James Zhang
CEO at Concept Labs
James Zhang
CEO at Concept Labs
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2023 - Current
Concept Labs, Inc. is a next generation fan engagement and entertainment company focused on digital property ownership. Concept Labs is on a mission to connect world class brands to their fans through innovative and desirable digital goods that unlock unique fan experiences, while providing meaningful utility and great entertainment. Using Web3 technologies, Concept Lab’s fan engagement platform allows fans to own digital collectibles, earn rewards, and connect with other like-minded fans.
Founder
2007
Concept Art House (CAH) is an award winning, international art/creative services provider and game developer. Since the company's founding in 2007, CAH has been credited on over 500 game titles while working with almost every major game publisher/developer. Concept Art House creative talents are primarily focused on concept art, illustration, 3D art, and social/mobile game development. CAH works with a long list of who's who in gaming and digital entertainment with clients such as Activision, Blizzard, DeNA, Disney, Electronic Arts, Glu Mobile, Kabam, Hasbro, LucasArts, Machinezone, Riot Games, Pocket Gems, Supercell, and Zynga.
Founding Partner
2015
Blockchain Coinvestors - the leading blockchain venture fund of funds investing in the leading pure-play blockchain venture partnerships backing real companies with real businesses. www.blockchaincoinvestors.com
Investor and Advisor
2021
Project Galaxy is the largest Web3 credential data network in the world. Built on open and collaborative infrastructure, Project Galaxy helps developers and organizations leverage NFTs and digital credential data to build better products and communities in Web3.
Galxe is the leading Web3 credential data network in the world.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Unicode Digital, BluLive, Blockchain.com Ventures, Matrixport, Mirana, Smrti Lab, Multicoin Capital, Lattice Capital, The Spartan Group and Mask Network.
Investor and Advisor
2022
https://xter.io/ Xterio is a free-to-play-and-earn game developer and publisher founded by veterans of the game industry.
Investor and Advisor
2020
https://www.shrapnel.com/ Award-winning team building a AAA game built on blockchain for competitive play, creation and player ownership.
Shrapnel moddable extraction shooter game, built by a unique team of BAFTA & Emmy Award-winning talent, using UE5 & blockchain.
Raised $20,600,000.00 from Polychain, BH Digital, Griffin Gaming Partners and Monolith.
Investor and Advisor
2020
NEAR is a decentralized storage and compute platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of the Open Web in their hands.
Pagoda is a solution provider for developer entrepreneurs to build, launch, and operate a business on the blockchain.
Advisor
2021
Anthos partners with innovative consumer and technology companies shaping the future.
Investor and Advisor
2020
Intelligently organize, share, and collaborate on files and folders with your whole team. Making Cloud Storage beautiful.
Playbook develops a visual cloud storage platform to streamline and maintain control of creative assets.
Raised $22,000,000.00 from Bain Capital Ventures, Blank Ventures, Founders Fund, Elad Gil, Maple VC, Hyphen Capital and Abstract Ventures.
Investor and Advisory Board Member
2018
Keiretsu Capital Blockchain is the fund of funds to the world's leading Angel Network, Keiretsu Forum. Keiretsu Capital manages funds which enable limited partners to co-invest in the proprietary deal flow of the angel investors.
Keiretsu Capital provides access to proprietary deal flow to its investors.
Raised $3,600,000.00 from Keiretsu Forum and Puget Sound Venture Club.