
The future
isn't waiting
for permission.
We back the people building tomorrow's interactive entertainment. Games, AI, AR, Web3, and the live communities that connect them.
$400M+
Products launched, concept → scale
$2B
Revenue navigated as operators
Games · Mobile · Artificial Intelligence · AR / VR · Web3 · Live Operations
Numbers we earned. Not managed. Earned.
/02 . Proof
Two decades of shipping the things investors usually only talk about.
$1.5B
Sale of WMS Gaming to Scientific Games. Co-stewarded by our team.
20yrs
In games, marketing, and platforms. Across console, mobile, social, and live.
Annual R&D portfolios directed across multi-billion-dollar businesses.
$340M
Active portfolio companies in games, AI, AR, and creator infrastructure.
7+
We bet on edges. We've lived on them.
/03 . Thesis
Most advisors have opinions. We have a body of work. Twenty years across the full lifecycle. Products shipped, businesses scaled, some sold, some still running, a few that taught us more than the wins did. Now we put that work behind the people building What's Next.
/01 . Belief
Tech serves humans, not the other way around.
Every product we back has to answer one question first: what does this make people feel?
/02 . Belief
Operators make the best investors.
We've launched, scaled, and sold the kind of businesses we now back. The advice is muscle memory, not theory.
/03 . Belief
The next platform is already here.
It just isn't evenly distributed yet. We invest where games, AI, and live communities collide.
/04 . How we work
We invest time before we invest capital.
Every engagement starts the same way. We get close to the work. Game design, product strategy, go-to-market, live ops. If we see something worth backing with capital, we go deeper. If not, you still walk away with senior operator attention that most firms charge fund fees for.
as
operators & partners
We roll up sleeves.
Fractional, project, or retainer. Corporate strategy, product management, game design, live ops, AI transformation, go-to-market, executive sparring.
investors
as
We write checks.
Pre-seed through Series B. $250K to $2M. We only back what we'd build ourselves.
/05 . What we do
Where we get our hands dirty.
Future Impacting Investments
/01
Corporate Product Strategy
/02
Game Design & Live Ops
/03
Agentic Transformation
/04
Go-To-Market & Growth
/05
Community & Creator Stacks
/06
/06 . Portfolio
Things we're into.
AI · MULTI-AGENT · NEW 2026
Artificial Intelligent social simulator
Investment. Stealth. Multiple AI. Social Physics Simulations Platform and Product.
AI · ENGAGEMENT
Agentic player-support stack
Stealth. Multiple AI. Social Physics Simulations Platform and Product.
GAMES · AAA
Live Service action RPG in stealth
Product advisory · 2024+
GAMES · DIGITAL
Social & Web3 Gaming
Investment + Product advisory · 2024+
GAMES · CASUAL
Hybrid casual game studio
Investment + Prod Strategy · 2024+
People we've built with.
Senior engagements, active partnerships, and companies where we had skin in the game.










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© 2026 What's Next Digital · Los Angeles, CA