General Partner at Play Ventures · Joined 2019
View Live Interactive Profile →Anton Backman is a General Partner at Play Ventures and is based in Helsinki, where his team page states he leads new investments across game studios, platforms and technology. The page states he started his career with internships at a Nordic corporate law firm and in VC and LP relations at Slush, that while at law school he co-founded Wave Ventures, a micro-VC backed by the founders of Supercell, Skype and other Nordic growth companies, that he co-founded a web3 startup in 2018, and that he joined Play Ventures in 2019. He is listed among the firm's general partners in the November 2024 announcement of its $140M Fund III, though that article carries no descriptive sentence about him beyond the listing. No portfolio company is attributed to him individually in any announcement read, and no current board seat could be sourced.