Our Team
The folks writing the checks and doing the work
Munly Leong
General Partner. Operator/Investor
Munly has been a former AAA game developer (as programmer) with Midway Games starting out while still in high school back in '96 as a game journalist for the Official Australian Playstation Magazine, PC Powerplay and other print magazines. He is also active in the startup world since 2011 and more recently active with the global startup community Hackers/Founders and as a startup community organizer for his adopted home base in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
His own struggle in raising and the founding of Balance Gaming Network was arguably better preparation for setting up this fund and highlighted the potential greater need for one. Gaming is not the only funding gap that Munly is trying to solve. As the founder of ASEAN Nomad Capital, and other fund concepts such as Remote Giants (for founders leveraging geoarbitrage similarly to build in digital nomad hotspots), he has been studying venture capital extensively long before an opportunity came up to pursue the startup journey himself.
Our Partners
Indietopia.org (Netherlands)
Hub, Incubator, Publisher
Indietopia is a non-profit incubator supported by the city of Groenigen that has supported over 25 game teams with both access to govt grants as well as facilities such as a video and VR studio, 3d printing. We share the same mission of being passionate about game development and trying to enable as many as possible to become self-supporting. They are also a Netherlands registered Startup Visa facilitator and we encourage as many as possible building out of Europe to base in Groenigen and leverage the soft landing space that Indietopia can provide.
CAMT @ Chiang Mai University (Thailand)
College of Arts, Media and Technology (pending)
CAMT is Thailand's best game development program while Chiang Mai University is one of Thailand's top universities and regular host of the Chiang Mai Game Jam . As a program that often graduates competent students into an ecosystem with few places to go, we hope we can offer a win/win early stage studio opportunities to the students and cost effective talent for our portfolio companies. With language being the primarily barrier that holds their students back, we hope our support and continued presence will encourage the students to level up enough to become globally investable themselves.
Level Ventures (USA)
Building successful venture capitalists.
Level Ventures has developed an effective process to help emerging managers start their own fund. This includes advise on creating a differentiable investment thesis, building the right team of partners and advisors, and creating an effective process to raise capital. They also have a network of family offices and institutional investors who are fund investors.
Level Ventures also supports and recognizes the gaming funding gap we're looking to address and is excited that gaming at least is relatively unique among a growing sea of emerging funds. Despite our own feelings on the matter, they still consider gaming to be part of tech!
