Griffin Gaming Partners

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2019 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The firm specializes in the gaming industry, making investments across a diverse range of sectors, including content creation, software infrastructure, social platforms, and gaming-related web3 companies. With a focus on the evolving gaming ecosystem, Griffin Gaming Partners aims to support innovative projects that enhance the gaming experience and drive industry growth. As a Registered Investment Adviser, the firm is dedicated to fostering advancements in the gaming landscape.

Tiago Teixeira Correia

Venture Partner

Chris Hollenbeck

CFO

Jim Huntley

Venture Partner

Peter Levin

Managing Director

Tammy McDonald

Venture Partner

Seth Nutt

Investor

Anthony Palma

Principal

Pierre Planche

Partner

Nick Tuosto

Managing Director and Co-Founder

James Wing

Principal

Frankie Zhu

Partner

Past deals in Entertainment

ForthStar

Seed Round in 2024
ForthStar is a gaming company focused on developing a variety of mobile games that appeal to a broad audience. The company aims to create engaging free-to-play titles that foster creative thinking and cultural collaboration among players. By prioritizing mass appeal, ForthStar seeks to enhance the overall gaming experience for its users, making it accessible and enjoyable for a diverse range of players.

Neon Media

Series A in 2023
Neon Media LLC is a production company based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in the development and design of games and entertainment software. Incorporated in 2020, it focuses on transmedia and virtual production, offering gaming services tailored for the film and television industry. Neon Media produces real-time sets for virtual productions and creates photorealistic, physically-based rendered (PBR) scenes using its proprietary game engine. This enables collaboration among creators in various fields, including television, film, and comics, allowing clients to produce television series, high-budget special effects movies, and independent animations. As of September 2020, Neon Media operates as a subsidiary of The 4D Factory LLC.

Million Victories

Series A in 2023
Million Victories SAS is an independent game studio established in July 2017 and located in Villeurbanne, France. The company specializes in designing and developing interactive mobile games, with a focus on creating challenging and dynamic multiplayer online games. Its flagship product, Million Lords, is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game (MMORTS) that offers an immersive gaming experience for users. Currently, the game is available in early access in select countries, showcasing the studio's commitment to delivering competitive and engaging gameplay for mobile users.

Hardball Games

Seed Round in 2023
Hardball Games create interactive entertainment that allows people to interact in novel and satisfying ways. Hardball games are cross-play, multiplatform, and multiplayer.

Nexus

Series A in 2023
Nexus serves as a platform for live service games and the content creators who play them.

Players' Lounge

Series A in 2022
Players' Lounge Inc., operating as Players' Lounge Online, is a social gaming platform that allows casual gamers to compete for cash and prizes. Founded in 2016 and based in New Castle, Delaware, it provides an online environment where users can find opponents willing to engage in friendly wagers over popular video games or participate in organized tournaments. The platform caters to the vast majority of gamers who aspire to earn money through gaming, even if only a small fraction succeed in becoming professional players. By facilitating instant e-sports competitions, Players' Lounge aims to democratize the opportunity for all gamers to monetize their skills and enjoy competitive play.

Kryptomon

Series A in 2022
Kryptomon is an NFT Play-and-Earn blockchain game, where Pokémon meets Tamagotchi and CryptoKitties. Breed, Train and Fight with your NFT Kryptomon. It's a new world where trainers can live a new adventure on Blockchain. Set in the Kryptomon metaverse, community members play as ‘Trainers’ of their own individual monsters — Kryptomons — each of which is a completely unique digital asset connected to an NFT. Each has a unique but mutable genetic code made up of 38 randomised parameters that determine all of the aspects — physical and behavioral — of the creature. This not only ensures that each Kryptomon is unique but also brings to life each Kryptomon as a digital companion in the Kryptomon metaverse. They are capable of learning, falling sick, getting hungry, and protecting their trainers when out on an adventure in the physical world. In turn, trainers will have to care for, feed, and train their Kryptomon partners in order to grow and prepare for the battles ahead. Kryptomon creates the next step in the evolution of crypto-gaming by using advanced blockchain technologies, digital genetics, and location-based technologies. So what are you waiting for? Play and participate in the Kryptomon league to become the Kryptomon Metaverse Champion!

Palm NFT Studio

Series B in 2021
Palm NFT Studio is a collective of entertainment, technology, cryptoart and art industry leaders set up to on-ramp artists, creators and rights owners who want to establish NFT marketplaces and next-generation creative works on Palm.

Neon Media

Venture Round in 2021
Neon Media LLC is a production company based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in the development and design of games and entertainment software. Incorporated in 2020, it focuses on transmedia and virtual production, offering gaming services tailored for the film and television industry. Neon Media produces real-time sets for virtual productions and creates photorealistic, physically-based rendered (PBR) scenes using its proprietary game engine. This enables collaboration among creators in various fields, including television, film, and comics, allowing clients to produce television series, high-budget special effects movies, and independent animations. As of September 2020, Neon Media operates as a subsidiary of The 4D Factory LLC.

Funzy

Seed Round in 2020
Funzy is a mobile game development studio intended to create casual games. The company designs mobile and computer-based games with the help of a team of professional developers, animators, artists, narrative designers and more, providing the users with a fun way to stay engaged and pass time.

Skillz

Series E in 2020
Skillz is a mobile gaming platform dedicated to fostering competition through engaging and fair gameplay. By enabling developers to create and monetize competitive games, Skillz has positioned itself as a leader in the mobile gaming industry. The platform hosts billions of casual gaming tournaments, attracting millions of players globally. Notable games available on Skillz include Dominoes Gold, Blackout Bingo, 21 Blitz, and Solitaire Cube. The company operates primarily through its Skillz segment, which focuses on eSports and multiplayer competition, while also encompassing the Aarki segment. Skillz generates most of its revenue from the United States, with additional contributions from markets such as Israel, China, and Malta. The company has received recognition for its commitment to diversity and innovation in technology, being named among the Best Companies for Women to Advance and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.
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