Abhishek Anand
I currently live in Bangalore and work at the intersection of AI and Gaming. Tinkering with AI agents and researching about embodied agents in virtual worlds.
2025
Joined Lossfunk as a resident and built Commons Bench - a new benchmark for evaluating cooperation and social intelligence in large language models.
2024
Exited Kratos Gaming in May. Worked on multiple small projects around fan economy, creator economy, vtubing and later joined as founding advisor at Hytopia who are building a modern UGC platform. Think Roblox in the style of Minecraft. We thereby raised $8mn via node sales and setup the publishing arm. Continue to help the team with growth and distribution efforts.
2023
Indigg subsequently went on to be acquired by Kratos gaming, started by ex-ceo of a public gaming company called Nazaara. Post acquisition, we moved Indigg to a community led model where we helped gaming studios acquire users through an on-chain gamer reputation and helped community to generate earnings by completing quests given by gaming studios. This was an inverse facebook model where studios would spend money to acquire relevant cohorts of users and a large part of the value capture (about 70%) would be distributed back to players who completed quests. Grew Kratos gaming from 0 to $2.5mn ARR.
2022
Gaming guild got acquhired by IndiGG. Led IndiGG and grew community from 0 to 1mn + gamers in Asia and an AUM of $5mn. Raised $6mn from the likes of Sequoia, Accel, Polygon, Brevan Howard, Lightspeed etc. Indigg was also a guild play where we would buy assets at preferential rates and then give it to scholars and generate capital returns from assets deployed.
2021
Exited ewards after I stumbled down the web3 rabbit hole. Started a gaming guild where we built a community of 50K active gamers and over ~$1mn in AUM. We would buy assets in web3 games and generate yield on them by renting them out to gamers from developing economies (most of the games were gated so you required assets to play the game). They would generate earnings which would be distributed between guild and player in 50-50 ratio. We helped over 10k gamers earn over $500k in 6 months.
2016 - 2020
Joined ewards founding team in 2016 where we built the leading marketing automation tool for enterprises to help them engage and retain their customers. Grew eWards from from 0 to 4000+ merchants over 4 years.