What SuperLayer does

SuperLayer is a San Francisco-based Web3 venture studio founded in 2021 that co-founds and incubates multi-chain, tokenized consumer and gaming products built on the RLY Protocol. The studio recruits external founders and pairs them with an in-house leadership bench — Managing Partners Kevin Chou and Mahesh Vellanki (serial founders of unicorns Kabam, Rally, and Forte) plus a full C-suite (CTO Michael Li, COO Gary Coover, CFO Renee Wong, CPO Saad Rizvi) and functional leaders across engineering, partnerships, and marketing. SuperLayer provides pre-seed capital, domain expertise in gaming and crypto, and operational support from concept through launch and scaling, in exchange for equity stakes in the resulting portfolio companies.

The studio's only publicly named portfolio project is Unite, a gaming product served via takigames.net. Its competitive positioning rests on a credentialed founding team and a curated angel network of more than 80 named individuals and funds — including Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Steve Chen, Yat Siu, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paris Hilton, and Joe Montana — that lowers the friction of founder recruitment, follow-on capital, and consumer distribution. There is no public tokenomics for the RLY Protocol integration disclosed in the input, and product details beyond Unite are not specified.

Economically, SuperLayer is a venture studio rather than a product company: it does not charge customers for services and discloses no product revenue. Returns are intended to be realized through equity ownership in portfolio companies at exit (IPO or acquisition). No funding rounds, portfolio count, exit history, revenue, or geographic footprint beyond the San Francisco HQ are disclosed in the available data.

Name

SuperLayer

Legal name

Superlayer

Website

https://superlayer.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SuperLayer is a San Francisco Web3 venture studio founded in 2021 that co-founds multi-chain, tokenized consumer and gaming products on the RLY Protocol, providing pre-seed funding, domain expertise, and operational support to recruited founders in exchange for equity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Venture Studio Services

NAICS

Software Publishers (51321)

akta.pro primary industry

Super-App Wallets & Mini-Program Payments (FSAMAEAE)

Keywords

• Venture studio
• Web3 incubation
• Pre-seed funding
• Blockchain gaming
• Crypto consumer products

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Venture Studio / Equity Ownership: SuperLayer generates returns through equity ownership in co-founded portfolio companies. As a venture studio, it provides pre-seed funding, domain expertise, and operational support to founders in exchange for equity stakes. Returns are realized through portfolio company exits including IPOs and acquisitions.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

SuperLayer is a Web3 venture studio that identifies, recruits, and co-founds new multi-chain, tokenized consumer products with talented founders in gaming and consumer sectors. The studio provides co-founders with pre-seed funding, critical domain expertise, key partnerships, and operational support from concept and roadmap through testing, launching, and scaling. Portfolio projects are built on the RLY Protocol.

Product overview

SuperLayer operates as a venture studio that co-founds consumer and gaming projects. The studio develops ideas in-house from concept through testing, launching, and scaling, providing co-founders with pre-seed funding, domain expertise, and key partnerships. Notable projects include Unite (a gaming product via takigames.net), though the source provides limited detail on individual product offerings beyond naming them as part of their project portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SuperLayer Venture Studio Incubation A venture studio service offering that develops ideas in-house from concept and roadmap through testing, launching, and scaling, providing co-founders with pre-seed funding, critical domain expertise in gaming and crypto, and key partnerships to accelerate growth. Targets talented founders seeking to launch new innovative projects in gaming and consumer sectors.
• Unite A gaming project co-founded by SuperLayer's venture studio, hosted at takigames.net.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Play Ventures: Play Ventures is a gaming-focused venture firm that funds and supports early-stage founders across gaming and interactive entertainment, directly overlapping with SuperLayer's gaming-sector co-founding approach.
• Animoca Brands: Animoca Brands operates a Web3 venture builder focused on gaming and consumer tokenized experiences, making it one of the closest direct comparables to SuperLayer's gaming-and-consumer studio thesis.
• BITKRAFT Ventures: BITKRAFT is a gaming-focused investment firm with a studio-adjacent model that backs and supports early-stage gaming and interactive entertainment founders, overlapping with SuperLayer's gaming vertical.
• Delphi Labs: Delphi Labs is a Web3 venture studio that incubates and invests in crypto protocols and applications. It mirrors SuperLayer's model of building and backing early-stage tokenized products with operational support.

Emerging players

• Mechanism Capital: Mechanism Capital is a crypto-native investment firm that takes concentrated, early positions in Web3 protocols. It is comparable as a specialist emerging player in the same tokenized-consumer ecosystem.
• Hashed: Hashed is a global crypto venture fund that backs early-stage Web3 protocols and consumer applications. It is comparable as an emerging, crypto-native investor-builder targeting similar tokenized consumer opportunities.
• Spartan Group: Spartan Group is a crypto-native advisory and investment firm with a venture-builder approach. It is comparable as a smaller, Web3-focused investor-builder operating in adjacent deal territory to SuperLayer.
• Mirana Ventures: Mirana Ventures is a Web3 investment vehicle backing early-stage crypto and consumer token projects. Its builder-style backing of founders makes it a useful emerging-player peer for SuperLayer's studio model.

Broad incumbents

• Andreessen Horowitz (a16z Crypto): a16z Crypto is a large, established crypto investment practice that incubates and funds Web3 ventures at scale. While not a pure venture studio, it is a backer of SuperLayer and an incumbent shaping the same Web3 venture category.
• Paradigm: Paradigm is a major crypto-focused investment firm that funds and supports Web3 protocols and applications, providing a broader-incumbent comparison point for SuperLayer's crypto venture thesis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/superlayerio
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/superlayer

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments9 records

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