Tarrence Van As is the co-founder and CEO of Cartridge, a New York-based company building the infrastructure for fully onchain games. Cartridge leads development of Dojo, an open-source toolchain for provable games and autonomous worlds on Starknet, alongside Controller, a passkey-based smart contract wallet, and Slot, a rollup-as-a-service for game developers. A University of Michigan computer science engineer who bought his first Bitcoin in 2013 and shipped Ethereum smart contracts by 2015, Tarrence previously worked on mixed reality at Magic Leap before helping build the Dope Wars NFT ecosystem and founding Cartridge in 2022. In August 2024 the company raised a $7.5M Series A led by BITKRAFT Ventures.
Vatsal Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Jabali.ai, a Los Altos startup building a no-code, generative-AI game engine that lets anyone create and publish video games from text prompts. A 20-year product and engineering executive, he helped build the Oculus App Store at Meta (which generated $1.5B+ in cumulative revenue), led AWS Game Tech, ran Studios at Storm8, and served as Chief Product Officer at Skillz. In 2024 Jabali raised a $5M seed round led by BITKRAFT Ventures with Sapphire Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund.