Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$2,000,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000,000.00Target Investment:
$10,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- HU
- TB
Lists including Moritz
Investments
Volley
Total Funding: $72M
k-ID
Total Funding: $50M
Inworld AI
Total Funding: $140M
Gardens
Total Funding: $67M
The Believer Company
Total Funding: $110M
Emerge
Total Funding: $54M
Arcturus
Total Funding: $27M
Methodical Games
Total Funding: $30M
Horizon Blockchain Games
Total Funding: $54M
Sprocket Games
Total Funding: $5M
TRIPP
Total Funding: $26M
Lightforge Games
Total Funding: $15M
Wagr
Total Funding: $16M
OpenBCI
Total Funding:
NOVOS
Total Funding: $12M
Raid Base
Total Funding:
Theorycraft Games
Total Funding: $130M
Epic Games
Total Funding: $5.1B
Neuro
Total Funding:
Work Experience
2022
Partner
2022
Leading Lightspeed's gaming & interactive media practice. We support extraordinary entrepreneurs with $29 billion in assets, deep domain expertise, a truly global platform, and a culture that puts founders first—from first check to IPO, with 200+ exits to date.
Lead Investor & Board Director, Gardens Interactive
2023
4x "Game of the Year" designers (Sky, Journey) crafting a game inspired by their favorite experiences playing MMOs and fantasy ARPGs over the years—particularly moments shared with strangers.
Lead Investor & Board Director, k-ID
2024
The leading cross-platform, instant sign-on solution for kids and teens. An all-in-one answer for solving the complex global issues of privacy and online safety, integrated with many of the largest publishers worldwide.
Lead Investor & Board Director, Inworld AI
2023
The leading framework for developers of AI-native consumer applications, created by world-class experts who pioneered generative AI at Google and DeepMind.
Investor, OpenAI
2024
Leading AI frontier research lab and consumer product company on a mission to create artificial general intelligence. Maker of ChatGPT, used by almost 1 billion people every month.
Lead Investor & Board Director, The Believer Company
2022
Former Executive Producers of League of Legends and Wild Rift—games that collectively grossed well over $10 billion to date. Now, the duo is on a mission to bring previously impossible player dreams to life.
Lead Investor & Board Director, Volley
2022
Highest-grossing AI-powered game company, building voice-enabled experiences for Amazon Alexa, Fire TVs, Roku TVs, and mobile devices—leveraging voice recognition, LLM content, and speech synthesis.
2025
Founding Team Member
2025
We founded the frontier research lab dedicated to games—and the real world. Raised $133.7M to build foundation models for environments that require deep spatial and temporal reasoning.
2021
Delegate, Annual Meeting
2023
Invited on a "white badge" for the Annual Meetings of 2024 & 2025 alongside leaders from over 100 governments and CEOs of the world's most impactful companies.
Advisor, AI Governance Alliance / AI Transformation of Industries
2024
Committed to fostering inclusive, ethical, and sustainable AI, my personal focus within the broader initiative is on generative AI applications in gaming and interactive media.
Advisor & Founding Member, Technology Convergence Working Group
2024
Accelerating the impact of cutting-edge development to contribute to solving humanity’s greatest challenges, including AI, quantum computing, computer vision, and advanced materials & manufacturing.
Advisor & Founding Member, Metaverse Initiative
2021
Building an equitable, interoperable, and safe Metaverse; together with key constituents of the global technology and media ecosystem; and writing about gaming, interactive media, and extended reality (AR/VR).
Young Global Leader & Los Angeles Local Chair
2023
Working with civic and business leaders, technologists, educators, activists, and journalists from 120 countries to tackle challenges of global public interest. (Nomination by David M. Rubenstein.)
Guest Lecturer, Venture Capital
2015
Teaching about entrepreneurship and capital formation at Stanford's dy/dx program, in partnership between Lightspeed, Sequoia, Index, and Accel (previously lectured on gaming and adjacent topics).
Voting Member of the Board of Trustees
2014 - 2015
As a graduate representative and member of the Globalization Committee, helped guide the policies for operation and control of the university.
2020 - 2023
Partner & Management Team
2020 - 2023
Raised ~$850 million and built the most impactful gaming VC firm and lead investor of 2020, 2021, and 2022; very proud of what we created as a team.
2014 - 2019
Founder & Global Head of Gaming Practice
2016 - 2019
Started the firm's gaming practice (#1 in gaming M&A since) and worked closely with the world’s leading gaming and interactive media companies, including Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, and Take-Two.
Vice President / Executive Director, Technology Investment Banking (TMT)
2014 - 2019
Advised on over $300 billion deal volume across M&A and IPOs (incl. Dell's $67 billion acquisition of EMC and IBM's $34 billion purchase of Red Hat). Covered enterprise IT and deep tech (incl. SpaceX and Palantir).
Investor, Growth-Stage Venture Capital
2014 - 2019
As part of TMT's direct placements, invested in early growth-stage rounds in SpaceX (2017 & 2018), Palantir (2017; IPO at NYSE: PLTR in 2020), and Compass (2017; IPO at NYSE: COMP in 2021).
2016 - 2018
Guest Lecturer, Gaming & Interactive Media
2018 - 2018
Assisted in the preparation and teaching of a gaming and esports module for the inaugural program "Building Sports Businesses" at Harvard Business School.
Council Member & Speaker, German American Conference at Harvard
2016 - 2018
Helped bring together American and German leaders from business, politics, and academia for the largest student-led conference on transatlantic relations in the United States.
2014 - 2015
Advisor to the U.S. Digital Service (White House)
2014 - 2015
Advanced the cooperation among government agencies, technology corporations, and research universities with a focus on talent exchange between the White House and Silicon Valley.
2014 - 2014
Strategy Consultant
2014 - 2014
Worked with C-level management of a publicly listed company on a project at the interface of business strategy and technology (MBA internship, received full-time offer).
2006 - 2013
Data Scientist & Engagement Manager
2006 - 2013
Advised IBM's CEO, CFO, and country general managers as part of an internal strategy consulting division that also built and rolled out data science and AI solutions.