Dennis Fong’s GGWP raises $12M for AI to combat game toxicity
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GGWP has raised $12 million in seed funding to use AI and content moderation to reduce toxicity in online games.
Dennis “Thresh” Fong is still a pretty darn good gamer decades after he was one of the earliest esports celebrities. But when he played with some of his entrepreneur friends, they weren’t quite as good and often got hassled by toxic players. So Fong and his friends decided to do something about it.
He founded the San Francisco company at the end of 2020 with Crunchyroll founder Kun Gao and AI expert George Ng. Their aim is to solve the massive problem of online toxicity in games.
“We played games together and, because of my level, we were queued with higher-skilled people. And so they would get a lot of hate with flaming and toxicity thrown their way. We were just saying, ‘Why is this still exist? Why is this still a problem in gaming? Why haven’t game companies figured it out yet?’ We had no intention of starting a company but we looked into it. We wanted to provide some advice and recommendations to game companies.”
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Bitkraft Ventures led the seed round, alongside Makers Fund, Griffin Gaming partners (GGP), Sony Innovation Fund, Riot Games, as well as game leaders such as Twitch founders Emmett Shear and Kevin Lin, founder of YouTube Steve Chen,
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