Current Firm
1Up Ventures
Investments
10+ companies
Focus
Gaming, Consumer
About Ed Fries
Ed Fries spent decades creating games at Microsoft Game Studios and co-founding Xbox before becoming an investor, giving him unusually deep understanding of game development compared to typical finance-background VCs. At 1Up Ventures, he makes many small checks into around 50 game studios per fund to create a tight founder community that shares knowledge, while focusing exclusively on companies that make and sell games rather than tools or infrastructure.
Focus Areas
GamingConsumerWeb3
Investment Stage
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Notable Investments
Julian Capital
Harpoon Ventures
Humba Ventures
Fifty Years
Deep Checks
Founders Fund
Lightspeed
Sequoia Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Funds that lead pre-seeds