MARCUS P.

Head of Games Publishing | Senior Games Leader | Ex‑Engineering & QA Leader (Xbox, EA, Unity)

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025
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Oct 2025
Cowboy Space Corporation is building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence. Using an integrated system of satellites and rockets, we will send high-performance compute and optical data transmission to Low Earth Orbit. Our constellation of satellites, Stampede, will harness abundant solar power to run on-orbit GPU data centers. With each launch, Stampede grows the power and compute capacity for humanity. Earths energy grid cant run at the pace of AI. We can. AI is driving the largest infrastructure buildout in recent history, and the power grid on planet Earth cant keep pace. In major US markets, average grid connection lead times for new data centers can run 5-7 years or more. Meanwhile, AI demand is flat-out outgrowing Earths pastures. Full-Stack Architecture: Traditional architecture treats the rocket as a workhorse and the satellite as freight. In our system, the rockets upper stage is the satellite itself. Its a 1-megawatt data center with active thermal management and integrated compute, designed as one unified vehicle from the ground up. We trim the fat on redundant structure and avionics, dedicating every possible kilogram of compute to Low Earth Orbit. By owning our manufacturing and dedicated launch sites, we vertically integrate core technologies that enable deploying compute at scale. We’ve raised a $275M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Index Ventures, with participation from new investors IVP, Blossom Capital, and SAIC, alongside existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Construct Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Interlagos and Baiju Bhatt.
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Jul 2024
Social Tip is on a mission to help brands connect more authentically online through rewarding their customers with cash. We help turn a brand’s customers into their influencers. This is good old-fashioned word of mouth marketing but amplified for the digital age and scalable through our innovative technology. The conventional ways of marketing are becoming less and less effective. 70% of people no longer trust adverts, Gen Z are allergic to anything that looks or feels like marketing, and it is increasingly difficult for brands to connect authentically on fragmented online platforms. In short, the old ways of marketing are broken. The answer is Social Tip. We build hype and buzz whilst putting money back into the pockets of everyday people for posting online about the things they love. This is the future, and it just needs a platform.
Seed Investor
Mar 2021
The all-in-one workspace for self-releasing artists and disruptive record labels. Protect, distribute and monetize your music. Get full insights on reach, performance and earnings.
early stageMusicians
Seed Investor
Sep 2014
"Making games we love; with people we love; for people to love."​ From day 1 this has been the number one rule at Dlala, and whilst things have changed since the days in the garage that one rule has remained true. We take the work we create very seriously, however that doesn’t mean we have to take ourselves too seriously. Dlala Studios was founded in 2012 by two friends who had previously worked as programmers together at Jagex and Bossa Studios. Within the first 6 months of forming the studio, we released a Windows 8 launch title, were featured on the front cover of Develop Magazine (“Two Guys, One Game, No Cash”) and moved into Microsoft Games Studios Soho office to be their first ever internally incubated studio. Over the next 5 years the team grew from 2 guys in a garage to 16 wonderful people in a studio in Essex, with regular collaborators across the globe. We have spent the last five years focused on creativity, technical knowledge and producing high quality passion-driven work. It’s this drive that has seen us not only creating original IP but working with established IP and supporting some of the biggest companies across the globe. We’ve developed and shipped titles on Microsoft, Sony, Google, Apple and Linux platforms as well as Web Based applications and games.
early stageComputer Games
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2025
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Oct 2025
Cowboy Space Corporation is building a power grid in outer space for artificial intelligence. Using an integrated system of satellites and rockets, we will send high-performance compute and optical data transmission to Low Earth Orbit. Our constellation of satellites, Stampede, will harness abundant solar power to run on-orbit GPU data centers. With each launch, Stampede grows the power and compute capacity for humanity. Earths energy grid cant run at the pace of AI. We can. AI is driving the largest infrastructure buildout in recent history, and the power grid on planet Earth cant keep pace. In major US markets, average grid connection lead times for new data centers can run 5-7 years or more. Meanwhile, AI demand is flat-out outgrowing Earths pastures. Full-Stack Architecture: Traditional architecture treats the rocket as a workhorse and the satellite as freight. In our system, the rockets upper stage is the satellite itself. Its a 1-megawatt data center with active thermal management and integrated compute, designed as one unified vehicle from the ground up. We trim the fat on redundant structure and avionics, dedicating every possible kilogram of compute to Low Earth Orbit. By owning our manufacturing and dedicated launch sites, we vertically integrate core technologies that enable deploying compute at scale. We’ve raised a $275M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Index Ventures, with participation from new investors IVP, Blossom Capital, and SAIC, alongside existing investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Construct Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Interlagos and Baiju Bhatt.
2024
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Jul 2024
Social Tip is on a mission to help brands connect more authentically online through rewarding their customers with cash. We help turn a brand’s customers into their influencers. This is good old-fashioned word of mouth marketing but amplified for the digital age and scalable through our innovative technology. The conventional ways of marketing are becoming less and less effective. 70% of people no longer trust adverts, Gen Z are allergic to anything that looks or feels like marketing, and it is increasingly difficult for brands to connect authentically on fragmented online platforms. In short, the old ways of marketing are broken. The answer is Social Tip. We build hype and buzz whilst putting money back into the pockets of everyday people for posting online about the things they love. This is the future, and it just needs a platform.
Founder
Mar 2024
A new type of game studio - Bringing games to life that havent been thought of yet, in inspiring ways by inspiring people.
early stageComputer Games
2021
Seed Investor
Mar 2021
The all-in-one workspace for self-releasing artists and disruptive record labels. Protect, distribute and monetize your music. Get full insights on reach, performance and earnings.
early stageMusicians
2016
Principal Software Engineering Manager - Xbox Game Studios
Jun 2016
Every company has a mission. Whats ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesnt diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
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