Managing Partner
Ben Feder is the Managing Partner and Founder of TIRTA Ventures, based in New York.
Ben brings over two decades of operating and investing experience in interactive entertainment. He previously served as CEO and board member of Take-Two Interactive, where he led the company through a period of significant growth and transformation.
He also served as President, International Partnerships (North America) at Tencent Games, and has held board positions at Epic Games, Glu Mobile, Bad Robot Games, and Hi-Rez Studios.
Earlier in his career, Ben co-founded ZMC, a media and entertainment-focused private equity firm. He holds a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Principal
Tyler Matses is Principal at TIRTA Ventures.
Tyler brings a diverse background encompassing venture capital, M&A, and operational roles at startups. He started his career at Blackstone and Raymond James' Investment Banking Division, covering biotechnology. Most recently, he worked at a gaming startup focused on corporate development and product management.
A lifelong gamer, Tyler grew up playing Counter-Strike 1.6 competitively and remains a dedicated FPS and MMORPG (WoW: Classic) player to this day.
Investor
Keizac (Kei) Lee is an investor at TIRTA Ventures, based in Hong Kong and New York.
Kei brings over a decade of experience across venture capital, project finance, and video game publishing. Prior to TIRTA, he led emerging markets investments at Tencent Games and served a Partner at Kowloon Nights, a project finance fund focused on indie game developers. He began his career in investment banking at BNP Paribas in Hong Kong.
Kei holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from the University of Toronto.
Investor Relations Manager
Sydney Levin-Epstein is the Investor Relations Manager at TIRTA Ventures, based in New York.
Sydney brings over a decade of experience in fundraising, relationship management, and capital strategy. She began her career in electoral politics, working in Congress, on campaigns, and as a candidate for State Senate herself. Prior to TIRTA, she held senior roles in political fundraising, raising over $117M for Senator Jon Ossoff's Georgia runoff, averaging $1M per day for Senator Raphael Warnock, and helping Senator Ed Markey make history as the first candidate to outraise a Kennedy in Massachusetts.
At TIRTA, Sydney works across LP relations and the firm's broader network in the Interactive AI and gaming space. She is passionate about how the power of capital scales ideas that reshape how people connect, learn, and play.
Seth is a seasoned game developer and product leader with deep experience across engineering, design, and production. He was most recently VP of Development on World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment. Prior to that, he was co-founder and CEO of Proletariat Inc., the studio behind Spellbreak, which was acquired by Activision Blizzard in 2022.
Doug brings nearly three decades of experience across media as an operator, strategist, advisor, and analyst. He currently serves as a senior advisor at BCG and writes The Mediator, a media newsletter. Doug was previously CFO of Pugilist Capital and held senior leadership roles at WarnerMedia and Time Warner, following an award-winning run as a media equity analyst.
Jonathan has over three decades of experience at the intersection of media, finance, and academia. He is a senior advisor at Evercore and the Michael T. Fries Professor of Media and Technology at Columbia Business School. Previously, he was co-head of the media group at Morgan Stanley and held senior roles at Goldman Sachs.
