Two former senior executives at US-based media company Disney’s corporate venturing unit and the former chief executive (CEO) of event tickets company Ticketmaster have set up venture firm Knightship.

Dan Beldy and Beau Laskey, veterans of Steamboat Ventures, and Sean Moriarty, Ticketmaster CEO from January 2007 to March 2009, have set up Knightship, which is named after a spaceship in UK mathematician John Horton Conway’s Game of Life.

Laskey said by e-mail the team was “using it for a…