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Spekter Games
United States
- San Francisco, CA
- 27/06/2025
- Pre-Seed
- $5,000,000
Spekter Games is a new type of game publisher blending Web2 and Web3 features to supercharge gaming for mainstream players.
Web3 can supercharge retention, monetization, and virality for games, but Web3 games have failed to attract mainstream gamers due to two key issues: friction in onboarding, and Web3 incentive designs that take the fun out of games.
To reduce friction, we are publishing our games on Telegram. Telegram is massive, and it reduces friction in distribution, payments, and wallet adoption for crypto assets.
At Spekter Games, we’re launching full-featured Web2 games on Telegram, starting with rogue-lite games. Our approach delivers top-tier gameplay that appeals to traditional gamers while keeping Web3 elements passive and seamless.
The future of gaming is on super apps, and Spekter Games is here to supercharge that experience.
We’re a new type of game publisher optimized for chat-based superapp backed by a16z speedrun.
- Industry Computer Games
- Website https://www.spekter.games/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/spektergames/
Related People
Taehoon KimFounder
United States -
San Francisco, California
Taehoon Kim (TK) is CEO, and founder of Spekter Games, a next-generation game publisher backed by a16z, pioneering the fusion of Web2 and Web3 mechanics to supercharge gaming for the mass market gamers. A seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years in the gaming industry, TK has successfully founded and exited multiple companies, including nWay, Pixelberry, and Nurien--and has raised over $100M in capital from top-tier VCs. At nWay, he led the development of real-time, cross-play multiplayer hits like Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Battlepalooza, nWayPlay, WWE: Undefeated, Olympic Games Jam, and Wreck League. Collectively these titles have amassed over 100 million downloads and countless more gaming sessions. nWay was acquired by Animoca Brands in 2020 where he stayed on for three years driving Web3 gaming initiatives and gaining firsthand exposure to hundreds of Web3 projects.
TK is also an advisor to various successful tech startups, including Random Games Company, Space Nation, SundayToz, Coffee meets Bagel, and Cloudgine. Early in his career, TK was part of Samsung Electronics' New Business Development team, where he worked as a product manager for their smartphone-based mobile gaming platform. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Master of Engineering degree in Operations Research and Information Engineering from Cornell University.
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