Anna Sweet
Venture Partner at Makers Fund
Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2020 - Current
Bad Robot Games is passionate about telling stories and building worlds that can only be experienced through games.
Raised $40,000,000.00 from Horizons Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, Galaxy Interactive and Tencent.
Venture Partner
2020
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments.
Board Member
2023
Super Evil Megacorp is developing core games for tablet, mobile, and emerging platforms.
Raised $71,549,147.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, Jim Breyer, Korea Investment Partners, Crosscut Ventures, ZhenFund, Initial Capital, The Raine Group, Index Ventures, Signia Venture Partners and Yuri Milner.
Advisor
2019 - 2023
Genvid Holdings provides entertainment through traditional storytelling and interaction of video games.
Founder & Consultant
2018 - 2021
Robot Teddy specializes in consulting + strategic advising for companies focused in gaming, VR & AR. I work with teams of all sizes, across a variety of areas, including: -- Funding & Investment strategy -- Go to Market planning -- Platform & Publisher Relationship Management -- Advisory & Board Positions
Business | People | Operations
2019 - 2020
Gaming & Media Advisor
2019 - 2020
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
SVP Content & Community
2017 - 2019
Hired as the first non-engineering hire at an Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock backed start-up, aimed at disrupting the entertainment industry through next generation live and interactive entertainment. Grew the company from 12 to 70 in less than 18 months, including building out all initial partnerships, content, talent, community management, marketing, human resources, customer support, fraud, risk and legal functions. Helped hired and build a 7 person executive team. Lead the deal strategy & execution for a $100M series C investment, including strategic partnerships with Fox & Disney.
Head of Content & Developer Strategy
2015 - 2017
Led the platform & content strategy for the launch Facebook SocialVR, and Oculus Rift. Led investments in new types of content, building partnerships across the world-wide developer community in areas such as gaming, entertainment, education & social good. Built & managed a team of worldwide developer relations specialists and engineers, building a unified platform and on-going content strategy across multiple devices. Laid strategic groundwork for making virtual reality the place to be for the 1.5+ billion people on Facebook by creating a place for people to share their experiences and connect with each other in amazing and powerful new ways, enabling the creativity of developers and content creators around the world.
Oculus develops virtual reality platforms and products, including Rift, that let people experience anything, with anyone.
Raised $98,387,429.00 from Formation 8, Spark Capital, Matrix and Andreessen Horowitz.
Senior Product & Business Development Manager
2009 - 2015
Lead business strategy, product development and account management for the world's largest PC digital distribution platform - Steam. Grew the platform from 8 million users to 135+ million users in 6 years. Built & led world class business and partner account management team. Led content strategy & planning of HTC Vive reveal.
Valve is an American entertainment software and tech company developing video games and other related technologies.