Sami Chlagou

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Sami Chlagou is CEO and Co-Founder of Cross The Ages, a Marseille-based cross-media project combining a blockchain-powered trading card game with novels, comics, and planned TV and film productions, which he co-founded in October 2020 alongside Richard Esteve. Cross The Ages uses NFT-based cards as the primary vehicle for navigating its fictional universe, with Chlagou identifying the card game format as the most suitable application for blockchain technology. The project has raised $15.5M across two funding rounds and has minted five million tokens.

Prior to Cross The Ages, Chlagou spent approximately eight years in film production before transitioning to the video games industry, where he has worked for over eleven years. During that period, he founded or co-founded several companies based in the Marseille region, including Rushongame, a private video game sales platform founded in 2013; Pixelheart, an independent games distributor, where he holds an Associate Founder role from 2019; and Storybird, a video game production company focused on next-generation consoles, where he serves as General Manager from 2018. He states he has founded six international development studios since 2015 and launched more than 50 video games. He has also made two angel and seed-stage investments, including a 2024 angel investment in InterCellar. He holds a degree from KEDGE Business School and has spoken at TEDx. He has been listed in Le Point's Inventeurs selection and Choiseul 2025, and serves as a Board Member of FrenchTech. He is scheduled to speak at CartoonNext 2026 on the subject of Cross The Ages and its cross-media approach.

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