Lachlan Gowrie-Smith

Investor at mod.io

Lachlan Gowrie-Smith is a seasoned investment professional and entrepreneur with extensive experience in the gaming and digital technology sectors. As the Founding Partner of GameTech Ventures since September 2018, Lachlan focuses on investing in innovative games technologies. Additionally, Lachlan serves on the boards of Amutri and Karta, and holds various investment roles at firms including Move.ai, mod.io, Anything World, PlusMusic, and Scriptic. Prior to these roles, Lachlan was the Head of Special Projects at Gfinity Plc, an esports media and technology company, and was involved in product development and strategy at Magnetise Group. Lachlan holds a Master of Science in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance from the University of Bristol.

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mod.io

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mod.io is cross-platform mod support and user-generated content (UGC) service created by the team behind ModDB. It’s designed for studios that want to enable their community’s creativity on PC, console, and mobile. Since its launch in 2019, it has been used by more than 50 games to power their mod and creator communities, with 400,000 usersaccessing the platform daily. Together they have created 600,000 pieces of content, with over 100 million mods installed total. mod.io offers an automated, scalable, easy to implement a way to tap into the goodwill and growth UGC can drive and is designed for the modern game that values long-term user engagement and creator economies.