Sky Mavis

Sky Mavis is a blockchain gaming company that builds both games and the underlying chain infrastructure for player-owned economies. Its flagship product is Axie Infinity, a game in which players collect, breed and battle NFT-based creatures called Axies; the broader Axie universe includes the App.Axie marketplace for buying and selling Axie collectibles, Axie Infinity: Origins (a PvP tactical card battler) and Axie Infinity: Homeland (a village-building title set on the planet Lunacia) [0][2][5]. The company also develops Ronin, an EVM-compatible blockchain (described as an Ethereum sidechain) designed for developers building games with player-owned economies and positioned by the company as the leading gaming-centric blockchain by all-time NFT volume, handling transactions at a fraction of Ethereum mainnet cost [0][4][5].

A third pillar, the Mavis Ecosystem, packages developer tooling intended to let third-party studios build and scale blockchain games, including NFT marketplaces, reward distribution systems, decentralized domain name services and wallet solutions with keyless onboarding [0][4]. Beyond product, Sky Mavis operates an in-house venture arm, Sky Mavis Ventures, which makes direct equity and token investments in early-stage web3 gaming studios and infrastructure projects, with reported positions in the web3 game Parallel and cross-chain protocol LayerZero [5].

Secondary profiles differ on founding details: one dates the company to 2018 with co-founders Trung Nguyen, Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Kyrylo Dubovyk and Jeffrey Zirlin [5], another states 2018 co-founding by Larsen, Nguyen and Zirlin while elsewhere listing 2019 [4], and a journalistic profile says Nguyen co-founded the company in 2018 and that it has five co-founders [3]. Reported CTO identity also differs across sources (Viet Anh Ho [3][4] versus Kyrylo Dubovyk [5]).