Holly Liu

Liu is the co-founded mobile gaming company Kabam in 2006; maker of the games: Kingdoms of Camelot, The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth, and Marvel Contest of Champions.^[3][4] She was lead designer of their flagship game Kingdoms of Camelot, which grossed over $250 million in just four years.^[7][4] Liu was instrumental in growing the company's annual revenue from zero to $400m. She was also the founding mobile designer for the game extension Battle for the North, which made Kingdoms of Camelot the highest-grossing app for iPhone and iPad in 2012.^[4]

In January 2017, the majority of Kabam’s assets were acquired by Netmarble, South Korea’s largest mobile gaming company.^[8] Following her exit from Kabam, Liu took on a role as a visiting partner at Y Combinator, an accelerator providing seeded funding to nearly 2,000 startups with a combined value of over $80 billion.^[1][9][10]

In June 2018 she was appointed Non-Executive Director and Strategic Adviser to Animoca's board of directors.^[2]

In 2019 Liu worked as an advisor on The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming platform.^[11]

She is currently a member on the advisory board at University of California, Berkeley School of Information.^[12]

She has been named one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming”, Forbes’ “12 Women in Gaming to Watch.” and Forbes - "10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch from Google Ventures' Portfolio Companies".^[13][14][15]

She was also named by Inc as a Top 10 female founder unicorn.^[16]

In 2018, she received the Technology Entrepreneurship Abie Award at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.^[17] She was also featured among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes.^[18]