative storytelling and roleplaying adventures together. We strive to create treasured experiences among family, friends and dragons.

Loft builds the space infrastructure that lets any company, government or institution harness the benefits of space. We have developed a standardized satellite platform that can be configured to fly any customer mission. With our own hardware and software abstraction layers on top of a commodity satellite bus, our platform is truly turnkey and plug-and-play.

Revolutionizing Manga, Webtoons, and Anime. At VoyceMe, we’re reimagining the digital entertainment landscape by creating a platform that connects millions of manga, webtoon, and anime fans worldwide. As a leading studio for original English manga in North America, we produce content with unmatched speed and efficiency. But we’re not stopping there—our goal is to build a one-stop ecosystem where fans can discover new stories, stream anime, interact with creators, purchase exclusive merchandise, and even create their own series. Our mission is fueled by innovation and inclusivity. We are ambitiously developing a proprietary GenAI tool with an ethically procured exclusive dataset to support creators by reducing burnout and empowering artists to monetize their work. This tool will help both established professionals and aspiring creators bring their manga to life with more creativity and ease. Backed by top investors like Redpoint Ventures, M13, and Bessemer Venture Partners, VoyceMe is on a journey to make manga and anime more accessible, engaging, and sustainable for everyone. Join us as we shape the future of this exciting industry.

Austin-based Captain Experiences makes booking outdoor sports trips quick and easy. Focused first on fishing, our mission is to unlock the outdoors for everyone, and we do this through our no-hassle online booking experience and our Damn Good Guides in the field. Whether it’s fly fishing Montana’s backcountry, chasing blue marlin in Hawaii, or stalking tailing redfish in our Texas homewaters, if you can dream it, you can do it in just a few quick clicks. Backed by leading investors including Andrew Chen at a16z, Goodwater, Not Boring, and Looking Glass, were proud to make our passion our profession.