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Magicswap v2: Powering a New Category of Game Exchanges (GEX)
Talks about Magicswap, permissionless AMM and NFT trading
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Karel Vuong
Founder of Sam & Karel Vuong Foundation
Canada
Overview
Karel Vuong is the Co-Founder of Treasure, an innovative venture that focuses on making magic happen, with a strong background in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and strategic partnerships. His career highlights include founding the Sam & Karel Vuong Foundation and investing in companies such as Delegate and Satsuma at the seed stage.
Work Experience
Founder
2025 - Current
Advisor & Board Observer
2023
Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from RockawayX, Offchain Labs, King River Capital, Anthos Capital, Play Ventures, Caballeros Capital, Gam3Girl Ventures, BITKRAFT Ventures and Zentry.
Investor
2022
Early cheques in Delegate, Helika, Espresso, Satsuma (acq. by Alchemy), Arclight / AcadArena, and others
Co-Founder
2018
Co-Founder & Active Contributor
2022 - 2025
Core Contributor
2021 - 2022
Senior Associate
2020 - 2022
Wore many hats during my tenure at Sagard as an early employee and Chief of Staff to the CEO, Paul Desmarais III. Departed at $14B AUM and 250+ employees.
Chief of Staff, CEO
2019 - 2020
Sagard is a multi-strategy alternative asset manager building great businesses through capital, culture, and network.
Raised $500,000,000.00 from ADQ and Bank of Montreal.
Senior Associate
2020 - 2022
Chief of Staff, Executive Chairman
2019 - 2020
Associate
2018 - 2019
GM
2016 - 2019
Employee #1 and early member incubating Dialogue (TSX:CARE; CA$100M IPO), Collage (acq. by People Corp), Breathe Life (acq. by SE2), and StreamingFast (ex-dfuse; received CA$75M grant from The Graph).
Founding Member
2016 - 2018
From idea to acquisition in 3 years (People Corporation; November 2019)
Founding Member
2016 - 2018
From idea to IPO in 5 years - TSX:CARE (March 2021)