About
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Justin Yuan
I'm a Partner at TIRTA Ventures. Games were the first large-scale interactive digital economies. They are now the proving ground for AI-native platforms, agents, and creative systems. We call this Interactive AI.
I co-founded TIRTA with Ben Feder, whom I met at Tencent, where I got a front-row seat to how the world's largest gaming company thinks about interactive entertainment and platform economics. Earlier in my career I was a technology investor at Citadel and Fortress Investment Group.
Before any of that, I spent years deep in game modding communities. As a teenager, I reverse-engineered RTS game engines, scripting custom AI behaviors, and shipping mods that real players actually played. That obsession with taking things apart and building something new out of the pieces never really went away.
I care about building things that matter, allocating capital to founders who see the world differently, and the compounding effects of taste, speed, and conviction.
Favorite Games
- Starcraft: Brood War
- Chrono Trigger
- Rimworld