19 VC firms investing in gaming and aerospace & defense at the Series A stage.
F4 Fund tracks 19 VC firms that actively invest in gaming + aerospace & defense at the Series A stage, with check sizes ranging from $50K – $200M (median: $2.8M – $2.8M). As of August 2026, and 89% lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 1,644+ researched VC firms, scored by data completeness, portfolio depth, investment recency, and stage alignment.
| # | Firm | Check Size | Portfolio | Leads? | Activity | Decision | Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▶ Seven Seven Six Seed and early-stage technology companies with strong focus on Bitcoin ecosystem and gaming. We invest as a group of serial entrepreneurs who actively partner with world-class teams to build global category winners. Bitcoin is TCP/IP for realtime value transport on the Internet. San Francisco | $250K – $2M | 141 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 2 | ▶ Red Beard Ventures Drive mass adoption of crypto and Web3 through investments in companies with strong tokenomics and utility design. Leverage ecosystem of 3,000+ LPs and 25,000+ gaming community to provide portfolio companies instant network effects and user acquisition. Brooklyn | $100K – $1M | 107 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 3 | ▶ Hiro Capital Europe can lead the next phase of human evolution enabled by technology. We invest in AI, Spatial Computing, Autonomy, Robotics, Longevity, Games, and Space/Defence. We are founders backing founder leaders with hands-on engagement. | $5M – $50M | 43 | Leads | Active | N/A | Req'd |
| 4 | ▶ Paradigm Research-driven frontier technology investment firm that builds and invests in crypto, AI, robotics, and other new frontiers from the earliest stages. Paradigm remains deeply technical and research-led, collaborating on papers, code, product, and business strategy with ambitious builders. San Francisco | $1M – $100M | 41 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 5 | ▶ Konvoy Konvoy invests in thesis-driven companies building the future of interactive entertainment, critical infrastructure, and deep tech. We combine deep gaming expertise with cross-sector innovation vision to identify platforms and technologies shaping the future. | $500K – $5M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 6 | ▶ Spacecadet Ventures Founders building the possibly impossible deserve capital plus marketing support. Great technology combined with exceptional storytelling and narrative development creates world-changing moonshots. We provide both the capital and the story-telling expertise to help founders achieve escape velocity. New York | $250K – $1M | 99 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 7 | ▶ MANTIS Venture Capital Mantis invests opportunistically in Seed and Series A technology-enabled startups, leveraging deep social capital across tech, media, entertainment, and finance to provide unmatched GTM support. The firm is founder-obsessed and differentiates through celebrity network access, customer introductions, talent acquisition help, and brand amplification. Santa Monica | $500K – $3M | 113 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 8 | ▶ One Way Ventures Immigrants are strongly underrepresented in venture capital despite founding or co-founding 55% of America's billion-dollar startups. Immigration and entrepreneurship are parallel one-way journeys. We back exceptional immigrant founders because their success is not priced into the market. Boston | $250K – $3M | 41 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 9 | ▶ Upfront Ventures Early investors and long-term partners. We back exceptional founders solving real problems across sectors. When you hit a bump in the road, we're there solving problems alongside you with operational expertise and network leverage. | $1M – $15M | 49 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 10 | ▶ Andreessen Horowitz Backing the builders of the next layer of computing across AI infrastructure, defense, biotech, and American dynamism. Former 'Software is Eating the World' thesis evolved to 'AI is Eating Software'. Partners with technical founders building foundation models, cloud systems, and infrastructure for the AI era. Menlo Park | $1M – $200M | 53 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 11 | ▶ Bling Capital The hardest thing in seed is finding product-market fit. We help you find it. If you already have product-market fit, we will help you scale. We partner with exceptionally ambitious founders for the long run and provide capital combined with operational expertise through our 100+ member Product Council. San Francisco | $500K – $3M | 36 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Open |
| 12 | ▶ HOF Capital HOF Capital invests in relentlessly ambitious founders building world-changing technologies that accelerate abundance: sustained technological progress that expands access to opportunity, health, and economic prosperity. Its current public thesis emphasizes AI and agentic systems as amplifiers of discovery, engineering, and knowledge creation, alongside frontier infrastructure and applications that can shorten scientific and technological invention timelines. New York | $500K – $10M | 29 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 13 | ▶ Sand Hill Angels Sand Hill Angels backs seed-stage, high-tech companies with large and growing markets, well-defined problems, disruptive solutions, defensible technology, and strong teams with demonstrated ability to execute. The group leverages 145+ experienced angels to provide capital, mentorship, and network access across the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Mountain View | $50K – $2M | 32 | Follows | Active | N/A | Open |
| 14 | ▶ Cherry Ventures Cherry backs ambitious, resourceful, resilient founders with a novel insight ("anomaly") and a coherent, feasible path to an underexplored shared need ("the red thread"), investing industry-curiously across Europe often before product or revenue exist. Berlin | $2M – $7M | 30 | Both | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 15 | ▶ TenOneTen Ventures Technical founders backing technical founders. We invest early in technical teams transforming major industries facing existential threats and tremendous opportunities. We target essential sectors—healthcare, logistics, real estate, manufacturing—where technical innovation solves critical problems. Los Angeles | $250K – $5M | 25 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 16 | ▶ Strong Ventures Back resilient founders building category-defining companies. Leverage Korea's cultural wave for global expansion. When others say 'no', we find the 'yes'. Los Angeles | $500K – $5M | 35 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 17 | ▶ 3VC Entrepreneurs by heart, investors by choice: 3VC partners with regional talent across DACH, CEE, the Baltics, and Southern Europe showing early signs of product-market fit and customer love, and helps them become global category leaders. Vienna | $2M – $10M | 24 | Both | Active | N/A | Open |
| 18 | ▶ Gaingels Equity of access and representation in venture capital delivers positive returns. Diverse and underrepresented (including LGBTQ+) leaders of high-growth companies deserve capital access. When these founders succeed, they influence ecosystems and open doors for historically excluded groups. New York | $200K – $500K | 29 | Follows | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 19 | ▶ Evolution Venture Capital Partners Culture-Tech companies that disrupt and define how we live, work, play, and interact with the world every day. We invest in passionate founders building transformative products that change cultural behaviors. New York | $500K – $6M | 28 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
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F4 Fund tracks 19 VC firms that actively invest in gaming + aerospace & defense at the Series A stage. These firms are ranked using a composite score that weighs data completeness (30%), portfolio depth (30%), investment recency (25%), and stage alignment (15%).
Based on F4's analysis, the median check size for series a gaming + aerospace & defense investors is $2.8M – $2.8M, with a full range from $50K – $200M. The distribution breaks down as: 1 firms in the <$500K range, 2 firms in the $500K-$1M range, 5 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 5 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 3 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 3 firms in the $10M+ range.
Among the 19 firms tracked, 89% lead or co-lead rounds, and 11% typically follow. Founders seeking a lead investor should filter for firms marked "Leads" or "Both" in the rankings table above. Lead investors typically set deal terms and anchor the round.
The best series a gaming + aerospace & defense investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 28% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 51 portfolio companies. Look for firms whose check size matches your raise, whose stage preference aligns with yours, and who have a track record of supporting companies in your sector through multiple growth phases.
Firm profiles are continuously updated through F4's research pipeline, which combines LLM-powered web research, portfolio analysis, and transcript extraction. The ranking data refreshes every 12 hours. Editorial analysis is reviewed weekly. Individual firm profiles are re-researched on a 30-day cycle or when new information surfaces.