Alex Singer

A news release issued by Voldex in 2025 states that Alex Singer founded Voldex in 2015 and that the company began as a game server developer on Minecraft; Voldex’s website also gives 2015 as the year of its founding.⁠[1][2]

Selwyn House School wrote in December 2023 that he is an alumnus of the school (“Alex Singer ’18,” class of 2018) and that in 2015, while in eighth grade at Selwyn House School, his entrepreneurial spirit and passion for gaming led him to create Voldex.⁠[3]

Sources differ on the age at which he started. Andrew ChenAndrew ChenAndrew Chen is a venture capitalist and writer who has been a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz since 2018 and leads a16z speedrun, its program for very early startups; he previously led rider growth at Uber, has long written about startups and growth, and is the author of The Cold Start Problem.Open the full entry and Jack Soslow of Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. It invests from the seed stage through the growth stage and provides operational support to its portfolio companies.Open the full entry wrote in January 2023 that he started at 13, after building many Minecraft games, and saw an opportunity to acquire and improve high-potential Minecraft servers and Roblox games; Game Developer wrote in May 2024 that he started a studio making user-generated-content games in Minecraft at age 14.⁠[4][5]

In a first-person Voldex news release of January 2023 that he signed, he wrote: “I personally have been creating, acquiring, and operating games in Minecraft and Roblox since I was an early teen”; the release adds that Voldex has been at the forefront of user-generated-content gaming since 2015.⁠[6]

The Voldex company page on the hiring platform Welcome to the Jungle lists him as founder and chief executive and states that he has been chief executive since he founded the company in 2015.⁠[7]

Voldex’s 2025 news release states that the company shifted its focus to Roblox in 2018, drawn by Roblox’s development tools and its built-in organic game discovery.⁠[1]

InvestGame writes that in February 2022 Voldex raised a $3 million seed round led by Dune Ventures, with Makers Fund, POW! Interactive and others taking part; the Voldex company page on Welcome to the Jungle likewise lists a $3 million early-stage venture round in February 2022.⁠[8][7]

A Bidease blog post of January 2026 states that in June 2022 Alexandre Singer pitched Voldex to Harry Bienenstock over LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry; the post describes Voldex that summer as a Roblox game studio with just 35 people and “a very young CEO”; Net Influencer wrote in August 2026 that he recruited Bienenstock to build Voldex’s marketing and analytics functions.⁠[9][10]

On January 24, 2023, Voldex issued a news release on Games Press, signed by him, announcing a Series A round of undisclosed size led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z); Dune Ventures, Makers Fund and POW Interactive continued as investors, Mitch Garber’s Lalotte Ventures came in as a new investor, and a16z general partner Andrew Chen joined Voldex’s board. The release states that the money would go toward growing the team, supporting existing games and acquiring user-generated-content games from other creators. The Block wrote the same day that Voldex is a game studio that acquires and improves existing games on user-generated-content platforms such as Roblox and Minecraft.⁠[6][11]

The games listed in the release include Driving Empire, ZO Samurai, Encounters, Base Battles and Cursed Islands (more than 350 million visits) on Roblox, and OneBlockMC, described as Minecraft’s largest one block game server; the release gives 14 million monthly unique players across these games, more than 1 million daily active users, 3.5 million members in Roblox groups and more than 400,000 Discord members. Team members named in the release include senior product manager Connor Zawadzki, a former Minecraft modder, and Harry Bienenstock, head of marketing and monetization.⁠[6]

In their investment post of the same day, Andrew Chen and Jack Soslow of Andreessen Horowitz call him “a true prodigy in the world of UGC game development” and write that he has scaled Voldex into a multimillion-dollar business, that Voldex’s game library serves more than 14 million monthly active users, and that the new funding would go toward more large game acquisitions and a larger team.⁠[4]

On February 8, 2023, the Thiel Foundation announced its next class of 20 Thiel Fellows, listing him second as “Alex Singer: Montreal, Quebec”; the announcement describes his project as Voldex, a game studio that acquires, improves and builds games on the user-generated-content game platforms Roblox and Minecraft. The announcement states that the Thiel Fellowship encourages talented young people with big ideas to start companies instead of attending college, that fellows receive $100,000 during the two-year program, and that the only requirement is that they pause college enrollment and focus exclusively on building their technology or company.⁠[12]

Selwyn House School quoted him in December 2023: “My journey is not standard because I received the Thiel Fellowship and dropped out of university to focus on my company, and that's ok”; the school wrote that he wants students to know his journey shows there are various paths to success after high school.⁠[3]

Selwyn House School wrote on December 1, 2023 that he had been named to the Forbes “30 Under 30” list for North America in the “Games” category, whose honorees ForbesForbesForbes is an American business media brand that began with Forbes magazine, founded by B.C. Forbes in 1917. It is known for rankings such as the Forbes 400, the World’s Billionaires list and 30 Under 30, and operates Forbes.com, ForbesLive events and licensed editions in 81 countries. Since 2014 a majority stake has been held by the Hong Kong investment group Integrated Whale Media; a 2021 plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange through a special purpose acquisition company was terminated in 2022. It is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.Open the full entry described as leaders in technological and artistic innovation; the school wrote that Voldex makes games for Roblox and Fortnite and had grown from a small startup into a company with 60 employees and venture capital investment.⁠[3]

On February 12, 2024, Forbes Kazakhstan published a Russian-language version of the 13th annual American Forbes “30 Under 30” list (600 people from 20 fields), which lists in its “ИГРЫ” (Games) category “Алекс Сингер, 22 / Основатель Voldex” (Alex Singer, 22, founder of Voldex).⁠[13]

Game Developer senior editor Bryant Francis wrote on May 1, 2024 that at the 2024 Game Developers Conference the 22-year-old Voldex chief executive Alex Singer and Voldex chief product officer Andrew Rose, a former senior director of product at Zynga, had just given a talk on what free-to-play developers need to know about getting onto Roblox; afterwards the two were surrounded by a small crowd of attendees for about 15 minutes. The article describes him as a minor celebrity in the Roblox community and as one of a creative class that moved quickly from young player to skilled developer without any filtering from the professional world, so that he is fluent in how Roblox players socialize with each other and with the developers of their favorite games.⁠[5]

“On so many other platforms, people are mostly playing a game,” he said, whereas on Roblox a third of Voldex’s returning players are just socializing. The article states that Voldex’s analysis of returning players in Driving Empire and Dungeon Quest found that many of them log in without completing a core action, and he and Andrew Rose said that most of Voldex’s revenue comes from creating and selling avatar items to players who socialize in its games. Of the platform fee that Roblox Corp. collects on every transaction, he said that it covers “things we would otherwise have to pay for.” The article states that Voldex was then making driving games, racing sims and dungeon crawlers.⁠[5]

InvestGame writes that Voldex acquired Ultimate Football in April 2024; Net Influencer writes that Ultimate Football was later renamed NFLNFLThe NFL (National Football League) is a U.S. professional American football league of 32 clubs. Founded in 1920 as the APFA and renamed in 1922, it is organized into the AFC and NFC, with the season culminating in the Super Bowl.Open the full entry Universe Football.⁠[8][10]

A news release issued by Voldex in February 2025 under a London dateline announced the acquisition of Brookhaven, the most visited game on Roblox. The release states that Brookhaven was created by Wolfpaq in 2020, that it is the largest life simulation title on Roblox, with 60 billion visits and more than 120 million monthly active players, and that it has been a consistent top-three game on Roblox by concurrent users; Voldex estimated that the acquisition took it to more than 145 million monthly active users, making it the largest developer on Roblox by audience. The release adds that Voldex had 60 full-time team members and was among the top-grossing Roblox developers. PocketGamer.biz covered the acquisition on February 5, 2025, noting that the fee was undisclosed.⁠[1][14]

The acquisition was funded through Voldex’s recent capital raises: an equity financing led by Raine Partners, the flagship growth equity fund of The Raine Group, with Makers Fund, QIAQatar Investment AuthorityQatar Investment Authority (QIA) is the wealth manager for the State of Qatar, investing the State’s surpluses with the overarching objective of creating long-term value. It is headquartered in Doha.Open the full entry, MITMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It received its charter from Massachusetts in 1861, admitted its first students in 1865 and moved from Boston to its present campus in 1916. As of October 2025 it had 11,816 students, and it counts 106 Nobel laureates among members of its community.Open the full entry, Tirta Ventures and Lalotte Ventures taking part, and a debt financing led by Shamrock Capital with participation from Ares ManagementAres ManagementAres Management is an alternative asset manager founded in 1997 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014, with businesses spanning credit, real assets, secondaries, and private equity. As of June 30, 2026, the company’s assets under management were $671.319 billion, of which the private equity business accounted for $24.451 billion.Open the full entry Credit funds and Cadma Capital Partners. Dara Leung, a managing director at Raine, joined Voldex’s board, and partner Todd Rosoff became a board observer. The law firm Gunderson Dettmer wrote on February 4, 2025 that it had represented Voldex in the acquisition, in a Series B equity financing led by Raine Partners and in the debt financing led by Shamrock Capital. InvestGame described Voldex on February 10, 2025 as a Canada-based developer and wrote that the price was undisclosed but estimated at above $100 million.⁠[1][14][15][8]

As Voldex’s founder and chief executive he said in the release, “This acquisition is transformational for Voldex,” adding that Voldex was honored that Wolfpaq had entrusted it with Brookhaven and was committed to being a great steward of the world the creator had built and of its community. In the release, Wolfpaq expressed excitement about Voldex continuing to build on what makes Brookhaven fun for players worldwide.⁠[1][14]

As of November 2026, Voldex’s website presents Brookhaven, Driving Empire and NFL Universe Football on Roblox as its main games, states that its games have more than 170 million monthly active players, and offers brands integrations into top Roblox games; the site states the aim to “build the #1 games company on Roblox,” and its footer carries the name Voldex Entertainment Ltd.⁠[16]

Net Influencer wrote in August 2026 that Voldex acquires Roblox games that already have established communities and then builds a dedicated team to run each of them, and that, by the company’s account, its three main games reach more than 160 million players a month; it had put a multidisciplinary team of more than 35 people on Brookhaven and moved the game from Wolfpaq’s biweekly update schedule to a weekly one; Voldex had earlier developed original games alongside acquired titles before concluding that live-operated games with existing communities were more predictable. The brand partners named in the article include the NFL, NASCAR, NBCUniversal and The LEGO Group, and Driving Empire’s partnership with NASCAR won two Roblox Innovation Awards; a Bidease blog post identifies them as the 2025 awards for Best Driving Game and Best Collaboration.⁠[10][9]

The Voldex company page on the hiring platform Welcome to the Jungle gives the company’s size as 101–200 employees, states that it works fully remotely, and gives its mission as acquiring and sustainably growing Roblox titles.⁠[7]

Thiel Fellowship: Official website: https://thielfellowship.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[17]

Voldex: Official website: https://voldex.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[16]