Investors & Partners at 1Up Ventures

Ed Fries

General Partner, 1Up Ventures

Ed Fries spent decades creating games at Microsoft Game Studios and co-founding Xbox before becoming an investor, giving him unusually deep understanding of game development compared to typical finance-background VCs. At 1Up Ventures, he makes many small checks into around 50 game studios per fund to create a tight founder community that shares knowledge, while focusing exclusively on companies that make and sell games rather than tools or infrastructure.