Erik Gloersen

As the founder and CEO of FunCom in Norway back in the early 90’s, Erik launched a three decade long love affair with the video game industry. In addition to starting new video game companies he also has a successful track record from turning around struggling studios like Looking Glass (Thief series, System Shock 2), Epic Games’ studio People Can Fly (Bulletstorm, Gears of War) and 2K Czech during the development of Mafia 3.

While his experience also features stints with larger companies like Atari and EA, his passion was always adding rocket fuel to fast growing startups. While running Disney’s mobile game division in Europe in 2011 he became convinced that free to play was going to change the industry. In 2017 Erik left Take Two and helped four new studios launch their business, including Smirk Game Studios in Prague with a group of ex-Disney Mobile veterans.

Then after helping Neon Giant and Exit Plan raise money from Sisu Game Ventures and working more closely with Paul and Samuli, Erik joined Sisu as a General Partner in 2020. In his role as an early stage investor his goal is to help founders build the companies that can build the games that we all want to play.