Todd Hooper
Investor & entrepreneur
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2021 - Current
Working with one of the most successful early stage funds on gaming, AI, dev tools and related investments at the pre-seed and seed stage.
Acequia Capital is a tech-focused fund that began in Seattle.
Advisor
2023
AI-Powered development at the Edge.
AI-Powered development at the Edge
Raised $16,450,000.00 from Shield Capital, Fulcrum Venture Accelerator, Underdog Labs and J2 Ventures.
Advisor
2023
Building the next generation of virtual pets in mixed reality.
Windup Minds is a game studio focused on creating VR and MR virtual pet experiences.
Raised $3,205,000.00 from James Gwertzman, The Venture Reality Fund/VRF, Acequia Capital (AceCap), Nate Mitchell, Tom Sanocki, Anthony Batt, Greg Essig, Eden Chen and New Leaf Ventures.
Advisor
2023
Creating the most novel and engaging multiplayer experiences in games.
CEO and Founder
2015 - 2020
Vreal’s mission is to revolutionize gaming content by making fans part of the action, delivering a fun, immersive experience inside the games and content that audiences want to watch. Although we were way too early and consumer VR didn't evolve the way we had hoped, I had an incredible time riding the rollercoaster with an amazing team, learning so much and making friends for life along the way. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat.
VP Online Services
2013 - 2015
Unity is the world's leading game content development platform, used by more than 2.5 million developers, from the largest global publishers to the smallest studios and indie developers. I joined Unity's executive team to lead the companies expansion into online services for game developers, providing new ways for the Unity developer community to create, distribute and operate games, and continuing Unity's mission of democratizing game development. I founded and grew Unity's first US based engineering teams in Seattle, San Francisco and Austin. My teams created Unity Cloud Build, Analytics, Team Collaborate, Cloud Diagnostics, IAP and more.
Unity for Humanity Grant program offers funding, mentorship, and technical support for real-time 3D social impact projects.
Advisor
2010 - 2013
OfferUp provides an online and mobile C2C marketplace app for people to buy and sell electronics, furniture, and cars.
Raised $380,985,067.00 from Pobts, Andreessen Horowitz and Warburg Pincus.
CEO and Founder
2010 - 2012
Zipline is the creator of Moai, an open source game engine and cloud service used by top studios including Bungie, Double Fine, Paradox and many more to deliver chart topping games for mobile, desktop and browser platforms. In addition to creating Moai, Zipline's own casual games have been enjoyed by millions of players.
Advisor
2010 - 2012
Acquired by Rapid7.
CEO and Founder
2006 - 2010
Founded Napera with colleagues from WatchGuard to drive innovation in enterprise networking with a revolutionary appliance and cloud service. Acquired by OPSWAT Inc and now available as OPSWAT Metadefender.