About “Building Virtual Worlds”

Inspired by the late educator and computer scientist Randy Pausch’s Building Virtual Worlds class at Carnegie Mellon University, this newsletter seeks to explore the future of gaming and human-computer interaction.

About TIRTA Ventures

TIRTA Ventures (“TIRTA”) is a VC firm based in New York City and focused on the interactive entertainment industry. TIRTA was founded by Ben Feder (former CEO of Take-Two Interactive, former President of Int’l Partnerships at Tencent Games) and Justin Yuan (formerly led the North America investment team at Tencent Games).

TIRTA invests across content (studios), infrastructure/technology, and platforms that support the broader gaming ecosystem. We seek to bring our decades of operational experience in the gaming industry to our portfolio companies.

For more information, please visit our website (under construction).

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Justin Yuan

@virtualworlds

Justin is a partner at TIRTA Ventures, a VC fund focused on the future of interactive entertainment. A former video game modder, Justin previously led the North America investment team at Tencent Games, the world's largest video game publisher.

Clea Chen

Investing in the future of interactive entertainment at TIRTA Ventures; Running the Cypher Accelerator for the Wharton School; Representing Ernest Zacharevic on the NFT collection; Also finishing up my 2nd year Wharton MBA.