Chris Kurdziel
Contributor at GAME7
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2022 - Current
Contributor
2022
Game7 is a sub-DAO of BITDAO - it consists of a $500M treasury managed and deployed by the community to accelerate progress in crypto and gaming.
Mentor
2015
Partner
2022 - 2023
Mirana is a cross-stage crypto VC that invests in entrepreneurs, projects, and other venture funds with check sizes ranging from $250k to $50M. I led the fund's application layer investments in gaming and web3.
Venture Partner
2017 - 2022
Joyance Partners is a $20M+ venture capital partnership that invests in companies with the capacity to deliver, or contribute to the delivery of, delightful moments. I advise on new consumer, crypto/web3, and immersive computing/media investments for the fund. Relevant companies: The Block, Medal.tv, Supermedium and others
We invest in companies that use science and technology to cultivate joy and improve how we live.
Principal, Ventures
2019 - 2020
Led Samsung's early stage investment focus on gaming, crypto, and immersive technology via a $150M early stage venture capital vehicle. I was fortunate to invest in and work with companies like Medal.tv, Eternal, Forte, PlayVS, Dapper Labs, Spatial and more during my time at Samsung.
Samsung NEXT invests in transformative seed-stage software and services startups.
Director of Product, OTT
2016 - 2019
Vimeo OTT (formerly VHX) makes it easy for creators to offer their own video subscription service directly to audiences on any platform around the globe. We provide video infrastructure, backend APIs all the way to consumer app experiences across mobile and TV. After VHX's acquisition, I led the OTT product team from the addition of our first enterprise customers and through a period of hyper-growth (10x revenue and user growth) during which Vimeo OTT was the fastest growing business inside Vimeo.
Cameo is an app that allows you to edit and share cinematic videos on your mobile phone.
Director of Product
2016 - 2017
Joined the team as the first PM taking the reins from the founders at the time the company launched its first subscription offerings.
VHX is a video distribution platform built to share, discover, and watch videos for everyone.
Raised $16,250,000.00 from Comcast Ventures and Initialized Capital.
Group Product Manager
2014 - 2015
Joined Samsung via acquisition to build next-gen TV experiences for Samsung's Smart TV platform, including custom open-source Android based hardware, connected home integrations and cloud services. I helped grow the team from 25 to over 90 (including the addition of 5 PMs) and led product efforts for Samsung's TV SDK with leading OTT and MVPD partners.
The main role of GSG is to enhance Samsung’s business performance and global reach, while simultaneously developing a pool of talented
Product Lead
2011 - 2014
At Shelby, we built the social video graph and along with it, consumer video discovery apps to help users discover the best video from all over the web on their TV/mobile devices. We tracked hundreds of millions of pieces of social data across millions of different videos and used these to deliver serendipitous and delightful video recommendations to our users. I led the product team, growth/marketing efforts and did a little bit of everything else.
Shelby TV takes videos from across the web and organizes them based on the user's preference.
Raised $3,818,000.00 from Michael Lazerow, Avalon Ventures, Jerry Colonna, Dave Morgan and Draper Associates.