Investment & Holding

Companies offering investment & holding in the iGaming industry — 78 listed.

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Ceras Ventures
New York, USA
Ceras Ventures is a multi‑strategy digital asset platform founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York City. The firm operates across three integrated pillars – Asset Management, Venture Investment, and Strategic Advisory – serving family offices, high‑net‑worth individuals, crypto‑native funds, Web3 and AI founders, and infrastructure platforms. With a global focus spanning the United States, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Asia‑Pacific (APAC), Ceras Ventures positions itself as an operator‑led, crypto‑native team with deep experience across market cycles. Since inception, the firm has invested over $100 million across more than 70 projects and built a network of 100+ partners. Its venture arm targets early‑stage Web3 and AI‑native companies building critical infrastructure, financial primitives, and next‑generation applications, while its asset management division provides institutional‑grade digital asset strategies designed to navigate market cycles and preserve capital. The advisory practice offers strategic, technical, and financial guidance on tokenomics, go‑to‑market, and market structure for protocols, funds, and on‑chain businesses. Ceras Ventures describes itself as “operator‑led” and “crypto‑native,” with a builder mindset combined with institutional discipline. The firm is privately held and operates with a lean team of 2–10 employees, as indicated on its LinkedIn profile. Leadership includes founder and general partner Roman J. Ma, partner and head of investment Sarah Abuagela, and co‑founders/partners Roy Lin and Claire Du.
Shamrock Capital Advisors
Los Angeles, California, United States
Shamrock Capital Advisors, LLC is a Los Angeles‑based investment firm with nearly five decades of domain‑specific expertise. Originally founded in 1978 as the family investment vehicle of Roy E. Disney (nephew of Walt Disney), the firm became independent in 2010 when its management team completed a buyout from the Disney family office. Today, Shamrock manages approximately $7.4 billion in assets across two distinct strategies: Private Equity and Content. The Private Equity strategy makes majority and minority investments in middle‑market companies operating in media, entertainment, content, communications, sports, marketing, education, and technology services. The Content strategy acquires and actively manages entertainment IP and media rights across film, television, music, sports, gaming, and the creator economy. Notable transactions include the purchase of Taylor Swift’s early master recordings (later sold back to her in 2025), the acquisition of Dr. Dre’s catalog with Universal Music, and the monetization of Sylvester Stallone’s profit participation stakes. Shamrock employs over 70 professionals and has been consistently recognized by PitchBook for top‑decile PE performance and by Private Equity International as one of the top 300 PE fundraisers.
KKR & Co.
30 Hudson Yards, New York, New York 10001, United States
KKR & Co. Inc. is a global investment firm that pioneered the modern leveraged buyout industry and has evolved into one of the world’s largest and most diversified alternative asset managers. Founded in 1976 in New York City by Jerome Kohlberg Jr., Henry Kravis, and George Roberts, the firm now manages approximately $758 billion in assets under management as of March 2026. KKR operates across private equity, credit, infrastructure, real estate, and capital markets, and also offers insurance solutions through its subsidiary Global Atlantic, acquired in 2024. The firm serves institutional investors, wealth managers, and corporations, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker KKR. In 2021, Joseph Bae and Scott Nuttall succeeded the founders as co-chief executive officers, while Kravis and Roberts remain actively involved as co-executive chairmen. KKR is known for landmark deals like the 1989 RJR Nabisco buyout and has consistently ranked among the top firms, topping the PEI 300 list in 2022 and 2024. Headquartered at 30 Hudson Yards in New York City, KKR employs about 4,830 people and has offices in 16 countries.
EMMA Capital
Prague, Czech Republic
EMMA Capital is a Czech-based private investment holding founded in 2012 by Jiří Šmejc, a former shareholder of PPF Group. From its earliest days, the company established a strong footprint in the European gaming and lottery sector by leading a consortium that acquired a 33% stake in Greece’s OPAP. Over the following decade, EMMA Capital expanded its gaming portfolio to include stakes in Casinos Austria, Österreichische Lotterien, Italy’s LOTTOITALIA, and Croatia’s SuperSport, often partnering with KKCG Group. In 2022 it formed a joint venture with global gaming leader Entain (Entain CEE), into which it contributed SuperSport and later the Polish betting giant STS; EMMA currently holds a 22.5% interest in that venture. Beyond gaming, the group built a substantial energy business through Premier Energy Group (Romania and Moldova) and entered e‑commerce logistics (Box Now, Mailstep, Packeta), financial services comparison (RIXO.cz), and medical technology distribution (Urion, Diamedix). The group operates through a lean management structure with seven partners, all of whom hold minority stakes in the management company EMMA Capital. Its strategy centres on taking active, hands‑on roles in portfolio companies, driving operational improvements and long‑term value creation primarily in Central and Southeast European markets.
Blackstone
345 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10154, USA
Blackstone Inc. is the world's largest alternative asset manager, overseeing over $1.3 trillion in assets under management as of March 2026. Founded in 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen A. Schwarzman, the firm began as a mergers and acquisitions advisory boutique and has since expanded into private equity, real estate, credit, hedge fund solutions, infrastructure, growth equity, secondaries, and insurance solutions. Headquartered at 345 Park Avenue in New York City, Blackstone employs approximately 5,285 people and is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker BX. The firm serves both institutional and individual investors, leveraging its massive scale—including over 12,500 real estate assets and more than 250 portfolio companies—to invest in dynamic sectors positioned for long-term growth. Notable for its active ownership and operational improvement approach, Blackstone has also made significant investments in the iGaming and gambling sector, such as the acquisition of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and stakes in casino operators and online gaming platforms.
Kings Park Capital
London, United Kingdom
Kings Park Capital (KPC) is a specialist private equity manager headquartered in London, founded in 2007 by Jason Katz. The firm focuses exclusively on the European leisure sector, investing in businesses such as hotels, travel, pubs, restaurants, health and wellness, visitor attractions, and gaming. KPC targets lower mid-market buyout and growth investments, deploying between £3 million and £15 million per transaction. The firm seeks companies with differentiated offerings, proven business models, and strong cash flow generation, partnering with management to accelerate growth. Since inception, Kings Park Capital has raised over £130 million in committed capital across three funds, with contributions from over 70 senior leisure sector participants. The firm's extensive industry network and over 100 years of combined sector experience enable it to provide strategic, operational, and M&A support to its portfolio companies.
Vici Properties
New York City, New York, United States
VICI Properties Inc. is an S&P 500® experiential real estate investment trust that owns one of the largest portfolios of market‑leading gaming, hospitality, wellness, entertainment and leisure destinations in North America. Founded on October 6, 2017 as a spin‑off from Caesars Entertainment Operating Company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, VICI was created to hold the real estate assets previously operated by Caesars. The name “VICI” — from the Latin *Veni, vidi, vici* (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) — reflects the company’s ambition to establish gaming real estate as a premier institutional asset class. Headquartered in New York City and trading on the NYSE under the ticker VICI, the company has grown from 19 initial properties to 103 experiential assets (63 gaming facilities and 40 non‑gaming experiential properties) across the United States and Canada. Its portfolio encompasses over 130 million square feet, approximately 66,000 hotel rooms, and more than 700 restaurants, bars, nightclubs and sportsbooks. Iconic holdings include Caesars Palace Las Vegas, MGM Grand and The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. VICI operates under a triple‑net lease model, partnering with industry‑leading operators such as Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts, Penn National Gaming, Hard Rock International and others. The company also holds partnerships in non‑gaming experiential sectors with brands like Cabot, Canyon Ranch, Chelsea Piers, Club Med, Great Wolf Resorts and Lucky Strike Entertainment. VICI’s strategy focuses on acquiring high‑quality experiential real estate, financing growth through long‑term, sale‑leaseback transactions, and maintaining a disciplined capital structure.
Apollo Global Management
9 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019, USA
Apollo Global Management, Inc. is one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, headquartered in New York City and operating across credit, private equity, real assets, and retirement services. Founded in 1990 by Leon Black, Josh Harris, and Marc Rowan—former bankers at the defunct Drexel Burnham Lambert—Apollo has grown to manage approximately $840 billion in assets as of 2025. The firm provides flexible capital solutions to corporations, institutions, and individuals, with a focus on generating excess returns along the full risk-reward spectrum from investment-grade credit to private equity. Through its wholly owned retirement services subsidiary, Athene, Apollo offers a suite of retirement savings products and acts as a solutions provider for institutions. The company’s integrated platform spans 16 origination businesses in private credit, a leading private equity franchise, and global real estate and infrastructure investments. Apollo is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker APO and employs approximately 5,700 staff worldwide. The firm is led by co-founder Marc Rowan as CEO and Chair, with a senior management team that includes President Jim Zelter and COO Byron Vielehr. Apollo is known for its patient, creative, and knowledge-driven approach to investing, aligning the interests of clients, portfolio companies, employees, and communities to achieve long-term, sustainable outcomes.
ERShares
New York, NY, USA
ERShares (EntrepreneurShares, LLC) is a US-based investment firm that applies venture-capital-style research principles to public equities and combines them with select private-company exposure inside liquid ETF and mutual fund structures. Founded by Dr. Joel Shulman, the firm's investment framework is built on the Entrepreneur Factor, a proprietary rules-based methodology developed from over 30 years of academic research at Babson College and Harvard University. Headquartered in New York, NY, with 11–50 employees, ERShares pioneered the 'private-public crossover ETF' concept, offering retail investors access to late-stage private companies like SpaceX, Kalshi, and Anduril alongside a portfolio of publicly traded innovators within a single daily-liquid ETF (ticker: XOVR). The firm also manages the ENTIX Global Entrepreneurs Fund, an actively managed global strategy. ERShares positions itself as a democratizer of private equity, historically available only to institutional and accredited investors, by embedding private-market exposure in an ETF's net asset value without separate subscriptions, lockups, or K-1 tax forms. Its products are listed on Nasdaq and available through major brokerage platforms.
Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc.
1133 Broadway, Suite 706, New York, New York 10010
Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. is a privately held investment firm registered in Florida, operating with a very low public profile. Based on limited available information, the company appears to focus on providing growth capital to technology-enabled businesses, particularly in the healthcare software and B2B business services sectors. A closely related entity, Ticonderoga Capital, Inc., is described on Crunchbase as an investment firm offering expansion capital in equity and subordinated debt to similar targets. Ticonderoga Ventures itself has no official website, press releases, or widely published portfolio, making its scale and exact operations difficult to ascertain. The sole public employee link is a product manager on LinkedIn, suggesting a very small team. The firm's incorporation in 2022, indicated by its Florida corporate file number, positions it as a relatively recent entrant, but its lack of digital footprint and trade press coverage leaves many details unknown.
a16z crypto
Menlo Park, California, USA (with offices in San Francisco and New York)
a16z crypto is the dedicated cryptocurrency and blockchain investment arm of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent venture capital firms. Launched in 2018 with the first of five multi-billion-dollar funds, the division was born from the firm’s early conviction in decentralized networks—a thesis that began with direct investments in crypto startups as early as 2013. Led by founder and managing partner Chris Dixon, a16z crypto operates as a full-stack platform, providing not only capital but also engineering, research, legal, marketing, and talent support to portfolio companies. Its investments span the entire blockchain ecosystem: layer‑1 protocols (Solana, Avalanche), decentralized finance (Uniswap, MakerDAO), NFT marketplaces (OpenSea), scaling solutions (Optimism, Arbitrum), and emerging sectors like stablecoins and onchain AI. With a $2.2 billion fifth fund announced in May 2026, a16z crypto remains one of the most influential forces in web3, wielding deep expertise and a long‑term horizon to back builders across seeds to growth stages.
Atlantic West Management Group, Inc.
Hollywood, Florida, United States
Atlantic West Management Group, Inc. (AWMG) is a holding company headquartered in Hollywood, Florida, with a subsidiary in San Jose, Costa Rica, that has supplied internet gaming software since the early days of the online poker industry. The company focuses on developing virtual multi-player games, online tournament play, and ring poker games, offering them in a fully customized format to charities, private organizations, and poker room operators worldwide. Its white-label solutions enable clients to deploy poker and tournament platforms under their own brands. AWMG’s cross-border structure and long tenure in the market indicate a mature operation experienced in both regulated and emerging markets. While the company maintains a low public profile with no active social media or recent press releases, its vendor profile on iGamingSuppliers.com and D&B listing confirm its niche B2B focus. No founding year, headcount, or specific founding story are publicly available, but the company’s continued presence suggests steady, bootstrapped operations serving a loyal client base.