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Dennis Fong

Founder of Forge

Burlingame, California

Overview 

Dennis Fong is the Founder and CEO of GGWP, an AI-powered digital safety platform, and a Venture Partner at BITKRAFT. He is a 5x founder with significant experience in the gaming and tech industry, known as the first professional gamer and has invested in companies like Avalon and Lightforge Games. Fong's career highlights include founding successful companies like Raptr and Lithium Technologies, as well as being a key figure in the gaming industry as the first pro gamer. Currently, he is leading GGWP and making strategic investments in promising startups through BITKRAFT Ventures.

Work Experience 

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GGWP

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2020 - Current

    GGWP is an AI-powered digital safety platform. We're trusted by iconic brands such as Unity, Thatgamecompany, Dreamhaven, Fatshark, and dozens of others. Backed by Bitkraft, Makers Fund, Griffin Gaming Partners, Riot Games, Sony, Samsung, SK Telecom, and more.

GGWP provides a gaming tool to help reduce toxic and disruptive in the game.

Raised $22,000,000.00 from Samsung Ventures and SK Telecom Ventures.

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Forge

  • Co-Founder

    2023

Social identity and rewards for gamers

Raised $11,000,000.00 from Shan kumar, AP Collective, Ava Labs, Dingaling ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎, Chris Wang, Sui Foundation, James Zhang, Animoca Brands, BITKRAFT Ventures and HashKey Capital.

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BITKRAFT Ventures

  • Venture Partner

    2021

    BITKRAFT Ventures is a gaming-focused venture capital fund with over $1B in assets under management.

Various

  • Angel / Advisor

    2011

    A few select recent investments: Believer, f.inc, Raid Base, Pragma, Liminal, Yield Guild ($YGG), Shrapnel, Lootex, Avalon, Defi Alliance, Animoca Brands, MetaTheory, Brightstar Studios (Ember Sword), Superlayer.io, Immutable X ($IMX $GOG), Concept Art House, Cryptoslam!, Highstreet ($HIGH), Forte.io, Mythical Games, Rally.io ($RLY), Jadu, Acad Arena, Metagood, Theta Labs ($THETA), Oooh, Bonfire Studios, AKA Virtual, Gen.G, TravelBank (acq by US Bank), FCF.io (Fan Controlled Football League), Hypixel Studios (acq by Riot Games), Gamma (acq by Animoca)

Raptr / Plays

  • Co-Founder

    2007 - 2018

    Raptr unlocks the full gaming potential of your PC by making the experience fast, beautiful, and hassle-free reaching over 100M users. Backed by Accel Partners and Founders Fund. Acquired by Take-Two Interactive.

Lithium Technologies

  • Co-Founder

    1999 - 2010

    Lithium makes social software that helps the world's best brands build trusted relationships with their customers. Backed by Benchmark Capital, NEA, and Shasta Ventures. Acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2017.

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Xfire, part of MTV Networks

  • Co-Founder

    2002 - 2006

    Xfire was a chat client built for gamers. We invented in-game overlays, friends lists where you can see what your friends are playing, one-click join, gamer profiles, and more. Backed by Granite Global Ventures, DFJ, and NEA. Acquired by MTV/Viacom in 2006.

Xfire provides social gaming and networking services, shares in-game screen shots and videos, and live-streams gameplay.

Raised $19,500,000.00 from IDM Venture Capital, Kamran Pourzanjani, Michael Robertson, William Quigley, Intel Capital, Jim Armstrong and TomorrowVentures.

xfire.com

Gamers.com

  • Co-Founder

    1996 - 1999

    Social platform where users could create their own communities. #1 games portal as rated by Nielsen.

Investments 

Avalon

Seed

Total funding: $13M

Neon Media

Initial Coin Offering

Total funding: $49M

Lightforge Games

Series A

Total funding: $15M

CryptoSlam

Seed

Total funding: $9M

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