Pylon Partners invests, operates, and advises at the frontier of digital assets. We deploy proprietary capital, provide financing to founders and family offices, and advise on commercial growth, marketing, and tokenisation.
View Portfolio →The best entries come before the category has a name. We back where the strongest developers concentrate, ahead of institutional capital, while price still reflects uncertainty, not consensus.
The book spans gaming infrastructure, digital assets, fan economies, decentralised AI, and Asia consumer, most of it entered before the sector had institutional buyers. That is where the asymmetry sits.
What follows is the public record, name by name, year by year.
“Pylon has been an important strategic partner since our launch. They sharpen our focus and get in the trenches with us to execute. Simply put, they’re the best at what they do.”
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Animoca BrandsInvestment | 2021 | The largest Web3 gaming conglomerate, entered pre-Series B before on-chain gaming had institutional buyers. | |
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B3Advisory | 2025 | Onchain consumer economy from the ex-Coinbase Base team. Building the rails for agentic commerce across Labs, Protocol, and Investments. | |
| BetMakersInvestment | 2021 | B2B wagering infrastructure for global sportsbooks as sports betting legalised worldwide. ASX-listed. | ||
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CastileAdvisory | 2024 | ByteDance’s gaming distribution playbook applied to Web3, led by their former Head of Gaming Publishing. | |
| ChilizAdvisory | 2025 | Fan rewards platform for top sports teams including FC Barcelona, PSG, and Manchester City. | ||
| FableborneAdvisory | 2023 | Mobile RPG led by ex-Konami and Jagex executives. | ||
| KhalaInvestment | 2025 | Research platform covering decentralised AI and digital assets for executives. Followed by 90,000+ subscribers. | ||
| LykaInvestment | 2022 | Australia’s leading D2C pet food brand, compounding fresh nutrition and owned distribution against legacy CPG. | LGVPLGVP |
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| ManakoInvestment | 2026 | Computer vision R&D lab focused on mass-market consumer applications. | ||
| Mythical GamesAdvisory | 2025 | AAA mobile gaming on-chain. NFL Rivals, MLB Champions, Blankos. Founded by ex-Activision and Yahoo executives, building true ownership for mainstream mobile titles. | ||
| OasysAdvisory | 2022 | Asia’s gaming blockchain, backed by SEGA, Bandai Namco, and Ubisoft. | SBI Holdings |
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| RedactedInvestment | 2026 | Mobile game studio servicing real-money titles for one of the world’s largest land-based casino operators. Bridging legacy casino IP into mobile under an undisclosed counterparty. | —Undisclosed |
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| SAIInvestment | 2024 | Reinforcement learning training platform for Sim2Real applications, from gaming to robotics. | ||
| SonicAdvisory | 2024 | The highest-throughput L1 in production, led by Andre Cronje and the team behind Fantom. | ||
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SuperGamingAdvisory | 2025 | India’s leading mobile game studio. Builders of Indus Battle Royale, the first AAA Indian-developed BR. Studio infrastructure for the next billion mobile gamers. | |
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TAO InstituteInvestment | 2025 | Independent Bittensor subnet ratings agency. Risk scoring framework across 60+ active subnets. | |
| TreasureInvestment | 2022 | On-chain gaming IP and collectibles, entered before the category had institutional buyers or price discovery. |
The thesis goes on the record before the capital does, so you can see exactly what we believed and when.
We called Bittensor before $TAO crossed a $100M market cap, and flagged $VIRTUALS and the agentic economy before either had institutional coverage. The archive runs to 2022, all of it public.
Conviction compounds when the timestamps are honest.
The structural case for Bittensor as the settlement layer for machine intelligence. Enterprise contracts, fiat revenue, and incoming institutional capital form the flywheel.
The HTTP extension, backed by Coinbase and Cloudflare, defining how AI agents pay at scale. A quiet primitive with outsized implications for autonomous systems.
Where physical automation meets programmable coordination, and what it means for capital allocation. Hardware-adjacent networks are the next frontier for decentralised infrastructure.
A scoring framework for Bittensor subnet deregistration risk. Signal architecture, weighting, and backtests across 60+ live subnets show predictive power.
Chiliz’s US re-entry playbook: NASDAQ DAT, NBA/NFL fan token pipeline, and a $50–100M Digital Asset Treasury modelled on AVAX ONE. The structural thesis positions $CHZ as the definitive sports RWA settlement layer.
VanEck identifies Immutable as the dominant gaming blockchain by end of 2024, citing developer traction and ecosystem depth. Institutional-grade infrastructure positions IMX for sustained market leadership.
We built before we invested. Token foundation strategy at IMX, fan token rollouts across eighty-plus clubs at Chiliz, the CMO seat at an a16z-backed studio, consumer private equity across Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. That record is how we underwrite.
We sit alongside founders, not above them. Dealflow comes through operator networks built over a decade, not inbound forms. Fableborne, Castile, and Bittensor all reached us that way, early.
We back operators who compound over ten years, not one cycle.
Jack began in private equity across APAC, then led strategy for the $IMX Token Foundation through the launch of crypto’s #1 gaming token. He has worked both sides, allocator and operator, and that dual lens shapes how Pylon underwrites today.
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0xDith led Stripe’s GTM across the Middle East and North Africa, then was CMO of Proof of Play, an a16z-backed gaming company. Today he runs one of the most popular game studios in the world.
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0xSammy is the most-followed researcher across crypto and AI, calling $VIRTUALS and $TAO before mass adoption. He reaches a 100,000+ audience daily, and the timestamped record is fully public.
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