We back founders buildingPersistent Play.
Six behaviours. One operating model.
Six behaviours have held constant throughout history; only the form factor changed. Producing, consuming, playing, belonging, buying and creating have collapsed into a single investment category. We call it Persistent Play.
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Brand rewards, stores and commerce built directly into mobile apps.
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An affordable handheld console with its own operating layer.
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A publisher taking culturally original indie games global.
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The live-ops team that keeps games earning after launch.
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A global marketplace for game keys and digital goods.
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A studio reimagining culturally familiar games for a modern audience.
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Console-quality competitive games that run in a browser tab.
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A studio testing what people will pay for, then building it fast.
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The social platform built for anime and manga fandom.
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We invest in Persistent Play: consumer products people operate every day. It spans six behaviours (productivity, consumption, play, belonging, transact and create) and the infrastructure that runs them, from retention loops to virtual economies and live operations.
Chimera invests at the pre-seed and seed stages, often as a company's first institutional investor and frequently establishing a relationship with a team well before a formal round takes shape.
Chimera works alongside founders on the priorities that matter most in the near term: senior hiring, preparation for the next round, go-to-market, and distribution.
Founders spend months building alongside us before there is ever a deck to read. We see the work up close and get to know the team first-hand. By the time a round exists, we have already been working together for long.
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