Enry's Island's VC Revolution: A Bet on Gaming's Future

TREMITI ISLANDS, Italy – December 18, 2025 – In an audacious move that blurs the lines between high finance and high scores, Enry’s Island SpA (WBAG:EIOS), the world's first publicly listed venture builder, is charting a new course for Venture Capital. Buoyed by staggering financial growth, including a 250% year-over-year revenue surge and a stock price that has climbed 116% year-to-date, the company is now pivoting its entire deal flow strategy toward the multi-billion dollar gaming industry. The goal is not just to invest in games, but to use gaming as a tool to fundamentally reshape who gets to be an entrepreneur.

With a market cap that has swelled by 220% over the last 18 months and daily trading volumes peaking at over 1000% in the first half of 2025, Enry's Island is leveraging its momentum to launch what it calls the “VC Revolution.” This initiative aims to dismantle the exclusive, often opaque world of venture capital and make its principles accessible to a global audience of “long tail users”—individuals previously excluded by geography, wealth, or industry connections. The centerpiece of this revolution is a video game designed to teach the art and science of building a successful startup.

A Three-Layered Engine for Explosive Growth

The foundation of Enry's Island's remarkable performance is its proprietary “Enry’s Model,” a synergistic, three-layered business structure that has proven highly effective. This integrated ecosystem is designed to nurture startups from concept to public offering, creating value at every stage.

The top layer is the Business Layer, represented by Enry’s Island SpA itself. Acting as the core venture builder and VC operator, it secured a crucial $20 million Equity Round A from Los Angeles-based LDA Capital. This capital injection has fueled its ability to scout, fund, and scale a portfolio of companies, which has already yielded $3.6 million in exits via IPO, with one company going public in December 2024 and two more slated for 2026.

Supporting this is the Software Layer, HUI SpA (HUI:VSE), a powerhouse SaaS platform and SuperApp. Positioned to become for venture capital what BlackRock’s Aladdin is for institutional asset management, HUI provides an ERP-like system for startups and a monitoring and investment dashboard for investors. HUI's own performance is a testament to the model's success, having secured a $25 million Equity Round A from Miami's Nimbus Capital while boasting a 250% increase in revenues and a 350% expansion of its user base. Listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange since late 2024, its stock has seen a 15% appreciation, with a major platform upgrade, V3, scheduled for early 2026.

Completing the trifecta is the Space Layer, R5 Holding. This entity is pioneering the concept of “phygital distributed coworking,” blending physical workspaces with digital connectivity and luxury services for investors. R5 Holding has reportedly secured a massive $1 billion term sheet from a US fund and is targeting an IPO in the second half of 2026, promising to provide the physical and virtual infrastructure for this growing ecosystem.

The VC Revolution: Can a Video Game Democratize Startups?

While the financial results are impressive, it is the company's bold strategic pivot that is turning heads. Enry’s Island is launching its “VC Revolution” through a New York-based subsidiary, Enry’s Island AdVentures (EIA Holding LLC). The flagship project is the world's first business MMORPG designed to teach players how to launch and scale a startup.

“I agree with Elon Musk that the best way to teach is through a video game, and this is even more true when it comes to teaching startups how to execute well and avoid the most common mistakes,” stated Luigi Valerio Rinaldi, Chairman of Enry’s Island SpA, in a recent announcement. This vision, born from Rinaldi’s two decades in VC and four decades as a gamer, aims to codify the hard-won lessons of entrepreneurship into an interactive, engaging experience.

The game promises a sophisticated simulation where players manage evolving virtual businesses, using real-world KPIs and navigating a decentralized marketplace. The mission is explicitly democratizing, aiming to take innovation “to the streets (through Enry’s Stores) and into their phones (through our video game).” This bottom-up approach challenges the geographical concentration of capital and knowledge in hubs like Silicon Valley, based on the belief that true creativity often emerges from the peripheries.

Charting a "Blue Ocean": A $5M Bet on Gaming's Future

To fully commit to this vision, Enry’s Island is steering its entire deal flow strategy into what it calls a “Blue Ocean” in the gaming sector. The company is finalizing joint ventures with major international game studios and has announced plans to invest more than $5 million across 10 game studios in 2026. This positions Enry's Island as a potential first mover in structuring a venture capital model specifically for and through the gaming world, a space it believes has been overlooked by traditional VC firms in a structured manner.

The strategy's first major public test will be a US-based Kickstarter campaign for Enry’s Island AdVentures, planned for the first quarter of 2026. The campaign is set to have an international scope, involving veteran developers from the 1980s retro-gaming scene and influencers with massive followings. This crowdfunding initiative represents a perfect fusion of the company's financial and gaming ambitions, aiming to turn “gamers into shareholders and shareholders into gamers.” It’s a B2C transition that allows the public to directly fund and participate in the venture, further evolving the concept of venture capital itself.

Fortifying the Bridge Between Capital and Concept

To navigate this ambitious expansion, Enry’s Island has fortified its leadership, adding key figures with extensive international experience to its board. New members include Alessandro Pacciana, with a background as Head of Sales at international private banks, and Victor Pizzoni, an expert in corporate finance and capital markets. Their expertise is expected to provide the financial stewardship necessary to manage the company's rapid growth and complex international strategy.

This blend of top-down capability, supported by global partners like PwC and Accenture, with a bottom-up sensitivity toward the end-user creates a holistic ecosystem. It's a system where disruptive ideas, or 'concept,' can merge with 'capital' from a wide spectrum of sources—from large institutions to individual gamers on Kickstarter. By building this bridge, Enry’s Island is not just investing in the gaming space; it is attempting to build the most revolutionary ventures within it, fundamentally reshaping the future of venture capital.