Holly Liu
Holly Liu | |
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| Education | Master's degree in Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley; Bachelor's degree in Communications and East Asian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, venture capitalist |
| Known for | Co-founder of Kabam; Non-Executive Director and Strategic Adviser at Animoca |
Holly Liu is a prominent American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. She is the co-founder of the mobile gaming enterprise Kabam and presently holds the positions of Non-Executive Director and Strategic Adviser on the board of Animoca.
Education
Liu completed her master's degree in Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley, following a bachelor's degree in Communications and East Asian Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Career
In 2006, Liu co-established Kabam, a company recognized for titles like Kingdoms of Camelot, The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth, and Marvel Contest of Champions. She served as the lead designer for Kingdoms of Camelot, which amassed over $250 million in revenue within four years. Liu was instrumental in expanding Kabam’s yearly earnings from inception to $400 million. Additionally, she developed the Battle for the North expansion, which propelled Kingdoms of Camelot to become the top-grossing app on iPhone and iPad in 2012.
In January 2017, Netmarble, South Korea’s largest mobile gaming corporation, acquired the majority of Kabam’s assets. Following her departure from Kabam, Liu took on a role as visiting partner at Y Combinator, an accelerator that has supported nearly 2,000 startups with a combined valuation exceeding $80 billion.
By June 2018, she joined the board of Animoca as a Non-Executive Director and Strategic Adviser.
In 2019, Liu contributed advisory expertise to The Sandbox, a decentralized gaming ecosystem.
She currently participates on the advisory board for the University of California, Berkeley School of Information.
Recognition
Liu has been honored as one of Fortune’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming,” included in Forbes’ list of “12 Women in Gaming to Watch,” as well as Forbes' "10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch from Google Ventures' Portfolio Companies."
Her achievements also earned her recognition by Inc as one of the Top 10 female founders leading unicorn companies.
In 2018, she was awarded the Technology Entrepreneurship Abie Award at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and was named among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by Forbes.