Welcome to GamerPay
Join us here to learn more about GamerPay, its mission, team and other investors and partners who are part of it - and why we even started the company.
In its essence, GamerPay is mixture of hardcore talent and passion, with a crystal clear goal of enabling any gamer to trade skins safely. Building a regulated marketplace that handles digital assets is not easy. Even harder is it to earn peoples trust, in particular in a space filled with unregulated sites and people conducting shady and unlawful business.
From nothing in 2021 GamerPay has now grown into a community of more than 300.000 people while handling thousands of trades every day. We have just started, and we look forward leveling further up!
Learn more about how we got started and much more below.
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Our Mission
We are on mission to help casual as well as experienced gamers trade items effortlessly, with no risk of monetary loss. We do that by delivering a service that makes item trading safe and easy!
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Our Vision
We envision a future, where digital items are just as much a part of your identity as today’s physical goods are. Our vision is to build a global, open marketplace for gaming skins, enabling seamless and secure transactions for gamers. Like Coinbase helped transition crypto from the dark internet, we want to lead the adoption of gaming cosmetics.
How it all started
Martin had for several years been the owner of the largest Counter-Strike community in Northern Europe, a Facebook group with more than 80,000 members. Not a day went by where Martin and the team wasn’t contacted by gamers who were scammed, either by losing money or the skin itself.
With a background in building transactional marketplaces, Martin looked for a safer platform from which he could advise members to go and conduct their business. However, there weren’t many viable options. Most places either had hidden fees, were way too expensive or unavailable because of age and territorial restrictions.
Because of this the team decided to investigate further. They conducted a deeper research where 5.000 gamers were involved throughout Europe.
The results they found were concerning.
46% of the people gamers had previously had been scammed, a lot of whom were minors.
And thus, GamerPay was born.
Martin gathered a small group of passionate people to build and launch a safe place to trade virtual items and skins.
GamerPay launched in May 2021.
The GamerPay Team
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Martin 'Kongen' Lykke
Martin is the glue of GamerPay. He does everything from coding, to customer service and growth.
He previously co-founded Denmark's largest transactional marketplace together with Rasmus.
Martin loves the diversity of games and is exploring a multitude of them, together with his children.
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Mathias 'Matthews' Hermansen
Mathias is the CEO of GamerPay and knows a lot about marketplaces having been employed at Trendsales, eBay, and now GamerPay.
He has three children, some are at an age where gaming and skins are more and more an everyday topic over the dinner table.
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Iev 'SykaBliat' Strygul
Iev is our lead backend developer.
He is the coding and infrastructure wizzard that makes sure that GamerPay is always up and running.
Iev has great passion in CS which is the only game he spends time on when he needs to relax and get away from the code.
Iev also loves boxing which he has been practicing for many years.
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Morten 'ZukwiZ' Byskov
Morten loves Counter-Strike and skins. Having done more than 3.000 trades over the last couple of years and grown his inventory to +50k euro, he is the big spender in the GamerPay clan.
Morten also plays "semi-pro” CS in the Oldboys league!
Morten has a background from Maersk as a broker and worked with several startups within product and marketing.
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Peter 'sneakerfreak999' Haldbæk
Much like Mathias, Peter is also a father of three, two of whom have spent as much time as Peter on gaming.
Peter is our lead front-end developer and previously worked together with Martin, Rasmus, and Mathias.
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Oliver 'FragR' Nielsen
Oliver puts out all the fires. He knows a lot about complicated moneyflows, KYC and yes, GamerPay. He has single-handly helped more than 3.000 people getting the most out of GamerPay!
Oliver has previous experience with trading CS skins, been casting danish CS matches and held level 10 on Faceit.
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Mads 'PsYch0' Gerber
Just like some lives and breathes Counter-Strike, so does Mads with design.
He loves spending time on design sprints, growth hacking, and lean startup methodologies to create high-impact products that do good for people.
With Mads joining GamerPay, he got into Counter-Strike again! During his youth, CS 1.6 took up a great portion of his free time.
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Asger 'Yde' Yde
Asger is working within Customer Success and Marketing. He loves trading CS skins and have been doing such since the release of the Arms Deals collection!
Asger also has great passion for creating engaging and fun video reels for the joy of the GP team and our users!
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Mathias 'Lo0se03' Fjølner
Mathias is part of the marketing team where he help engage and provide a wealth of information and knowledge about GamerPay, CS skins and items in general.
Besides MyLittlePony, Mathias enjoy playing CS2!
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Martin 'Cylock' Gessner
Martin is GamerPay’s Twitter boss and lead our German initiatives.
Martin has been studying Law and has a big passion for esport. In particular CS has a deep and special place (next to Star Wars) in his heart.
Martin has his own German CS2 team and enjoy meme’ing it out on Twitter.
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Simon 'Sylle' Sylvest
Simon is leading our YouTube partnerships.
He has a deep knowledge about the Counter-Strike and skin scene, having traded a lot himself.
Simon is studying Digital Management at CSB, and on the side he has run his own YouTube channel, focusing on green screens!
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Thorben 'Thorben' Zirkel
Thorben is part of our content team, having created multiple amazing articles about CS, GamerPay and skins.
Next to GamerPay, Thorben is studying at University where his major is History and CS…
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Frederik 'Mr.Spaceman' Jensen
Frederik is part of our web3 initiative, managing our Good Game Hunters project, where he explores new games with potential for collaboration.
Frederik is passionate about cutting-edge technology, particularly blockchain gaming and AI.
In his free time, Frederik is working towards benching 130 kg and achieving a 200 kg deadlift before Asger!
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Jessica 'Cylockine' Gessner
Jess is part of our Blog team, creating engaging and insightful content to our users.
Jess also loves games, in particular the Witcher and Counter-Strike.
In her freetime she spends time on photography and love spending time with her cats and dog.
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Yusuf Murodov
Yusuf is our latest killer addition to our development team.
He almost swing the AWP as well as his CSS styling!
Our Values
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Respect.
Treat others as you wish to be treated.
We are deeply committed to helping both frequent and casual traders. Especially those that do not yet comprehend how to safely buy or sell gaming items. -
Inclusion.
Be open, respect views that differ from your own - no matter the age, gender or race. We want to build a safe place for all to trade without the fear of being scammed or harassed.
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Honesty.
Be true to yourself and others.
We are always fully transparent about what you pay for transacting on our platform and why. At GamerPay you purchase skins and items because you want to portray yourself and spice up your experience playing the game you love. -
Adventurous.
Gaming is limitless.
With gaming, like in life, you can dream big. Explore, learn, be openminded and find new friendships. Strive towards those big dreams and never ever stop exploring for new and better ways.
Partners & Advisors
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Frederik Byskov
Frederik has more than 20 years of experience within the esports scene. As a co-founder of Astralis, the historic Counter-Strike team, he knows quite a thing or two. Here is what Frederik has to say about GamerPay:
I know that scamming takes up a lot of mindspace for most gamers. That is why I joined GamerPay. I am sure we can make gaming safe again for young individuals.
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Michael Seibel
Michael is the co-founder of Twitch and current CEO of Y Combinator and has lots of experience in gaming and helping startups from early stage to scaleups. Here is what Michael has to say about GamerPay:
“When I first heard how many players get scammed when trading gaming skins and assets I was concerned. That is why I was so excited to invest in GamerPay and have them participate in the YC Summer 2021 batch.”LinkedIn
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Jonas Gundersen
Jonas has been a pro player himself before joining Ninjas In Pyjamas as COO and investing in GamerPay.
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Heini Zachariassen
Heini knows all about marketplaces, as co-founder of the worlds largest wine marketplace Vivino.
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Aleksander Leonard Larsen
Aleksander is the co-founder of the largest game on blockchain, Axie Infinity.
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Nicolai Broby
Nicolai has been part of developing the Fun Run series, with more than 120 million players.
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Runar Reistrup
Runar has as CEO of Depop, been a vital part in builing one of Europes biggest fashion marketplaces.
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Nathaniel Tucker
Nathaniel is co-founder of the biggest marketplace where players meet gamemasters.
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Cornelia Mueller
Cornelia is co-founder of one of the fastest growing fintechs in Europe named SumUp.
The safe marketplace for CS2 skins - built in Denmark.
GamerPay allow users to sell items at 0% fee and buy new items with their balance at 0%.
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Investors
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PreSeed Ventures
PSV is an early stage venture fund based in Denmark. They have a track record of more than 400 investments eg. Vivino, Lunar, and Trustpilot and more.
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Rainmaking
Rainmaking is a world-wide start-up incubator founded in 2007. They are behind Startupbootcamp and consist of more than 200 people across the world.
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Vækstfonden
A Danish Growth fund administering funds on behalf of the Danish state in cooperation with both danish companies and venture funds. Like Blast, Billetto and more.
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Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a prestigious accelerator based in San Francisco. Y Combinator has had AirBnB, Dropbox, DoorDash, Coinbase and Instacart through its program.
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FundersClub
FundersClub is an American fund, that among others have invested in Coinbase, Slack, Gitlab and more.
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Skyfall Ventures
Skyfall Ventures is an Norwegian fund, that among others have invested in Sky Mavis, Nansen and more.
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Unpopular Ventures
Unpopular Ventures is an American fund, that among others have invested in Jeeves, Sleek, Airlift and more.
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Pioneer Fund
Pioneer Fund is an American fund, founded and operated by earlier YC alumns.
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Aventures
Aventures is a Danish fund with global outreach. Besides invsting in GamerPay they also own a stake in Alt.
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Asymatry Ventures
Asymatry Ventures is an American fund with more than 150 investments under its belt and now also GamerPay.
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Integrity Ventures
Integrity Ventures is a UK venturefund, that primarily invest in European startups with integrity.
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MyAsiaVC
MyAsiaVC is an American fund, that among others have invested in Lemonade, Lime og Kraken and more.
About GamerPay
GamerPay Partners
©2024 GamerPay. All rights reserved. CVR: 41885815. Not affiliated with Valve Corp.
Partner of Lemonway, a Payment Institution authorised by the ACPR in France on 24 December 2012 under the number 16568.
