Fulgur Ventures invests in ZEBEDEE because the games industry is the single best proving ground for Lightning at scale, and ZEBEDEE is the team furthest along in turning that thesis into product. Founded in 2019 by Andre Neves, Simon Cowell, and Christian Moss, ZEBEDEE has built a payments platform purpose-designed for the operational realities of modern game studios.

The company's stack includes a developer SDK, a consumer wallet and gaming hub, and a robust enterprise infrastructure layer that lets studios reward, tip, and transact in real bitcoin without ever touching custody or compliance themselves. ZEBEDEE has powered well-known integrations across multiplayer shooters, mobile titles, and esports tournaments, where instant micropayments meaningfully change how players engage and earn.

That product surface is exactly why ZEBEDEE fits Fulgur so naturally. We back teams that turn Lightning into invisible plumbing under products users already love, and games are uniquely positioned for that, given their global player bases, high session frequency, and existing comfort with virtual economies. Replacing tokens, gift cards, and gateway fees with native bitcoin rails is a quiet revolution in unit economics.

The bigger market is enormous. Global gaming is a multi-hundred-billion-dollar industry where payouts, rewards, and player-to-player value transfer are still stitched together with legacy rails that simply do not work across borders or at micro amounts. ZEBEDEE is building the default Bitcoin payments layer for that world, both for the studios that operate it and the players who live in it.

Investing in Andre, Simon, Christian, and the ZEBEDEE team is a bet that Lightning becomes the standard payments stack for games. We are proud to back them as they continue to define that category.