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Ggwp

Hillsborough, US · Founded 2020 · Delaware corporation · 4 known investors

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GGWP provides an AI-based content moderation platform that detects and responds to disruptive user behavior and gives moderators automation and workflow tools. It serves games, media networks, creator ecosystems, and large fan communities.

Also known as GGWP

Founders & leadership

Ggwp was founded in 2020 by George Ng and Kun Gao.

GNGeorge Ng
George NginCo-founderGeorge Ng held the position of Chief Data Scientist at Cray and previously worked as a research scientist at DARPA modeling cyber and terrorism risks. He co-founded Cyence, a cyber risk modeling company acquired by Guidewire, and is now Co-Founder of GGWP, an AI-based content moderation platform for online games and communities; he also advises and teaches at UC Berkeley.
KGKun Gao
Kun Gaoin𝕏Co-founderCo-founder of Ggwp, an AI-based content moderation platform for gaming and media communities. Gao has experience in business development, strategy, product, and international business.
GX
George XiaoNamed on SEC filing

Board

DFDennis Fong
Dennis Fongin𝕏Co-founderVenture Partner at Bitkraft Esports Ventures

Investors · 4

Reported raises · per SEC filings

Form D private placements

$12M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2021–2026

$12MraisedFeb 2022 · 45 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Dennis FongDirector
  • George NgDirector
  • George XiaoDirector
  • Kun GaoDirector
Offering amount
$12M
Amount sold
$12M
Minimum investment
$8K
Proceeds to insiders
$600K
First sale
Jan 2021
Incorporated
Corporation, Delaware, 2020
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

GGWP operates an AI moderation, analytics and community intelligence platform for online communities. The system ingests user-generated content in real time — text chat, voice chat, images, usernames, player reports and Discord activity — and flags or acts on material that breaches a customer's rules. The company states 99% AI moderation accuracy, support for 24+ languages, and more than 3 billion interactions processed per month; of content scanned, it reports 91% cleared automatically, 8.5% auto-actioned and 0.5% escalated to a human reviewer.

The product is organized into five functions: Frontline (real-time detection of individual messages, voice, images and usernames), Behavior (longitudinal analysis of a user's conduct to surface repeat offenders and coordinated abuse), Decision (automated, consistent enforcement such as warnings, mutes and bans), Safeguard (detection and fast escalation of high-risk signals including grooming and self-harm), and Console (a dashboard for review, rule setting and strictness tuning). A Lifecycle Intelligence layer adds community and sentiment analytics derived from the moderation engines' own signal. GGWP also sells Managed Moderation, a trained in-house human review team available 24/7 for ambiguous and high-risk cases. Press coverage of its 2026 Series A refers to the offering as the Community Copilot platform, covering proactive moderation across text, voice, reports and Discord together with sentiment analysis used to guide product iteration.

Founding story

GGWP was founded by industry veterans who approached community safety from within gaming. Co-founder and CEO Dennis "Thresh" Fong is a former Doom and Quake world champion, an Esports Hall of Fame inductee, recognized by Guinness World Records as the first professional gamer, and previously co-founded five gaming and SaaS companies including Xfire and Lithium Technologies; he is also a venture partner at BITKRAFT Ventures. Co-founder and CTO George Ng founded and was CTO of Cyence, acquired by Guidewire Software where he served as CDO, and was previously Chief Data Scientist at Cray and a research scientist at DARPA, with a PhD from UC Irvine and a B.A. from UC Berkeley. Co-founder Kun Gao studied EECS and Mathematics at UC Berkeley, pursued a CS PhD at Carnegie Mellon, and previously founded Frappr and Crunchyroll, the latter acquired by Sony Pictures. The company describes building the platform in gaming because live-service games encountered problems of scale, velocity and anonymity before other sectors.

Business model

GGWP sells a business-to-business moderation platform to operators of online communities, combining automated detection and enforcement software with an optional managed human review service. Its site directs prospects to book a demo, including a demo run on a sample of the prospect's own chat, voice or image data.

Traction

The company reports processing over 3 billion interactions monthly with 24+ languages supported and 99.5% of reports auto-resolved. It lists studio partners and customers on its website. A data provider listing recorded 30 employees and $15.0M total funding as of May 2026, while the company's own about page cites 50+ teammates.

Latest developments

In May 2026, GGWP announced the close of a $15.0M Series A round to advance its Community Copilot platform for proactive moderation and community growth. The company is hiring across engineering, solutions and trust and safety operations.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

GGWP positions itself as a trust and safety layer originally built for live-service gaming communities and now offered to any real-time online community, emphasizing customer-configurable standards rather than a fixed policy, coverage of multiple content modalities including voice and images, and analytics layered on the moderation signal.

The platform combines per-message detection with longitudinal behavioral analysis to identify repeat offenders and coordinated abuse, automated and consistent enforcement actions, dedicated high-risk detection for grooming and self-harm, customer-tunable strictness, multi-modal coverage spanning chat, voice, images, usernames, player reports and Discord, and a 24/7 in-house human review team for ambiguous cases.

Technology

AI models perform real-time detection across text, voice, images and usernames, with context and user-level understanding over time, automated enforcement logic, high-risk signal detection, and a dashboard for configuration and review. Community and sentiment analytics are built on the signal generated by the moderation engines.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales, with demo requests and case studies as the primary conversion paths on the website, and an offer to evaluate a prospect's own sample content against the platform.

Operators of large real-time online communities. GGWP names gaming, real-money gaming, virtual worlds, shopping and commerce, social and community platforms, creator and streaming, sports and media, and education as served segments, and its website cites game studios among its customers and partners.

Geography

Seven offices providing all-timezone coverage: San Francisco (US), Madrid (Spain), London (UK), Manila (Philippines), Bangalore (India), Tokyo (Japan) and Seoul (South Korea). Staff span seven countries and speak 12+ languages.

History

Founded in 2020, GGWP built its moderation stack for live-service gaming communities and subsequently extended it to other real-time community categories including betting chat, creator communities, avatar worlds and classroom chat. It has grown to seven offices and 50+ staff, and reported a $15.0M Series A in May 2026.

Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
AI moderation accuracyJan 202699%
Content auto-actionedJan 20268.5%
Content cleared automaticallyJan 202691%
Content escalated to a human reviewerJan 20260.5%
Countries with officesJan 20267
Employees (data provider listing)May 202630 employees
Languages spoken by staffJan 202612+
Languages supportedJan 202624+
Monthly interactions processedJan 20263B+
Player reports auto-resolvedJan 202699.5%
TeammatesJan 202650+
Total funding (data provider listing)May 2026$15M

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
May 2026
GGWP announces $15.0M Series A

GGWP, developer of the Community Copilot platform for proactive moderation across text, voice, reports and Discord plus sentiment analysis, announced the close of a $15.0M Series A round.

$15M source ↗

Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

Legal entities · 1

corporate structure
GgwpDelaware

Research sources · 5

primary sources listed

5 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Ggwp do?
GGWP builds real-time AI trust and safety tooling that moderates chat, voice, images, usernames and reports for online communities.
Who founded Ggwp?
Ggwp was founded by George Ng, Kun Gao in 2020.
Who are Ggwp's investors?
Ggwp's investors include Bitkraft Esports Ventures, Makers Fund, Palm Drive Capital, Sony Ventures Corporation.
How much funding has Ggwp raised?
Ggwp has disclosed $12M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
Where is Ggwp headquartered?
Ggwp is headquartered in Hillsborough, US.