Mark Laursen

Advisor · Founder · Executive Producer

Based in Portugal

From a Texas Instruments 99 to a Commodore 64, Amiga, and PC, I was writing games and shipping software before most people had internet access. Over the past two and a half decades, I have founded and co-founded more than ten companies across gaming, AI, entertainment, and technology.

My World of Warcraft teams won multiple world championships, including BlizzCon 2008. I competed in top-4 Counter-Strike, co-founded Nihilum, widely regarded as the greatest World of Warcraft guild in history, and built community platforms reaching over 40 million users. I pioneered live streaming technology with Xfire and Dyyno in 2008, years before Twitch existed.

Today I focus on AI applications, gaming ventures, and advising next-generation entertainment experiences. I am currently Executive Producer on multiple game titles, co-founder of TinyTaps, and creator of Govyn, an open-source AI agent governance proxy.

25+

Years in tech

40M+

Users reached

10+

Companies built

Acquisitions

Current Ventures

Executive Producer

NC Gaming

Leading production for Ezekiel: Noa and the Automaton Urbis, a third-person shooter RPG set in a steampunk-cyberpunk universe featuring an innovative moral AI system that dynamically shapes narrative outcomes.

Founder & Sole Developer

Govyn

Open-source AI agent governance proxy and commercial SaaS platform (Govyn Cloud). Agents receive scoped proxy tokens only. Policy bypass is architecturally impossible, not conventionally discouraged.

Co-Founder & Agent Architecture Lead

Stealth AI Venture

Building managed multi-agent LLM systems for non-technical markets. Designing the core agent construction pipeline grounded in 700+ research sources, with peer-based coordination architectures informed by DyLAN, MAST, and DeepMind 2025 scaling research.

Co-founder & Product Lead