Eden Chen
CEO of Pragma
Los Angeles, California
Overview
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.
Investor
2021
Education
BA
2005 - 2009