Abhishek Anand

Quit Kgen in May. Worked on multiple small projects simultaneously around fan economy, creator economy, vtubing and eventually joined as founding advisor at Hytopia which is building a modern UGC platform like Roblox/Minecraft. We thereby raised $8mn via node sales and continue to help the team to kickstart the demand and supply side networks and build network effects.

Indigg subsequently went on to be acquired by Kratos gaming, started by ex-ceo of a public gaming company called Nazaara where post acquisition, we turned Indigg into a community led model where we helped gaming studios acquire users through a universal gamer reputation and helped community to generate earnings by completing quests/tasks 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 tasks. Led investments, strategy and business for them and helped grow it from 0 to $2.5mn ARR.

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.

Quit ewards in 2021 beginning after I stumbled down the web3 rabbit hole. Started a gaming guild where we built a community of 50K active gamers in Phillipines and India 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 in South East Asia like Phillipines, Vietnam etc who would play games by renting these assets from us. (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.

Joined ewards founding team in 2016 where we built marketing automation tools for enterprises to help them engage and retain their customers. Led the growth team and boostrapped eWards from from 0 to 4000+ merchants over 4 years.