1Up Ventures
1upfund.com Direct investor
1Up Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in independent game developers. It aims to build a community of talented game developers and support them through collaboration.
1Up Ventures is a venture capital firm. It invests directly in companies, in game development and independent game developers.
“At 1Up Ventures we are building a diverse and inclusive community of the most talented, experienced, and creative independent game developers in the world.”
— 1Up Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Unknown
- Sectors
- game development, independent game developers
Team, as 1Up Ventures publishes it
- Ed Fries Founder & General Partner
- Kelly Wallick Founding Partner and Community Builder
- Chris Wheaton Fund Administrator
- Emily Greer Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on 1upfund.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 20 co-investors found.
- Sisu Game Ventures 4 shared companies: returnentertainment.com, wildseed.games, fuzzybot.com, jamandtea.studio
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 3 shared companies: believer.gg, 1047games.com, gardens.dev
- Hiro Capital LLP 3 shared companies: noodlecatgames.com, twinsunscorp.net, lightfoxgames.com
- Mantis Capital Management, LLC 3 shared companies: superbloomgames.com, notorious.gg, frostgiant.com
- Makers Fund 2 shared companies: noodlecatgames.com, betadwarf.com
- Courtside VC 2 shared companies: bebopbee.com, dropfake.com
- Vgames 2 Fund Management LTD 2 shared companies: returnentertainment.com, starform.co
- Basis Set Ventures 1 shared company: talofagames.com
- Fusion Fund 1 shared company: talofagames.com
- Next Legacy Management, LLC 1 shared company: believer.gg
and 10 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page 1Up Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://1upfund.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, sectors, thesis_quote, description, people
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Record 3333 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence medium
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