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Angel Investor
Apr 2022
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.
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2023
Senior Principal II, The Blockchain and AI Fund
Jul 2023
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000.
• Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25)
• Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25)
• Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24)
• Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25)
• Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24)
• Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24)
• Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22)
• #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23)
• Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24)
• Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22)
• Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies
• 40+ full-time VC investors
• Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts.
Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
2022
Angel Investor
Apr 2022
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.
2020
Venture Advisor
May 2020
Blue Ivy Ventures is an Alumni Ventures venture capital fund for alumni of Yale that invests in companies with a Yale connection.
Meet the team:
David Shapiro, Managing Partner
Yevgeny Gelfand, Partner
Ryan Musto, Senior Associate
We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture firm for individual investors. Founded in 2014, we are the venture investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions.
Follow Blue Ivy Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.
We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the college.
Offers of securities are made only to eligible investors through formal offering documents, which describe the risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio company investments shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in the case of follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
2018
Partnership Manager (First Coin Capital - Acquired by Galaxy Digital)
Jun 2018
Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. Our digital assets platform offers institutional access to trading, advisory, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. In addition, we invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing, meeting the growing demand for scalable energy and compute solutions in the U.S. The company is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
Additional information about Galaxys businesses and products is available on www.galaxy.com
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