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Eden Chen

CEO of Pragma

Los Angeles, California

Overview 

Eden Chen is the CEO of Pragma, a backend game engine, and an active investor and advisor to various game makers. He hosts The Gaming Founders Podcast, showcasing his expertise and connections within the gaming industry, and has made strategic investments in companies like Kaedim and Popularium, contributing significantly to the growth of emerging game development ventures.

Work Experience 

  • Founder / CEO

    2019 - Current

    Pragma is a fully scalable and extensible backend game engine that enables live service games. Our platform is made up of 5 interconnected applications: cross platform accounts & social, monetization, player data & meta game, telemetry & analytics, and matchmaking. Pragma is built by engineering leaders that built platforms for some of the largest live service games like League of Legends, Valorant, Destiny 2, Plants vs Zombies 2, and Eve Online. Pragma is supporting studios like People Can Fly, Elodie, Mountaintop, Frost Giant, Lightforge, Free Range Games, and Wonderstorm. Backed by Greylock, Insight Partners, and Upfront.

Pragma is a backend game engine that enables multiplayer and social games.

Raised $38,200,000.00 from Kevin Lin, Greylock, Overwolf, Advancit Capital, Ted Gill, Daher Capital, Insight Partners and Upfront Ventures.

  • Scout

    2023

    Investing in games + games adjacent.

Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.

  • Investor

    2023

  • Investor

    2022

  • Advisor

    2022

Hypemasters (est.2019) is a game development studio with a globally distributed team. Our mission is to create legendary gaming experiences.

Raised $3,250,000.00 from The Games Fund, Ludus and GEM Capital.

  • Investor

    2022

Lightforge Games is a new, all-remote studio of industry veterans on a quest to change how the world plays RPGs.

Raised $20,010,000.00 from Dune Ventures, Kristian Segerstrale, Sheri Bryant, Kevin Lin, Galaxy Interactive, Dennis Fong, Ryan Wyatt, BITKRAFT Ventures, XRM Media and Holly Liu.

  • Investor

    2022

Inworld AI is a character engine for creating AI NPCs in games and interactive experiences.

Raised $125,700,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dentsu Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, First Spark Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Stanford University, XRM Media and M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund.

  • Investor

    2021

Faraway makes hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies.

Raised $29,000,000.00 from NxGen.xyz.

  • Investor

    2021

Omni Creator Products empower every player to become a creator.

Raised $20,550,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz.

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