Blake Commagere
Founder of Vault12
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Co-founder and COO
2015 - Current
Distributed, decentralized and serverless digital custody for any cryptocurrency. See more at vault12.com
Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
Advisor & Resident Mentor
2010
As an Advisor to the fund, I screen companies, in particular gaming companies. In addition, I provide office hours to the portfolio companies and provide advice on everything from Facebook integration, UI/UX and organic user acquisition to general business strategy, and fundraising.
500 Global is a multi-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies.
Raised $2,271,999.00 from Abu Dhabi Financial Group.
Advisor
2011
I provide advice to the portfolio companies on everything from Facebook integration, UI/UX and organic user acquisition to general business strategy, and fundraising.
Advisor
2011
I work in an advisory role for Gabagool Games - providing insight in a few areas: mostly team dynamics, fundraising, and general business strategy.
Advisor
2012
I work in an advisory role for Fitocracy - providing insight in a few areas: growth, user behaviors, Facebook integration, fundraising, general business advice.
Advisor
2011
I work in an advisory role for PolyGraph Media - providing insight in a few areas: scalable architectures, fundraising, and general business advice.
Founder & CEO
2011 - 2015
We are building what will be the first social apps for the emerging mass medium of virtual reality. Along the way, we are also building out a set of tools for developers, including a native monetization platform, which we originally developed for mobile gaming and then recently adapted to virtual reality. Our platform reaches over 200MM monthly active users across a large network of publishers. MediaSpike has raised over $5MM from institutional investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Google Ventures, prominent angel investors Naval Ravikant and Rick Marini, as well as celebrity investors Robert Downey Jr. and Nas. Our advisory board includes luminaries such as Dave McClure, Charles Hudson, Shervin Pishevar, and Gokul Rajaram.
MediaSpike provides a monetization platform for social and mobile games.
Raised $5,200,000.00 from Google Ventures, Raptor Ventures, Inspovation Ventures, Othman Laraki, Augusta Investments, Naval Ravikant, CMEA Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Adeyemi Ajao and 500 Global.
Advisor
2010 - 2014
I worked in an advisory role for BranchOut - providing insight in a few areas: growth, scalable architectures, Facebook integration, and general business advice. We sold BranchOut to 1-Page Ltd in Nov 2014.
BranchOut lets people capture and share everyday moments in the workplace through photos, news and updates.
Raised $49,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, Redpoint, Accel, Norwest Venture Partners and Mayfield Fund.
Founder & CEO
2007 - 2011
I created the first social games on Facebook. Leveraging my extensive viral marketing experience from previous companies, (Plaxo, CareBadges, Causes), I created a set of game mechanics based on viral marketing principles and as a one-man team acquired 50MM+ users within a few months. I created the vast majority of user acquisition techniques used in every social and mobile game you see today. I was able to aggressively further my knowledge of user behavior and viral marketing by conceiving, implementing, and iterating on a huge number of growth techniques/engagement features. I typically pushed two releases a day, which allowed me to learn and adapt at a much more rapid pace than anyone else in the space. I sold these games to Ohai in March 2008.
Founder & CTO
2008 - 2009
Along with Scott Hartsman, (the current CEO of Trion), co-founded the company, and played an active role in raising our Series A of over $6MM from August Capital and Rustic Canyon Ventures. We built the first-of-its-kind synchronous, isometric in-brower MMO on Facebook and continued to operate the games I had previously built. In my time there, I quadrupled the revenue from the existing games, integrated the synchronous systems across all 11 of our games (some of which were on as many as four social networks), and built an extremely talented team of 20 people.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree
1995 - 2000