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
- Not stated
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 20 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence medium
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