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Captain Oyu’s Third Startup Is Betting Japan’s Future on Wild Imagination
After building Mamari, selling PRISM Project to Sony and circling the globe, Shunsuke “Captain” Oyu is turning hand-drawn avatars into a passport for creators. His wager is simple: Japan’s next global export may be a self you can invent.
Fuel Venture Capital Built a Miami Bridge to the Private Tech Economy
Fuel Venture Capital planted its flag in Miami before the city became a startup slogan. Now the firm is pairing Wall Street risk discipline with a global search for technology companies - and opening that search to private-wealth investors.
LvlUp Ventures
LvlUp Ventures wants to be more than the name on a cap table. Its sprawling mix of small first checks, larger seed bets, accelerators and corporate partnerships is an attempt to turn a venture firm into operating infrastructure for founders.
Giulianna Crivello
Giulianna Crivello is the Founding General Partner of DSH Ventures, the pre-seed investment arm of Draper Startup House — the global co-living and coworking network for entrepreneurs backed by legendary VC Tim Draper. A 2018 valedictorian from Sierra Nevada College, she went from research analyst in Nevada to directing investments across 14 countries in her first year at DSH Ventures. She co-manages the fund with Vikram Bharati and has facilitated over 215 investor introductions to startups spanning the US, Singapore, India, and beyond, while helping build Draper Startup House into a presence spanning 25 embassies across 5 continents.
Luke Day
Luke Day is Co-founder and General Partner at MAGIC Fund, a $30M seed-stage venture firm built on the conviction that the best founders want money from people who've built things themselves. Focused on gaming, metaverse, and sports investments, Day came up through engineering recruiting at Discord and Roblox before co-founding one of the few truly decentralized VC funds - a 12-partner, multi-continent operation where each GP invests autonomously from their own domain expertise. MAGIC Fund's portfolio spans 250+ startups across 30+ countries with one unicorn (Retool) and a reported 5x return on its debut fund.