Erik Gloersen

About

Erik Gloersen has had a three-decade-long career in the video game industry, starting as the founder and CEO of FunCom in Norway in the early 90s. He has experience turning around struggling studios, including Looking Glass (Thief series, System Shock 2), Epic Games’ studio People Can Fly (Bulletstorm, Gears of War), and 2K Czech during the development of Mafia 3. He also worked with larger companies like Atari and EA. In 2017, Erik left Take Two and helped launch four new studios, including Smirk Game Studios in Prague. After assisting Neon Giant and Exit Plan in raising money from Sisu Game Ventures, he joined Sisu as a General Partner in 2020. As an early-stage investor, his goal is to help founders build companies that can create games that people want to play.