46 VC firms investing in media & entertainment and gaming at the Pre-Seed stage.
F4 Fund tracks 46 VC firms that actively invest in media & entertainment + gaming at the Pre-Seed stage, with check sizes ranging from $20K – $200M (median: $2.6M – $2.6M). As of June 2026, and 96% lead or co-lead rounds. Rankings are based on F4's proprietary analysis of 1,358+ researched VC firms, scored by data completeness, portfolio depth, investment recency, and stage alignment.
| # | Firm | Check Size | Portfolio | Leads? | Activity | Decision | Intro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ▶ Velo Partners Velo Partners is a specialist gaming and gambling VC that invests across the full spectrum of the global gaming ecosystem — mobile, online, land-based, real-money, social, B2B, and B2C. They back companies with strong early traction and clear unit economics, providing hands-on governance and operational support. Through RNG Foundry, they also incubate early-stage iGaming content studios. London | $500K – $7M | 62 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 2 | ▶ Transcend Game makers deserve capital partners who deeply understand their industry. We invest in talented founders building the next generation of games and digital entertainment across all platforms and business models. Our conviction comes from 30+ years of operating experience in this space. | $2M – $15M | 31 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 3 | ▶ Courtside Ventures Sports, lifestyle, and gaming represent the next generation of consumer spending and time allocation. We partner with founders who challenge traditional definitions and build sustainable, scaled consumer businesses. | $500K – $8M | 86 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 4 | ▶ Shochiku We leverage 130 years of entertainment heritage to identify gaming companies with strong IP and cross-media adaptation potential. We invest in developers and studios building franchises, providing publishing support, distribution, and opportunities for anime/film adaptation. We add value through media mix expansion, not just capital. | $500K – $20M | 12 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 5 | ▶ Sony We invest in technology-driven transformational companies shaping the future of business, entertainment and society. We foster Sony's future businesses through strategic early-stage venture investments, seeking technologies with potential to transform industries while building synergies with Sony Group business units. | $2M – $20M | 200 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 6 | ▶ The Chernin Group (TCG) Invest in platforms and brands that shape culture, with passionate, loyal audiences and strong direct-to-consumer relationships. We partner with visionary founders who have built authentic communities. Los Angeles | $5M – $100M | 37 | Leads | Active | 3+ mo | Open |
| 7 | ▶ Lumikai India's $30B+ gaming and interactive media market represents the world's most significant venture opportunity. We back category-defining founders building sustainable, innovative gaming companies in India. | $250K – $5M | 8 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 8 | ▶ Advancit Capital We partner with best-in-class entrepreneurs building the next generation of leading companies at the intersection of media, entertainment, technology, and web3. Our distinctive value comes from facilitating strategic connections between portfolio companies and major media conglomerates, distribution platforms, and Fortune 500 media executives. Norwood, MA | $50K – $1M | 27 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 9 | ▶ Sharp Alpha Competitive Entertainment — any form of recreation where winning matters. We invest at the software layer in sports betting, fantasy sports, gaming, esports, social sports venues, and fan engagement technology. We believe the most economically and experientially desirable place to build technology is where people lean forward and become enraptured in competition. New York | $250K – $30M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 10 | ▶ ForsVC The gaming industry requires dedicated capital that understands both the creative and commercial challenges of building game companies. ForsVC backs the full gaming ecosystem — studios, technology platforms, publishers, and services — with hands-on operational support through their FORSight program. Kortrijk, Belgium | $150K – $1.5M | 14 | Both | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 11 | ▶ the mini fund Advisory-focused seed fund supporting founders in creating lasting foundations for their vision. We combine capital with deep operational guidance through embedded advisors covering hiring, company culture, fundraising, product, and technical leadership. Founder-market fit and learning orientation are essential. | $250K – $3.7M | 32 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 12 | ▶ Tirta We empower builders and creators with capital and deep operational expertise. Gaming is undergoing fundamental transformation at the intersection of AI, creator empowerment, and infrastructure evolution. We partner with technical founders building innovative games, creator tools, and gaming infrastructure. | $250K – $3M | 29 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 13 | ▶ Versus Ventures Passion-driven, technical teams are uniquely positioned to capture emerging opportunities at the intersection of gaming, sports technology, and fintech. We partner with founders who combine technical depth with genuine passion for their domain and deep understanding of their user communities. User engagement is the critical lever across all three sectors—not vanity metrics like downloads, but active, monetizing users drive platform value. Philadelphia | $250K – $1M | 11 | Both | Active | ~2 mo | Req'd |
| 14 | ▶ Makers Fund Backing builders of the future of interactive entertainment. We invest across games, content, platforms, and ecosystem technologies with conviction that visionary founders are driving transformation in how we play, watch, create, and live. | $500K – $5M | 158 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 15 | ▶ Science Science identifies entrenched markets and societal shifts and invests in disruptive companies with new ideas and highly focused teams. We combine venture capital with a studio model, providing operational expertise, predictive strategy, and shared services to help founders build category-defining consumer brands and technology companies. Santa Monica | $500K – $5M | 44 | Leads | Between | ~2 mo | Open |
| 16 | ▶ Supernode Global We invest in early-stage consumer and B2B technologies that meaningfully enhance personal and professional lives. We back application-layer software with consumer-grade UX that people actually use every day. Our focus: Wellbeing (health & vitality, life optimization, community & social) and Productivity (intelligent workflows, creative enablement, professional augmentation). | $500K – $3M | 27 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Req'd |
| 17 | ▶ 6th Man Ventures (6MV) The user-owned internet is inevitable. We enable the founders and communities building it with capital, practical support, research, and connections. We invest in Web3-native founders who are actively using the products they're building. United States | $2M – $5M | 25 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 18 | ▶ Muse Capital We invest in traditionally overlooked and untapped consumer technology opportunities across the future of how we care, play, and live. Demographic shifts (aging population, female wealth, cultural diversity) create massive new markets. We don't chase hype—we invest in what should exist. Los Angeles | $100K – $1M | 25 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 19 | ▶ GFR Fund GFR Fund invests in pre-seed to Series A companies building emerging digitally-native communities in gaming, entertainment, and consumer tech. They seek founders who deeply understand community-building, whether they have a product with an existing community or are in early stages of building one. Strong focus on execution, founder-market fit, and capital efficiency. | $250K – $500K | 69 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 20 | ▶ Crush Ventures Back early-stage technology and brands that will shape pop culture — tools that help artists and brands find, engage, and monetize fans — using the Crush Music artist roster (Miley Cyrus, Green Day, Sia, Lorde, Weezer, Fall Out Boy) as live distribution and validation. New York | $250K – $5M | 34 | Both | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 21 | ▶ Galaxy Interactive Gaming-born technologies—GPUs, real-time rendering, virtual economies—now power AI, spatial computing, and blockchain. We invest in the foundational infrastructure enabling the convergence of digital and physical worlds. New York | $500K – $10M | 21 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 22 | ▶ SNÖ Ventures Nordic-focused VC providing global access and local support for the region's most daring tech pioneers. We back transformative companies across gaming, AI, software infrastructure, and emerging technologies with founders who have global ambitions and shipping experience. | $250K – $5M | 21 | Leads | 2mo | ~2 wks | Open |
| 23 | ▶ Cosmic Venture Partners Early-stage, operator-led firm investing in next-generation consumer platforms, products, and services. We combine fintech, entertainment, and Wall Street expertise to provide hands-on operational support beyond capital. Austin | $100K – $5M | 30 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 24 | ▶ Greycroft Partnering with brilliant founders to upend the status quo by investing in AI-driven software, sustainability technologies, and innovative consumer brands. We believe AI will dominate software over the next decade, and we seek to support founders reimagining industries across all three sectors. New York | $2M – $100M | 48 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 25 | ▶ Presence Capital VR and AR are transformative technologies. We invest in early-stage companies creating novel experiences, content, and enabling infrastructure. We bring deep operational expertise from building FarmVille, Unreal Engine, Gears of War, and leading HTC's VR initiative. San Francisco | $25K – $100K | 21 | Follows | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 26 | ▶ WXR Fund Gender-diverse teams building spatial computing and AI companies represent the best founders and the next computing paradigm. Female-founded teams outperform all-male teams by 63% and are systematically underfunded. San Francisco | $100K – $1M | 20 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 27 | ▶ Dreamers VC Where capital becomes culture. Dreamers VC bridges established Japanese corporate investors with early-stage US companies by combining entertainment, sports, and technology expertise. The fund leverages celebrity networks, entertainment channels, and Japanese corporate partnerships to amplify storytelling and enable cross-cultural market expansion. Los Angeles | $250K – $5M | 43 | Both | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 28 | ▶ Alt Ventures New Zealand tech startups and creative companies have exceptional potential. We provide early-stage capital and operational support through our network of industry advisors to help exceptional founders achieve breakthrough results. | $250K – $1.5M | 30 | Leads | Active | — | — |
| 29 | ▶ Banana Capital Identify resilient, obsessed founders with exceptional conviction and a chip on their shoulder building category-defining products with defensible distribution. Target founders to work with for the next decade, seeking businesses with clear revenue prospects in large markets. Ann Arbor, Michigan | $25K – $300K | 22 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 30 | ▶ 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 | 48 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 31 | ▶ F4 Fund We back the relentless - founders with exceptional drive, clear vision, and proven execution ability building ambitious category-defining companies. | $100K – $500K | 32 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Req'd |
| 32 | ▶ Incubate Fund Incubate Fund provides unwavering hands-on support to visionary entrepreneurs from the earliest stages. As Japan's leading seed-stage VC, they go beyond capital to provide operational support, founder counseling, talent recruitment, and business introductions. Core question: 'Does this action lead to impact?' Tokyo | $200K – $2M | 25 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | — |
| 33 | ▶ Sweet Capital Early-stage consumer technology — mobile, social, marketplaces, media, consumer health, and consumer fintech. Built by King.com founders to back ambitious consumer-native teams with engagement DNA. London | $250K – $2M | 12 | Both | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 34 | ▶ Origins Fund Origins backs legendary consumer founders with an unfair advantage from pre-seed to series A. We combine venture capital with the power of celebrity and athlete influence, providing not just capital but access to 160M+ social media followers through our limited partners for user acquisition and brand amplification. New York | $100K – $500K | 21 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 35 | ▶ Eniac Ventures Partner with exceptional founders building from 0 to 1, with focus on AI applications, developer tools, SaaS, and healthcare. Believe in founders who have succeeded once or have deep domain expertise. | $500K – $5M | 26 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 36 | ▶ Rainfall Ventures We invest in world-class founders solving significant problems. We prioritize founder quality, founder-problem fit, and values-aligned partnerships. We help exceptional founders become category leaders early, before they become obvious trends. Los Angeles | $500K – $5M | 41 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 37 | ▶ 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 | 30 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 38 | ▶ Debut Capital Early-stage venture capital for IT and Biotech companies in Colorado Front Range and Mid-Atlantic. Focus on experienced founding teams solving important problems with potential for significant financial returns. Patient capital approach with operational support and deep regional networks. New York | $500K – $5M | 48 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Req'd |
| 39 | ▶ Expa We build category-defining companies through a combination of design, product, operations, and capital. We identify market gaps, pair brilliant founders with Expa's studio resources, and help them build companies that reshape entire industries. San Francisco | $500K – $5M | 60 | Leads | Active | ~1 wk | Open |
| 40 | ▶ Goodwater Capital Consumer technology has the power to measurably improve billions of lives across the globe. We invest in exceptional entrepreneurs building digital utilities that provide better access to housing, healthcare, food, financial services, transportation, education, and entertainment globally. Burlingame, California | $5M – $50M | 29 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Req'd |
| 41 | ▶ 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 | 33 | Both | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
| 42 | ▶ Elevate Ventures Elevate Ventures partners with innovation-driven founders to provide strategic capital, mentorship, and ecosystem access. Founded by a former founder (Governor Mitch Daniels), the firm believes the best founders exhibit grit, creativity, and coachability. They invest across all sectors and geographies but maintain primary focus on Indiana and Great Lakes Region entrepreneurs building cross-sector innovations. Indianapolis | $20K – $2M | 28 | Leads | Active | ~1 mo | Open |
| 43 | ▶ 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 |
| 44 | ▶ 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 |
| 45 | ▶ Asylum Ventures The best founders are artists — obsessive, compelled by novel ideas, and often initially misunderstood. Asylum backs these creative builders with capital and hands-on support when asked, without taking board seats or administrative control. Fund I is $55M deploying $1–2M checks at pre-seed and seed. Brooklyn | $1M – $2M | 8 | Leads | Active | — | Open |
| 46 | ▶ Hidden Capital High-conviction seed fund focused on alignment and partnership. Blake invests in technical founders building enduring companies across gaming, hardware, creator economy, and emerging tech. Core belief: VC is a service business where concentrated ownership creates genuine incentives for hands-on support. | $500K – $3M | 3 | Leads | Active | ~2 wks | Open |
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F4 Fund tracks 46 VC firms that actively invest in media & entertainment + gaming at the Pre-Seed 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 pre-seed media & entertainment + gaming investors is $2.6M – $2.6M, with a full range from $20K – $200M. The distribution breaks down as: 6 firms in the <$500K range, 6 firms in the $500K-$1M range, 8 firms in the $1M-$2M range, 16 firms in the $2M-$5M range, 2 firms in the $5M-$10M range, 8 firms in the $10M+ range.
Among the 46 firms tracked, 96% lead or co-lead rounds, and 4% 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 pre-seed media & entertainment + gaming investors combine domain expertise with an active portfolio in the space. Among these firms, 39% prefer warm introductions, and the average firm has 37 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.