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Announcing Patron Fund II
We’re excited to announce Patron Fund II, a $100M seed-stage fund supporting founders building for the next generation of consumers. This new fund is shaped by our experience as early builders and investors at Andreessen Horowitz, Riot Games, and Discord, along with insights from the past three years since launching our first fund. Our journey... Read More
Discord: A Founder’s Guide New
Founders often come to us to take advantage of our combined gaming and consumer expertise. Particularly focusing on how to tap into Discord’s vast and engaged user base. Today, Discord is used by ~200 million people every month. Over the next decade, we think this number will grow substantially as another billion people start playing... Read More
Our Investment in Arya New
Today, we are excited to announce that we have co-led the seed round for Arya, the AI-powered concierge platform reimagining wellness, starting with couples’ intimacy. Arya arrives at a critical moment when many couples are seeking support in their relationships. In the US, of the approximately 130 million couples, 25% admit to cheating, and 40%... Read More
Mastering the Rewards Game with Kudos
Credit card rewards represent a global phenomenon played by hundreds of millions of consumers daily. 77% of U.S. adults have at least one credit card, with the average American holding 3.84 cards. It’s also a booming segment – a recent CFPB report found that consumers earned $40bn in credit card rewards in 2022, a 50%... Read More
We’re leading the Seed round in Altera New
As an investor, it’s a rare occasion to encounter a startup demo that hints at a true paradigm shift in how humans interact with computers. Games have long served as fertile ground for testing emerging technologies, acting as a gateway for mass consumer adoption—from the early days of personal computing to the ubiquity of smartphones... Read More
How to Make Your Product Feel Like a Game New
Over the past 10 years, some of the largest outcomes in consumer tech have involved companies whose products feel like games. From Chime to DuoLingo, startups that make tasks that were previously boring or hard, like online banking or learning a new language, feel less like work and more like play are winning. Best in... Read More
Consumer Technology in 2024
At Patron, we strive to back founders revolutionizing the games and consumer sectors. Our background spans across Riot Games and Discord, two companies that started out building for gamers, but expanded into broad consumer success stories. They now impact hundreds of millions of people around the world on a daily basis. Three key trends are... Read More
Why it’s no longer enough to have 1,000 true fans.
Kevin Kelly’s seminal essay was written over 15 years ago, and for a long time it’s held true. There’s no doubt that it has helped many founders transform online communities into large scale businesses, and provided many creators with a reliable income stream. But everything has changed. Thanks to TikTok, you’re more likely to be sold... Read More
Personal fitness journey
One of Patron‘s core inspirations is the belief that video games can serve as a force for good in the world, catalyzing positive transformations in people’s lives. As for my personal journey — while I’ve always loved games, I was far from being healthy or fit. By my late 30s, seven years of weekly work... Read More
Finding the Magic Moment in Consumer Social Apps
One of the secrets I learned whilst leading growth at Discord, is how to turn more users into power users. It starts with finding the magic moment. But what is a magic moment? It’s the moment in your user’s journey where they understand the value of your product for the first time. For a company... Read More