Co-Founder & COO, SPARQ

Christoffer Wilhelmsen

Norwegian tech entrepreneur, Co-Founder and COO of SPARQ, the AI-native game engine backed by Andreessen Horowitz.

Building the platform that puts game creation into the hands of 250 million creators. Norwegian entrepreneur based in Dubai, UAE.

Christoffer Wilhelmsen
Dubai · UAE2026
3M+
Lines of engine code
6,000+
Creators on waitlist
$8.5M
Seed round

01 / About

I build companies at the intersection of AI and interactive entertainment. Right now, that means SPARQ, an AI-native game engine designed so any creator can build, publish, and monetise a professional game without a studio, without a production army, and without writing a line of code.

We self-funded $2.5M, wrote 3 million lines of proprietary engine code using a methodology we call Code Diffusion, and assembled a team of 20+ senior engineers before taking a single dollar of outside money. Andreessen Horowitz was our first external investor.

Before SPARQ, I served as COO of NeuralAI, an AI-powered gaming infrastructure platform. I hold an LLB in Law from University College London, an MSc in Development Economics from NHH Norwegian School of Economics, and studied economics at Harvard University. I’m Norwegian, based in Dubai, and convinced that the best tech companies of the next decade will be built from the UAE.

02 / Ventures

SPARQCurrent
Co-Founder & COO · 2024 – Present

AI-native game creation platform positioned between Unreal Engine and Roblox. SPARQ enables individual creators and small teams to build professional-quality games using AI-powered development tools. No code, no engineers, no production pipelines.

Backed by
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Team
20+ people
HQ
Innovation City, RAK, UAE
playsparq.com ↗︎
NeuralAIPrevious
COO

AI-powered gaming infrastructure platform. Led operations during a period of rapid growth, scaling the technical and operational foundation of the platform.

goneural.ai ↗︎

03 / Press & Writing

Featured in

23 entries

04 / Education

NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Bachelor of Science · Economics

Activities: Board member business committee, American Football

University College London (UCL)

LLB · Law

Harvard University

Exchange Programme · Economics

05 / Speaking

Building in the UAE: Opportunities, Challenges, and Market Entry Insights

Panel · World Token Summit x TheBlock.Festival · 1 May 2026 · One Central, Dubai World Trade Centre

Panel discussion on founding and scaling technology companies from the UAE, alongside speakers from Innovation City, IoPn, and Uptex.

06 / Contact

Get in touch

Available for interviews, panel discussions, keynote presentations, podcast appearances, and opinion contributions.