In June 2023, at the Hypergames Summit, our Managing Partner Erdem Mümtaz Hacıpaşaoğlu joined the panel “Show me the money — Let’s talk about investing in games” alongside leading figures in gaming investment.
The central thesis of the panel was clear: investing in game ventures is a discipline that — unlike classical tech investing — requires the simultaneous management of intellectual property, user economies, and platform-dependency layers.
Panelists
Moderated by Erdem Can Tüzün, the panel featured Mümtaz alongside Ekin “Maestro” Odacıoğlu (NERF IT), Saltukhan Gulsen (WePlay), and Can Gök (Parma Games).
Legal layers in gaming investment
Mümtaz mapped the legal layers behind every gaming investment decision: IP ownership and licensing rights, the classification of user-generated content, the consumer-law status of in-game economies, dependency risk in platform agreements, and the jurisdiction choice of game studios.
Investor perspective
The other panelists addressed portfolio thesis, team assessment, the prototype-to-pre-launch transition, and divergences across mobile, PC and Web3 gaming markets from an investor’s vantage point.
Highlights from this panel
- IP and licensing: Ownership, transfer, user creation
- In-game economy: Position under consumer law
- Platforms: Agreements and dependency risk
- Investor lens: Portfolio thesis, team assessment
You can watch the full panel on YouTube.
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