Details
Gabby Dizon is a Co-Founder at Yield Guild Games, Partner at LongHash Ventures, and CEO at Altitude Games, a Manila-based studio that specializes in creating original, free-to-play mobile games. With over 15 years of experience in the game industry in Southeast Asia, Gabby helped pioneer the Philippine game industry as part of the team that released the first Filipino-made game in 2003. He has shipped 20+ games on mobile and PC platforms and is currently most excited about the various applications of blockchain for the game industry. Gabby is a founding member and former president of the Game Developers Association of the Philippines (GDAP) and former coordinator of the IGDA Manila chapter. His specialties include cryptogames, blockchain, game industry, entrepreneurship, business development, Southeast Asia, and mobile.
Work Experience
Investment Overview
Rounds in the past year
0
Total rounds
27
Portfolio Numbers
27
Lead Investment
0
Relevance Person
Beryl Li
Beryl Li is a co-founder of Yield Guild Games (YGG), the world’s first and biggest decentralized network of gaming guilds focused on blockchain games and web3 education. YGG is committed to providing opportunities for its members to achieve success in the open Metaverse. Beryl’s work at YGG has earned her a place on J.P. Morgan Private Bank's Top 100 list of Women-Powered Businesses in the Asia-Pacific and Tatler Asia’s Generation T List of 2022. She is also part of the World Economic Forum’s inaugural cohort of Technology Pioneers and Unicorns. As a fintech entrepreneur, Beryl co-founded CapchainX, an asset tokenization platform that was acquired by SMKG in 2019, and was on the founding team at Coins.ph, a leading crypto exchange in the Philippines that was acquired by Gojek in 2019. She also has vast experience working with financial institutions such as BlackRock London and UnionBank of the Philippines, as well as government agencies, such as the Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications (DICT). Beryl holds a Master of Finance from Cambridge University where she sat as President of the Cambridge University Cryptocurrency Society in her final year of study. She is passionate about financial empowerment, especially in emerging economies.
Colin Goltra
Colin Goltra is the former COO at YGG and the Director of Southeast Asia at Binance, the world's largest Cryptocurrency platform, where he is focused on expanding markets, access, and infrastructure for Crypto throughout the Philippines & Southeast Asia. Colin is an avid collector of NFT-based Crypto Art and an active proponent of Filipino self-empowerment in the Crypto-Metaverse. Along with Gabby Dizon, Colin co-created the Narra Gallery, a virtual gallery space and cultural capital fund meant to help bridge the divide between the Philippines and the crypto world. His thoughts on the Crypto Art movement have also been featured globally in 'The Wall Street Journal,' 'The New York Times Magazine,' as well as numerous other crypto and NFT ecosystem publications.
Akio Tanaka
Akio Tanaka is a Partner at Headline Asia, an Asian venture capital firm, and Co-Founder & Partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto. He has previously held positions as the head of the venture investment program for Adobe in Asia and the CTO of Macromedia Japan. He also has experience as a technology advisor for investment and M&A strategies in Asia.
Alex Yeh
Alex Yeh is a partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto and co-founder of Aurablock Ventures, Taiwan's first digital asset investment institution. He previously worked at CDIB Capital, where he focused on PE FoF investment for China Life. Yeh is also a director of Globaltec Capital and Realtek Holdings Family Office, where he focuses on VC and PE investments.
Brian Lu
Brian Lu is a founding partner at Mythos Venture Partners and was previously a partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto, a leading Asian venture capital firm. He has co-founded YGG Sea and Sweeper DAO. With 15 years of experience in business development in the APAC region, he has extensive connections in the ASEAN region and has acted as an advisor and consultant to several multinational corporations in the region.
Alexei Udall
Alexei Udall is Head Of Partnerships at KAP Games and former Head Of Partnerships at Yield Guild Games, NFT Asset Manager at Blackpool.Finance.
Herbie Fu
Herbie Fu is a partner at Hack VC. He has served as a partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto, Alpha Square Group, and 8 Decimal Capital.
JT Law
JT Law is a partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto and a seasoned investment professional with experience at major financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and Citigroup/SSB. He was also a member of the investment committee at GF Securities' first overseas private equity fund. Moreover, he co-founded VerifyInvestor, which was later acquired by tZERO, a subsidiary of Overstock. Law currently serves as an advisor to tZERO, Prime Trust, and Simplex Japan.
Richie Chaval Jiaravanon
Richie Chaval Jiaravanon is a partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto and has a successful track record in the technology and digital industry. He was the former CEO of Snapask Thailand, and currently serves as a director for Velo Lab, overseeing the development of VELO utility tokens for digital credit settlement. Jiaravanon has also held leadership positions at Lightnet Group, leading the company's largest Series A fundraising in Thailand, and at HIP Digital as Vice President.
Dan Wang
Dan Wang is the co-founder and CBO of Aethir, former Venture Partner at Infinity Ventures Crypto, Chief Investment Officer at YGG SEA, and a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in economics. He has experience in the finance and tech industries and is an active angel investor in sustainability and entertainment. Previously, he led international teams at Riot Games and headed up operations for Riot – China following the Tencent acquisition.
