James Gwertzman - CEO @ Mudstack - Crunchbase Person Profile

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Overview

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Primary Job Title CEO
Primary Organization
Mudstack

Location Seattle, Washington, United States
Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US
Gender Male

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James Gwertzman is the current CEO of Mudstack. He previously worked at Microsoft as a General Manager. James Gwertzman attended Harvard University.

Personal Investments

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investments. Their latest investment was

Pre Seed Round - Windup Minds

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Windup Minds	—	Pre Seed Round - Windup Minds	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	LootLocker	—	Seed Round - LootLocker	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Ramen VR	—	Series B - Ramen VR	obfuscated obfuscation

Partner Investments

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Announced Date	Organization Name	Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round	Money Raised
obfuscated obfuscation	Regression Games	Andreessen Horowitz	—	Seed Round - Regression Games	obfuscated obfuscation
obfuscated obfuscation	Lumi Interactive	Andreessen Horowitz	Yes	Seed Round - Lumi Interactive	obfuscated obfuscation

Jobs

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James Gwertzman

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current jobs as

CEO

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General Partner

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Andreessen Horowitz

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James Gwertzman

has had

past jobs including

General Manager, Gaming Vertical

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Mudstack CEOMay 2024
Andreessen Horowitz General PartnerDec 2021

Organization Name	Title At Company	Start Date	End Date
Microsoft	General Manager, Gaming Vertical	Jun 2020	Dec 2021
Microsoft	General Manager, PlayFab	Jul 2019	Jun 2020
Microsoft	Chief Strategy Officer, PlayFab	Feb 2018	Jul 2019
PlayFab	CEO & Co-Founder	Jan 2014	Feb 2018
Code.org	Chief Evangelist	Jul 1, 2013	Jan 2014
Popcap Games	Head of Strategic Development	Jan 2013	Jun 2013
Popcap Games	Vice President, Asia/Pacific	Jun 2007	Aug 2011
Popcap Games	Director of Business Development	Jun 2005	Jun 2007
Sprout Games, LLC	Managing Director/ Co-Founder	Jun 2003	Jun 2005
Escape Factory	Co-Founder & CEO	Aug 2000	Jun 2003

Related Hubs

Hub Name	CB Rank (Hub)
Digital Entertainment Seed Stage Companies With More Than $1M in Revenue	85,558
Enterprise Software Seed Stage Companies With Less Than $500M in Revenue	57,401
CareerBuilder Alumni Founded Companies	94,106
Gaming Seed Stage Companies With Less Than $1B in Revenue	59,506
Enterprise Software Seed Stage Companies With Fewer Than 50 Employees	16,552
Digital Entertainment Seed Stage Companies With Fewer Than 50 Employees	59,864
United States Digital Media Companies with Seed Funding	73,529
United States Seed Stage Companies With Less Than $500M in Revenue (Top 10K)	7,042
Software Seed Stage Companies With Fewer Than 100 Employees (Top 10K)	5,034
Digital Entertainment Companies with Seed Funding	54,356

Education

James Gwertzman

studied at

Harvard University

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Harvard University A.B.Computer Science19911995

Events

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James Gwertzman

has participated in

events. They most recently attended, or will attend,

Game Developers Conference - GDC 2016

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Mar 14, 2016

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Game Developers Conference - GDC 2016 Speaker San Francisco, California, United States, North AmericaMar 14, 2016
Game Developers Conference - GDC 2015 Speaker San Francisco, California, United States, North AmericaMar 2, 2015

Recent News and Activity

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Funding Round•

Aug 7, 2023

Windup Minds raised

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from Acequia Capital (AceCap) and 8 other investors

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May 11, 2022

LootLocker raised

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from Acequia Capital (AceCap) and 6 other investors

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Mar 17, 2022

Ramen VR raised

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from Andrew Chen and 2 other investors

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