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What does Griffin Gaming Partners invest in?
Griffin Gaming Partners invests most often at Seed and Venture (63% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Media, Fitness and Videogame.
Griffin Gaming Partners highlights
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3 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 63% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 12 rounds, median $5.2M
What they do
Griffin is one of the world's leading venture funds focused exclusively on gaming, with $1.5 billion under management, investing at the intersection of content, social platforms, and software infrastructure.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $100K – $100M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- MediaFitnessVideogame
- Based in
- Santa Monica, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first51 appearances
- 2026
3 rounds
- Apr
- Mar
- Feb
- 2025
10 rounds
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- Apr
- Apr
- Mar
- Mar
- 2024
8 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- May
- Mar
- Feb
- Jan
- Jan
- Jan
- 2023
8 rounds
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Jul
- Apr
- Feb
- Jan
- 2022
16 rounds
- Nov
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration10 named
CBChristopher Brooks HollenbeckChief Compliance Officer/Chief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
FOFrankie Ojala-ZhuManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
FZFrankie ZhuManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
KAKevin A. ShieldsCo-Chief Executive OfficeriFiling they signed
NTNicholas TuostoManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
NTNick TuostoManaging Member of the ManageriFiling they signed
PYPeter York LevinManaging Member of the ManageriFiling they signed
PSPhil SandersonManaging Member of the ManageriFiling they signed
PNPhilip N SandersonManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
TBTim BenderManaging DirectoriFiling they signed
We also hold 25 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$1.3Bassets it managesOct 2026
2+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- GGP Management, L.P.
- SEC number
- CRD 310340
Funds on its Form ADV
11 private funds, $897M in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
- Griffin Gaming Partners II, L.P.Venture203 investors$546M
- Griffin Gaming Partners, L.P.Venture124 investors$267M
- Griffin Gaming Partners SIDE Fund, L.P.Venture3 investors$18M
- Griffin Gaming Partners II SIDE Fund, L.P.Venture2 investors$17M
- DRC SPVI LLCVenture9 investors$12M
- Monte Bello SPVI LLCVenture10 investors$11M
- Chateau Latour SPVI LLCVenture2 investors$9.0M
- Screaming Eagle SPVI LLCVenture8 investors$8.0M
- Harlan SPVI LLCVenture34 investors$6.3M
- Griffin Gaming Partners Associates, L.P.Venture3 investors$2.3M
And 1 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Griffin Gaming Partners's funds
- Committed
- $50M
- Funds
- 1
- Vintages
- 2025
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)1 fund$50M
Fund Vintage Committed Griffin Gaming Partners III 2025 $50M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
1 of 1 we have independently watched raise
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.