Cartridge Gaming Company
Brooklyn, US · Founded 2022 · Delaware corporation · 4 known investors
Cartridge builds Dojo, an open-source toolchain, plus rollup and wallet infrastructure for fully onchain games.
Also known as Cartridge · Cartridge Gaming Company
Founders & leadership
Cartridge Gaming Company was founded in 2022 by Tarrence van As.
Investors · 4
Also in the syndicate · 3
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$20.3M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2024
▶$20.3MraisedMar 2024 · 29 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Tarrence van AsExecutive Officer, Director
- Calvin DunwoodyExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $22.7M
- Amount sold
- $20.3M
- Minimum investment
- $10K
- First sale
- Mar 2024
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2022
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Cartridge Gaming Company is a New York-based developer of provable games and the tooling and infrastructure that supports them. Its principal project is Dojo, an open-source protocol, framework and toolchain for building fully onchain games, autonomous worlds and applications intended to be natively provable, extensible and composable, inheriting blockchain properties such as trustlessness, decentralization and permanence. Dojo 1.0 was announced in August 2024 alongside the company's Series A round.
Beyond the Dojo engine, Cartridge offers Slot, described as a rollup-as-a-service built specifically for onchain games, and Controller, a gaming-specific smart contract wallet designed for player onboarding and in-game interactions. The company also facilitates the release of games built with Dojo, including the procedural dungeon crawler Loot Survivor, the tile-placement game Paved, and Dope Wars, an onchain adaptation of the 1999 TI-83 game Drug Wars. Development work in the ecosystem is centered on Starknet and the Cairo language.
Business model
Cartridge develops and maintains developer-facing infrastructure for onchain games — the Dojo open-source framework, the Slot rollup-as-a-service and the Controller smart contract wallet — and supports third-party studios and games built on that stack.
Traction
By August 2024 the company reported a growing cohort of games and studios in the Dojo ecosystem, including titles Loot Survivor, Paved and Dope Wars released that summer, and third-party studio Underware building on Starknet with Cairo and Dojo. It ran a fifth Dojo Game Jam and multiple grant and residency programs.
Latest developments
In August 2024 Cartridge announced a $7.5M Series A led by BITKRAFT Ventures, the release of Dojo 1.0, a slate of Dojo-built game launches, and several developer education and funding initiatives.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Described in its own announcement as a leading developer of provable games and the associated tooling, with Dojo positioned by investors StarkWare and BITKRAFT as one of the major platforms for fully onchain gaming.
Cartridge combines an open-source onchain game engine with purpose-built supporting infrastructure — a games-specific rollup service (Slot) and a gaming smart contract wallet (Controller) — with the stated aim of shortening development from initial concept to a finished game from weeks to days.
Technology
Dojo is an open-source framework and toolset for building complex, provable games, autonomous worlds and applications on blockchains. Cartridge complements it with Slot, a rollup-as-a-service aimed at onchain games, and Controller, a gaming-specific smart contract wallet for player onboarding and game interactions. Ecosystem development takes place on Starknet using the Cairo language.
Go-to-market
Cartridge distributes Dojo as open-source software and cultivates a developer ecosystem through education and funding initiatives, including the eight-week Dojo Sensei Residency Program in New York City for 30 builders, recurring Dojo Game Jams, the Starknet Seed Grant Program offering up to $25,000 USDC in non-dilutive funding, and the Starknet Propulsion Program for Starknet development teams. It also facilitates the launch of games built with Dojo.
Game developers and emerging studios building fully onchain games and autonomous worlds, including crypto-native builders and, per investor commentary, traditional game studios exploring onchain models.
Geography
Headquartered in New York, with locations listed in New York, NY and the East New York and Union Square areas; the Dojo Sensei Residency Program was run in New York City.
History
The company was founded in 2022 and leads development of the Dojo protocol and toolchain. In August 2024 it announced the completion of a Series A round led by BITKRAFT Ventures together with the launch of Dojo 1.0 and a set of ecosystem support programs.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 4
launches, deals, and filingsCartridge announced the completion of a $7.5M Series A round led by BITKRAFT Ventures, with participation from Fabric, Dune, StarkWare, Primitive and Ergodic, to support development of onchain games and its developer tooling.
$7.5M source ↗
Cartridge announced Dojo 1.0, an open-source framework and toolset for building provable games, autonomous worlds and applications on blockchains.
Cartridge launched education and funding initiatives including the eight-week Dojo Sensei Residency Program for 30 builders in New York City, the fifth Dojo Game Jam, the Starknet Seed Grant Program providing up to $25,000 USDC in non-dilutive funding, and the Starknet Propulsion Program.
Cartridge facilitated the summer release of onchain games built with Dojo, including Loot Survivor, Paved and Dope Wars.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structure▸Research sources · 6
primary sources listed
- Cartridge Raises Series A Funding Round Led by BITKRAFT Ventures to Accelerate Onchain Game Development - TriplePoint Newsroompressreleases.triplepointpr.com · web
6 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Cartridge Gaming Company do?
- Cartridge builds Dojo, an open-source toolchain, plus rollup and wallet infrastructure for fully onchain games.
- Who founded Cartridge Gaming Company?
- Cartridge Gaming Company was founded by Tarrence van As in 2022.
- Who are Cartridge Gaming Company's investors?
- Cartridge Gaming Company's investors include Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance).
- How much funding has Cartridge Gaming Company raised?
- Cartridge Gaming Company has disclosed $20.3M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
- Where is Cartridge Gaming Company headquartered?
- Cartridge Gaming Company is headquartered in Brooklyn, US.