Justice For Beyond Gaming

We need your help to seek justice for our small business. The team at Beyond Gaming invented a way for people to bet on video games. Eager to build our business, we had hired executives to help our business grow. However, we have alleged that those executives walked away with our inventions and left our company in ruins. One of the executives has since been denied a gaming license renewal in Nevada because of what he did to us and was fired from the new company those executives formed. Now we are seeking justice. We have engaged a well-known IP attorney who has taken this case forward on a percentage basis only. But we need to hire litigators to proceed with civil actions. As you know, legal fees are expensive and we truly need your help to fight this and fix the wrongs that these shameless executives allegedly did to our small business. Below is an explanation of what happened and how you can help.

 

Justin is an avid gamer, union carpenter, and father of three in Toledo, Ohio. In 2009, he had a vision to create an easy way for people to bet on video games and play in tournaments to win money. He asked his friend Dan for help to build the software. As an experienced website builder, Dan said yes. We formed a company called Beyond Gaming with Justin’s brother-in-law, Tony, as the CEO. After receiving a grant from the City of Toledo and investments from Justin’s family, we built the first version of our platform. Our users loved it. Thousands of gamers were using our online platform to win money and prizes playing video games.

Short Story: We allege and can prove that executives from our company bankrupted us and took our inventions and labors as a foundation for their own new company. They have received tens of millions of dollars from the technology we allege was stolen from us. Help us fight back.

 

Here is a short video we made in 2010 promoting Beyond Gaming:

 

 

We then raised around $1,500,000 from venture capitalist investors to expand our software and hire a team of people to work on Beyond Gaming in-house. That team quickly became a family. The Beyond Gaming platform had hundreds of thousands of users winning money and prizes playing video games. We were also hosting tournaments for some of the largest video game companies in the world. As we grew, Tony stepped down as CEO. The Beyond Gaming board, which consisted of people from the venture capitalist companies, hired someone we believed to have more executive experience to replace him.

 

Justin and Dan always talked about expanding their company to offer ways for people to win money playing video games in-person. In December 2013, Beyond Gaming hosted a series of Casino Nights in Detroit, Michigan that did just that. We had four different video game gambling prototypes where people could bet on their video game play. Everyone loved it. We knew we were on to something.

 

Here is a short video showcasing our Casino Nights:

 

 

In January 2014, Beyond Gaming developed a video game slot machine that automated one of the Video Game Gambling prototypes from the Casino Nights. Justin, Dan, and the rest of the team built a prototype Video Game Gambling Machine called the “VGM.” People loved our new prototype, including big casino companies. We had one of the largest casino companies in the world telling us they wanted to get our VGMs on their casino floors as soon as possible.

 

Watch this short video showing and explaining our VGM:

 

 

Even though we had invented a way for people to win money playing video games in real life and companies wanted to invest in or buy Beyond Gaming, the executives in charge did not accept the offers and suggested that sufficient money could not be raised to continue our company. Around June 2014, some of the new executives of Beyond Gaming offered to buy our assets, including the VGM invention, for their new company for less than 3% of the capital we had already raised. We refused that offer since it was so low. Beyond Gaming was later forced into bankruptcy and our VGM prototypes were allegedly misappropriated by these executives. Our portable travel prototype was kept and used by them and the large wooden prototype seen in the video above was destroyed by them. While Beyond Gaming was in existence and the executives had created their own gaming company, we have alleged that at least one of those executives was raising funds for the new company marketing the Beyond Gaming assets as his own.

 

Beyond Gaming was shuttered after 5 years, devastating a close-knit team in Toledo, Ohio. One team member even spent months in the hospital for mental health treatment due to the devastating impact of having his dreams decimated. There were many successes and some failures by our company, but overall, we did some amazing things and our company created some great experiences for our players and advances in technology.

 

The new company, formed and operated by executives concurrently holding titles with both the new company and Beyond Gaming, excluded Justin, Dan, and the rest of the team from the new company. That new company, using the technology and strategies of Beyond Gaming (even obtaining patents we allege to have fraudulently excluded the actual inventors from Beyond Gaming), has received over $80,000,000 in investment that we alleged was based on the Beyond Gaming VGM Intellectual Property. This occurred during and after these executives were alleged to have been “double-dealing” as concurrent officers in competing companies. The new company currently has VGMs on casino floors around the United States and has received 2 patents for the VGM based on Beyond Gaming technology, including a document created at Beyond Gaming describing the VGM. Justin and Dan first learned about the patents in January 2020 from an independent online journalist. The new company used those patents as a registered security on a $35,000,000 investment. Remember that Beyond Gaming was offered $50,000 for their assets by the new company executives.

 

Beginning in January 2020, the truth started coming to light. The Nevada Gaming Commission denied the gaming license renewal for one of the individuals who started the new company due to the activities described above. We have since collected and organized mountains of evidence, including emails, videos, telephone recordings, and more artifacts detailing what we allege was and is a flagrant continuing conspiracy to commercialize and monetize our Beyond Gaming Intellectual Property.

 

Dan and Justin are currently working with a well-known patent attorney, who has represented us thus far without any pay on a very low contingency, percentage, basis. He has already done, and is going to do and continue to manage, the majority of the legal work, having already filed both criminal and administrative complaints in multiple jurisdictions. However, we need more legal help from litigation attorneys to file civil actions. This is where you come in. We need to raise $250,000 to pay for a portion of the legal fees to fight against the people who stole our dreams, destroyed lives, and continue to profit from these alleged actions. We need to initiate our civil litigation before December 2021 due to the statute of limitation for this particular action.

 

Every dollar donated to this cause will be used to try to mediate wrongs done to a very good group of Beyond Gaming founders, employees, and investors. We will make everyone involved with Beyond Gaming, who poured their life into these inventions and IP, whole with any sums awarded to us. Justin has a family and Dan and his wife are expecting their first baby September 30th, so any money awarded by judgment or from the case will be used to make a better life for their families and ease the pain caused to everyone at Beyond Gaming by the alleged rogue executives. We will also try to recover the monies from the executives that we allege wrongly profited so greatly from our dreams and years of effort.

 

Whether you are a gamer or not, we are asking you to donate what you can and share this campaign with your friends. Every dollar helps, but if you cannot personally donate anything, we pray that you share this GoFundMe campaign on your social media everywhere you can. It literally means the world to us. We need your help. Our motto at Beyond Gaming is “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work.” Please, let’s all come together and help correct this terrible situation.

 

Here is a long video of a meeting with the Nevada Gaming Commission

that gives an example of the type of wrongs we allege were done to us by one of the executives:

Link to Nevada Gaming Commission video

 

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