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The 205x return you might have missed

Let’s play a game.

On April 19th, 2020, amid a global pandemic, a VC could have cashed in on a 205x return.

Hint: it wasn’t liked by “VCs Congratulating themselves” on Twitter.

Congrats, Ryan Moore (@rm_acc)

Background

Originally from Philly, Ryan spent time in SF before moving back East in 1999 to work out of Softbank’s Boston office. A year later, he was offered a partnership role at a new fund and thus began his investing career. The rest is history.

His approach to investing in new companies is simple: invest in the underdogs.

I have to love the market they’re operating in. I have to believe that they’ll be successful, whether they’re capitalized or not. I don’t care about pedigree. I care about tenacity and character. If I’m sitting across from someone, I’ll get into their background a little bit to find something that galvanizes them to me as a person. They have to have some story of adversity, because they’re in for it. Their ability to cope defines their success as an entrepreneur, because they’re always starting out as the underdog. I love the underdog.”

Ryan is now founder & Partner of Accomplice, a seed-led venture firm that embraces risk. Accomplice has been a part of the origin story of AngelList, Carbon Black, and Hopper (and many more noteable co’s). They are one of the most active early stage firms in New England and it’s specialties are across cybersecurity, eSports, data analytics, emerging hardware platforms and marketplaces.

Given his track record of winning, let’s take a look at a few of Accomplice’s Latest investments:

Angel/Seed:

Early Stage:

Growth/Late Stage:

Once again, congrats, Ryan. Excited to watch your next move.

Looking to get into the mix? Let’s take a look at the next generation of gaming companies on the rise.

Early stage, recently funded seed companies that we’re watching:

(note: these are not backed by Ryan Moore or Accomplice).

Multiverseweb-based social game and game creation platform.

HQ: Boston, MA

Founders: Hisham Bedri, Sara Alfageeh, Thariq Shihipar

Latest Funding: $150k Seed Round announced on March 16th, 2020.

Surge Signal: 1,001% monthly visits growth

Why we like it: YC alum that is hoping to completely reimagine the tabletop RPG experience. Other features include individual creators with their marketplace development. This would allow designers, writers, artists etc. to have new ways of interacting with their audiences.

Dream Games: mobile gaming company based in Istanbul.

HQ: Istanbul, Turkey

Founders: Eren Sengul, Hakan Saglam, Ikbal Namli, Serdar Yilmaz, Soner Aydemir

Latest Funding: $7.5M Seed Round announced on November 20th, 2019.

Surge Signal: 391% monthly visits growth

Why we like it: Founded by ex Peak Game developers, Dream Games is capitalizing on the growing game developer ecosystem in Turkey. They are focused on creating a low volume of high quality games, in a bet that they’ll win over loyal players vs. short term users.

Bunch: the first app that lets you play your favorite games with friends over video chat.

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Founders: Jason Liang, Selcuk Atli

Latest Funding: $3.9M Seed Round announced on November 20th 2019.

Surge signal: 573% monthly visits growth

Why we like it: they’re on a mission to be the Xbox Live of mobile games, with notable heavyweight investors like Tencent Holdings, Supercell and Riot Games (amongst others) to help fuel growth.

That’s all for now, stay tuned for next week’s exclusive.

Data Sources: Crunchbase, SimilarWeb

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Deal of the Month: Lean and Mean Notion Closes $50mm at a $2bn post-money

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