Shima Capital 3XP Breakfast LA #TechWeek
Brush off your hangover with a freshly brewed cup of coffee and filling pastries with your frens at Shima Capital ☕ 🥐
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Midnight is building the Evergreen, the first publishing platform that operates as a deconstructed, composable MMORPG, delivering an immersive experience to players across games of all types and genres. https://www.midnight.io/
Near Foundation is a non-profit focused on increasing the adoption and development of the NEAR Protocol and its ecosystem. NEAR protocol, a high-performance blockchain designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable, has been recognized for its technical capabilities and attracted investment from leading investors such as a16z, Coinbase Ventures, Multi Coin Capital, and Hashed. It also manages an ecosystem fund of $800 million to enhance the NEAR ecosystem. NEAR has recently gained even more attention for its innovative blockchain operating system (BOS) and account abstraction features. https://near.org/
Gomble is a seasoned game development studio specializing in the casual game genre, leveraging 111% group’s exceptional records and expertise with cumulative > 100M users, and $200M+ in revenue through 150+ games. The team includes executives from 111% and a number of lead developers and designers who developed most of the best-hit games such as Random Dice. It also consists of experienced professionals who have worked in various industries such as gaming, blockchain, and AI at major companies like Google, Kakao, etc. Gomble’s objective is to bring 2 billion global casual game users into the web3 market, attracted investment from strategic investors such as BinanceLabs, Shima Capital, Spartan Group, Animoca Brands, Polygon ventures, etc.
Press Start Capital 👉🎮🧢 is a pre-seed focused fund investing in the “full stack” of Web3 Entertainment: gaming, creator, consumer, and infra. We're led by experienced investors and builders with exits (ex-Binance/CoinMarketCap, Coinbase, DivX, Airbnb). Our pre-accelerator cohorts provide builders with the first check and mentorship from veteran builders (founders of Twitch, Axie, Stripe, Origin Protocol, Monad, etc.), and graduate into YC, a16z, Alliance DAO. https://pressstart.capital/
CRIT Ventures is a pre-seed/seed fund comitted to advancing the Web3 ecosystem. Our unique and close-knit relationship with Com2uS Group, a global leader in gaming, entertainment, and music, significantly enhances our ability to provide immense value-add to our portfolio companies. At CRIT Ventures, we combine our passion for Web3, robust capital support, and a wealth of industry insights to drive transformative success in the digital realm. XPLA is the next generation of Web3 mainnet, developed with gamers at the core of its design. Based on the idea of "Explore and Play", XPLA is the newest innovation in the Web3 gaming space, using COSMOS SDK for optimization in partnerships with Animoca Brands, Xterio, YGG, Cosmostation, and Everstake. This new infrastructure serves as the bridge between Web2 and Web3 services and will feature games, art, music, and Dapps based on community-driven feedback from users. XPLA places heavy emphasis on User Experience and accessibility to craft the standard in game-centric Web3 services, opening up limitless possibilities for blockchain gaming. https://www.crit.vc/
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