15 VC firms investing in gaming and security & cybersecurity at the Series B stage.
F4 Fund tracks 15 VC firms that actively invest in gaming + security & cybersecurity at the Series B stage, with check sizes ranging from $100K – $350M (median: $13M – $13M). As of August 2026, and 80% lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 1,699+ researched VC firms, scored by data completeness, portfolio depth, investment recency, and stage alignment.
| # | Firm | Check Size | Portfolio | Leads? | Activity | Decision | Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▶ Balderton Capital Balderton Capital backs European-founded technology companies with visionary founders building transformative businesses. The firm combines patient capital, operational expertise, and founder support to enable European entrepreneurs to build world-class companies. | $500K – $15M | 200 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 2 | ▶ Sony Innovation Fund Actively champion founders and entrepreneurs, fostering a culture where startups thrive, while serving as the bridge to Sony that drives deeper engagements through technical expertise and network access. Focused on DeepTech, Entertainment, EnterpriseTech, Fintech/DLT, ClimateTech, and Location-Based Entertainment. Tokyo | $500K – $20M | 147 | Follows | Active | N/A | Open |
| 3 | ▶ TransLink Capital Bridge US and global technology startups with more than 40 leading Asian multinational corporations, validating strategic partner intent pre-investment to accelerate go-to-market and drive follow-on co-investment. Palo Alto | $500K – $7M | 95 | Both | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 4 | ▶ Acequia Capital (AceCap) Acequia Capital partners with technical founders and product teams building the next wave of global businesses. They provide more than capital—experienced operators offer strategic guidance on product roadmap, technology strategy, business model, and GTM execution. The firm is a center of a global innovation ecosystem with unique capability to detect earliest signal in emerging technology trends. Seattle | $1M – $25M | 32 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 5 | ▶ Third Point Ventures Identifies technology transitions creating market opportunities, particularly AI/ML-powered automation transforming enterprise infrastructure. Current focus on AI security (Zenity, DataGrail, Grip Security), AI durability (Diagrid), and AI observability (Kentik) — the three pillars needed to bring AI from experimentation to production at scale. Menlo Park | $1M – $50M | 39 | Leads | Active | N/A | N/A |
| 6 | ▶ IVP We supercharge growth in breakout companies, converting momentum into market dominance. We invest exclusively at Series B and beyond in companies that have achieved product-market fit and are ready to scale from millions to hundreds of millions in revenue. San Francisco | $1M – $25M | 31 | Leads | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 7 | ▶ Cleveland Avenue Global venture capital firm investing in lifestyle consumer brands and technology companies that positively disrupt large and growing markets. Great investments require deep industry expertise, hands-on operational support, and access to strategic partners. Chicago | $1M – $50M | 68 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 8 | ▶ 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 |
| 9 | ▶ Kaszek Partner with extraordinary founders building the next generation of iconic Latin American technology companies. Invest in any tech-enabled sector where innovation can drive significant disruption. Bring not just capital but deep operational expertise as former MercadoLibre executives and entrepreneurs. Buenos Aires | $500K – $50M | 61 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 10 | ▶ 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 |
| 11 | ▶ 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 |
| 12 | ▶ Insight Partners Software founders need more than capital to scale successfully. Insight Partners combines investment capital with hands-on operational expertise, embedded teams, and network access to accelerate company growth across all stages. New York | $10M – $350M | 28 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 13 | ▶ Sequel Sequel is a digital family office for elite athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs. They back founders who 'bend reality' and believe impossible is an opinion, co-investing alongside top-tier VCs in companies that advance humanity. Beyond capital, Sequel provides storytelling, network access, media attention, and go-to-market support from their community of world champions and culture shapers. Focus areas include healthcare, climate, education, sports tech, and financial inclusion. Miami | $100K – $3M | 8 | Follows | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 14 | ▶ Atomico Founder-centric, largely sector-agnostic investing across Europe, backing technically strong founders building globally ambitious companies, including capital-intensive deep tech and moonshot bets alongside traditional software and consumer businesses. London | $5M – $50M | 13 | Leads | Active | N/A | Req'd |
| 15 | ▶ Coatue The best investment opportunities emerge at the intersection of innovation and scale. We invest across the full lifecycle from seed to public markets, focusing on technology companies that will transform sectors globally with particular conviction in AI-enabled platforms and infrastructure. New York | $1M – $100M | 31 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
Investors on this page also frequently invest in these sectors
What other stages do these firms also invest in?
What other sectors do these firms also invest in?
F4 Fund tracks 15 VC firms that actively invest in gaming + security & cybersecurity at the Series B 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 b gaming + security & cybersecurity investors is $13M – $13M, with a full range from $100K – $350M. The distribution breaks down as: 1 firms in the <$500K range, 1 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 1 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 3 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 9 firms in the $10M+ range.
Among the 15 firms tracked, 80% lead or co-lead rounds, and 20% 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 b gaming + security & cybersecurity investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 31% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 56 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.