Identifying
Generational Companies.

Pylon Partners is a diversified operating company providing advisory and alternative financing solutions for founders, high net worth individuals, and family offices. Pylon serves prominent firms on all aspects of commercial growth, marketing strategy, and tokenisation.

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Select Companies
and Investments.

The best entries come before the category has a name. We watch where the strongest developers concentrate effort, identify the infrastructure plays before institutional capital sees the thesis, and move while the price still reflects uncertainty rather than consensus.

The portfolio runs from gaming infrastructure and digital assets to fan economies, decentralised AI, and Asia consumer. Most of these positions were taken before their sectors had institutional buyers, which is where the asymmetry lives.

What follows is the public record, name by name and year by year.

“Pylon has been an important strategic partner since our launch. They sharpen our focus and get in the trenches with us to execute. Simply put, they’re the best at what they do.”

Wei XieCOO, NRN Agents
CompanyYearOverviewCo-investors
Animoca BrandsInvestment 2021 The largest Web3 gaming conglomerate, entered pre-Series B before on-chain gaming had institutional buyers.
Sequoia
B3Advisory 2025 Onchain consumer economy built by the ex-Coinbase Base team. Three engines: Labs, Protocol, Investments. Architecting the rails for agentic commerce.
Coinbase Ventures
BetMakersInvestment 2021 B2B wagering infrastructure for global sportsbooks as sports betting legalised worldwide. ASX-listed.
Tekkorp
CastileAdvisory 2024 ByteDance’s gaming distribution playbook applied to Web3, led by their former Head of Gaming Publishing.
OKX Ventures
ChilizAdvisory 2025 Fan rewards platform for top sports teams including FC Barcelona, PSG, and Manchester City.
Binance
FableborneAdvisory 2023 Mobile RPG led by ex-Konami and Jagex executives.
Delphi Digital
KhalaInvestment 2025 Research platform covering decentralised AI and digital assets for executives. Followed by 90,000+ subscribers.
0xSammy
LykaInvestment 2022 Australia’s leading D2C pet food brand, compounding fresh nutrition and owned distribution against legacy CPG.
LGVPLGVP
ManakoInvestment 2026 Computer vision R&D lab focused on mass-market consumer applications.
Unsupervised
Mythical GamesAdvisory 2025 AAA mobile gaming on-chain. NFL Rivals, MLB Champions, Blankos. Founded by ex-Activision and Yahoo executives, building true ownership for mainstream mobile titles.
a16z
OasysAdvisory 2022 Asia’s gaming blockchain, backed by SEGA, Bandai Namco, and Ubisoft.
SBI Holdings
RedactedInvestment 2026 Mobile game studio servicing real-money titles for one of the world’s largest land-based casino operators. Bridging legacy casino IP into mobile under an undisclosed counterparty.
Undisclosed
SAIInvestment 2024 Reinforcement learning training platform for Sim2Real applications, from gaming to robotics.
Paradigm
SonicAdvisory 2024 The highest-throughput L1 in production, led by Andre Cronje and the team behind Fantom.
Galaxy Digital
SuperGamingAdvisory 2025 India’s leading mobile game studio. Builders of Indus Battle Royale, the first AAA Indian-developed BR. Studio infrastructure for the next billion mobile gamers.
a16z
TAO InstituteInvestment 2025 Independent Bittensor subnet ratings agency. Risk scoring framework across 60+ active subnets.
0xSammy
TreasureInvestment 2022 On-chain gaming IP and collectibles, entered before the category had institutional buyers or price discovery.
1kx
Select positions as of April 2026. Deploying proprietary capital since 2022.

We publish
before we invest.

We publish the thesis before we put capital behind it. If the call is on the record and the entry follows, you can see exactly what we believed and when.

We called Bittensor before $TAO crossed $100 million in market cap. We flagged $VIRTUALS and the agentic economy before either had institutional coverage. The archive runs back to 2022 and every piece is still public.

Conviction compounds when the timestamps are honest.

Bittensor: The Intelligence Olympics

The structural case for Bittensor as the settlement layer for machine intelligence. Enterprise contracts, fiat revenue, and institutional capital entering create a compelling economic flywheel.

Khala  ·  Feb 2026

x402: The Payments Protocol for AI Agents

The HTTP extension backed by Coinbase and Cloudflare defining how AI agents pay at scale. This quiet primitive has outsized implications for autonomous systems economics.

0xSammy  ·  Feb 2026

The Decentralized Robotics Landscape

Where physical automation meets programmable coordination, and what it means for capital allocation. Hardware-adjacent networks represent the next frontier for decentralized infrastructure.

Khala  ·  Jan 2026

Subnet Risk Index: Methodology & Backtest

A comprehensive scoring framework for Bittensor subnet deregistration risk. Signal architecture, weighting, and backtest findings across 60+ live subnets demonstrate predictive power.

TAO Institute  ·  2025

CHZ 2030: US Entry and the Dawn of Sports RWAs

Chiliz’s US re-entry playbook: NASDAQ DAT, NBA/NFL fan token pipeline, and a $50–100M Digital Asset Treasury modelled on AVAX ONE. The structural thesis positions $CHZ as the definitive sports RWA settlement layer.

Pylon Partners  ·  2026

Immutable in VanEck’s 15 Crypto Predictions

VanEck identifies Immutable as the dominant gaming blockchain by end of 2024, citing developer traction and ecosystem depth. Institutional-grade infrastructure positions IMX for sustained market leadership.

VanEck  ·  2024
Selected from a record going back to 2022 Full archive at khala.io →

Built in
the market.

We built before we invested. Token foundation strategy at IMX, fan token rollouts across more than eighty clubs at Chiliz, the CMO seat at an a16z-backed studio, and consumer private equity across Hong Kong and Southeast Asia all sit on the resume. That is the lens we underwrite from.

We sit alongside founders, not above them. The pipeline runs through operator networks built over a decade, not inbound forms. Fableborne, Castile and the Bittensor thesis all reached us before the category had institutional buyers.

We back operators whose work still compounds in ten years, not in one cycle.

Jack Ai-Leung
Jack Ai-Leung
Managing Partner

Jack began his career in private equity across APAC before leading strategy for the $IMX Token Foundation during the launch of the #1 gaming token in crypto. Jack has sat on both sides as an allocator and operator, and that pattern recognition is what shapes the Pylon Partners business model today.

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0xDith
0xDith
Venture Partner

0xDith spent his career across fast-growing tech, formerly leading Stripe GTM in the Middle East and North Africa, then as CMO of Proof of Play, an a16z-backed gaming company. Today he runs one of the most popular game studios in the world.

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0xSammy
0xSammy
Venture Partner

0xSammy is the most followed researcher across crypto and AI, spotting the rise of $VIRTUALS and $TAO before mass-market adoption. He educates a 100,000+ audience daily across his platforms, and the time-stamped record is fully public.

@0xSammy