28 Best Video game Startups to Watch in 2024
The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Video game Startups
We track 18,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.
The Seedtable database reveals 28 startups in the Video game industry, who have collectively secured $633M in funding with the average funding per startup standing at $22.6M. Seedtable has compiled profiles on 14 founders and executives for these startups.
Last update to the database: Sep 17, 2024. See changelog.
Displaying 28 out of 28 Companies
| Company | Score | Funding | Investors | Employees | Industries | Business Model | Location | Likely To Outsource | Contact | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PortalOne PortalOne is a gaming startup delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity. | 52 | $75.0M Series A | 5 | 11 - 50 | Video game | Oslo, Norway | Hiring, Marketing, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, B... | *****@portalone.com | ||
Dream Games Dream Games is a Turkey-based mobile game development company. | 48 | $467M Series A | 2 | 51 - 200 | Video game | Istanbul, Turkey | Hiring, Marketing, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, B... | s***r@dreamgames.com | ||
Netspeak Games Ltd Developer of multiplayer games intended to bring players together. The company operates a game studio to create immersive non-violent multiplayer video games designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends on mobile and computer platforms, enabling players to gain meaningful experiences and create inclusive communities. | 41 | $15.8M Series A | 2 | 11 - 50 | Video game | London, UK | Design, Software Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Cybersecu... | c****m@netspeakgames.com | ||
Darewise Entertainment Darewise Entertainment is a platform providing interactive, socially-connected online gaming experiences founded in 2015. | 25 | 11 - 50 | Video game | Paris, France | b******n@darewise.com | |||||
Wooga Wooga is a german company founded in 2009 by Jens Begemann. | 25 | 201 - 500 | Video game | Berlin, Germany | ||||||
1047 Games 1047 Games is a Zephyr Cove, Nevada-based company. | 15 | Video game | , | |||||||
Gigster B2B company providing on-demand software developers, designers, and product managers. | 15 | 11 - 50 | Video game | San Francisco, United States | ||||||
Mojiworks Mojiworks is a Guildford-based company founded in 2016 by Alan Harding. | 15 | Video game | , | |||||||
Mythical Games Mythical Games is a Los Angeles-based video game development company developing games for playable non-fungible tokens to identify game characters that players can own and offers players a secondary market. | 15 | 51 - 200 | Video game | Los Angeles, United States | ||||||
Machinima (company) Machinima is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2004 by Strange Company, Third Wave Digital and Philip DeBevoise. | 15 | 51 - 200 | Video game | Los Angeles, United States | ||||||
Big Fish Games Big Fish Games is a Seattle-based company founded in 2002 by Paul Thelen. | 15 | 201 - 500 | Video game | Seattle, United States | ||||||
PlayVS PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students. | 15 | Video game | , | |||||||
NaturalMotion Games NaturalMotion Games is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2001. | 15 | 201 - 500 | Video game | , | ||||||
Microsoft Microsoft is an American multinational technology company that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. | 15 | Video game | , | |||||||
Slack Slack Technologies, also known as Slack, was a company operating a messaging platform that enables teams to communicate. It provides real-time messaging, archiving, and searching services. The Slack platform has been owned by Salesforce since 2021 when Salesforce acquired Slack Technologies. | 0 | Video game | , | |||||||
Hoolai Games Hoolai Games is a Beijing-based company founded in 2011. | 0 | 11 - 50 | Video game | Beijing, China | ||||||
Electronic Arts Electronic Arts is a Redwood City, California-based company in the video game industry founded in 1982 by Trip Hawkins, Jeff Burton and Stewart J Bonn | 1 | Video game | , | |||||||
Pocket Gems Pocket Gems is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2009. | 0 | 51 - 200 | Video game | San Francisco, United States | ||||||
Rec Room Rec Room is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 by Nick Fajt, Dan Kroymann, Bilal Orhan, Cameron Brown, John Bevis and Josh Wehrly. | 0 | 51 - 200 | Video game | Seattle, United States | ||||||
district0x A network of decentralized marketplaces and communities built on the d0xINFRA framework. | 0 | 1 - 10 | Video game | San Francisco, United States | ||||||
Atari Atari is a third party video game developer, publisher, and distributor. | 0 | 11 - 50 | Video game | , | ||||||
N3TWORK N3TWORK is a company founded in 2013 by Neil Young, Bob Stevenson, Erik Lammerding, Steve Detwiler and Alan Yu. | 0 | Video game | , | |||||||
Open Drives Open Drives is a Santa Monica, California-based company founded in 2011 by Kyle Jackson. | 0 | Video game | , | |||||||
51wan 51wan is a Beijing-based company. | 0 | Video game | Beijing, China | |||||||
Plain Vanilla (company) Plain Vanilla is an Iceland-based company founded in 2011. | 0 | 51 - 200 | Video game | , | ||||||
mo9 (moKredit) mo9 is a Shanghai-based company. | 0 | Video game | Shanghai, China | |||||||
Thatgamecompany Thatgamecompany is a video game development studio founded in 2006 by Jenova Chen. | 0 | 51 - 200 | Video game | , | ||||||
Playco Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms. | 0 | 51 - 200 | Video game | , |
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