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your Ikigai?
A seed-stage venture fund of industry insiders investing in the most promising founders in gaming and frontier tech.
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What Makes Us Unique
What makes Ikigai Ventures different? We don’t just write cheques and hope for the best. We’re smart money. Backed by the SiGMA Group, you will benefit from significant introductions and worldwide exposure. We will support you tremendously in both obvious and subtle ways.
Who We Are
Curious about our culture?
We’re an agile group of industry insiders, builders and operators.
We’re here to help others create and scale transformative companies.
General
Partner
eman
pulis
Eman brings with him a wealth of experience in igaming and blockchain, having founded SiGMA and AIBC conferences. His business network exceeds 10,000 related companies and C level executives.
Investment Partner
Vinícius de Carvalho
Vinícius boasts 20+ years merging finance and tech, serving as both investor and operator. With notable ventures across Europe and Latin America, he holds an MBA from ESADE, Spain.
Legal Counsel
Marianna Tavella
A first-class Cambridge graduate, Marianna passed the bar in both UK and Cyprus, and has extensive experience in corporate and commercial transactions.
CFO
Christian Steusloff
Christian is bringing a wealth of experience in corporate banking, M&A and management consulting merged into a recent focus on setting up and growing finance business partners in startups.
Venture Partner
Dylan Attard, M.D.
A dynamic physician with a surgical background. Currently leading SiGMA’s healthcare conference verticals. Interested in digital health and entrepreneurship. Firmly believe that innovation and entrepreneurship will help solve any of the world’s next crises.
Head of Finance
Konstantinos Konstantinou
Konstantinos is a professional accountant with six years of demonstrated experience in the Financial industry supporting Ikigai as the Head of Finance.
General Partner
eman pulis
Eman brings with him a wealth of experience in igaming and blockchain, having founded SiGMA and AIBC conferences. His business network exceeds 10,000 related companies and C level executives.
Investment Partner
Vinícius de Carvalho
Vinícius boasts 20+ years merging finance and tech, serving as both investor and operator. With notable ventures across Europe and Latin America, he holds an MBA from ESADE, Spain.
Legal Counsel
Marianna Tavella
A first-class Cambridge graduate, Marianna passed the bar in both UK and Cyprus, and has extensive experience in corporate and commercial transactions.
CFO
Christian Steusloff
Christian is bringing a wealth of experience in corporate banking, M&A and management consulting merged into a recent focus on setting up and growing finance business partners in startups.
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How we help
Ikigai brings operating experience, a diversified network and strong relationship to every investment.
Tech
With a “tech-first” mindset, we have preemptively set up a tech hub in Noida, India, home to 100+ developers, to support all our projects with our “plug-and-play” approach.
Capital
We lead early. Ikigai Ventures is often first institutional check that a startup or a founding team sees. However it’s what we deliver once the capital is deployed that makes us unique.
Community & Events
Ikigai hosts both small and large events bringing together people from our portfolio and community. We also have regular founder dinners and happy hours to build camaraderie in the portfolio so that our family of entrepreneurs can easily turn to each other for advice.
Operating Experience
We are a team of industry insiders, founders and builders. We want to leverage our experiences and perspectives to help founder at the earliest stage.
Advising
Partners meet with portfolio founders regularly to give advice. The highest leverage advice is usually making sure that the founders are focused on the right things that can provide great growth. We also help them figure our their capital situation, how much money to spend, and on what.
Sectors
Gaming
Frontier Tech
Gaming
Frontier Tech
Portfolio
We're just getting started,
here's who we've partnered with so far
Incubated Projects
Invested Projects
Portfolio
We're just getting started,
here's who we've partnered with so far
Incubated Projects
Invested Projects
Track Record
Our successful investing and founding story started with these
extraordinary companies
Our Collective
Blockchain Collective
Blockchain
Nodira Sadikova
Nodira, a Web 3.0 expert, thrives in Blockchain Gaming, FinTech, and MENA-focused digital ventures, championing women’s leadership in tech.
Blockchain
gordon einstein
Gordon Einstein: Crypto-Attorney, Technologist, and Enterprise Strategist. Intrigued by Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies since 2012, he’s a passionate computer hobbyist with programming prowess.
eSports Collective
eSports
emil christensen
CEO & founder of Granit Gaming and OY Drinks serial entrepreneur. Emil endeavours to revolutionize esports and build a community to last.
eSports
victor martyn
Victor Martyn, an eSports industry veteran, boasts unparalleled insight into one of the world’s fastest-growing sectors.
Our Collective
Blockchain
Nodira Sadikova
Nodira, a Web 3.0 expert, thrives in Blockchain Gaming, FinTech, and MENA-focused digital ventures, championing women’s leadership in tech.
eSports
victor martyn
Victor Martyn, an eSports industry veteran, boasts unparalleled insight into one of the world’s fastest-growing sectors.
eSports
emil christensen
CEO & founder of Granit Gaming and OY Drinks serial entrepreneur. Emil endeavours to revolutionize esports and build a community to last.
Blockchain
gordon einstein
Gordon Einstein: Crypto-Attorney, Technologist, and Enterprise Strategist. Intrigued by Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies since 2012, he’s a passionate computer hobbyist with programming prowess.
Strategic Partners
We rely on these strategic partners to accelerate the startups we invest in.
Ikigai Retreat
Ikigai Retreat Dubai – Sponsored by ImobCoin
Ikigai Retreat is an ultra-exclusive networking event that connects investors in iGaming with fellow investors in Web3.
From literally hundreds of start-ups that we screen all year round, six very promising founders are also invited to pitch and share their growth strategy. These six founders are backed by Ikigai Ventures and investors will have the opportunity to co-invest.
Ikigai Retreat is by invitation only and restricted to qualified investors only.
Monday 13th March 2023 – Al Noor Lounge – InterContinental Hotel Festival City Dubai, UAE
17:00 — Pre Registration
17:20 — Speech by Eman Pulis
17:25 — Sponsor, ImobCoin
17:40 — Startup Pitch Starts
18:50 — Startup Pitch Closes
19:00 — Networking Drinks
20:00 — AIBC Awards Dinner
Contact us
Are you a startup seeking seed investment and support accelerating? Are you a seasoned investor or advisor from within those verticals? We’d love to hear from you.