69 Best Gaming Startups to Watch in 2025

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Fractal is a gaming marketplace developed to facilitate non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

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.

Discord is an American company that offers users a free messenger with support for IP telephony and video conferencing. About 56 million people use the Discord messenger every month, and its total audience exceeds 270 million users.

Splinterlands is a digital trading card game built on blockchain technology.

Dapper Labs is a software developer that creates blockchain-based video games and platforms.

Hadean is a venture-backed computing technology company that aims to make the nature of computing more accessible.

Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.

Ultiverse is a company that is working to connect Web3 with a virtual reality-compatible world.

DeHorizon is committed to becoming the next generation of Metaverse Game Ecosystem, where players can immersively create, socialize, entertain with other peer players.

Developer of fully interactive advanced lab simulations designed to create scalable science training software. The company's simulations offer a virtual laboratory based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations along with molecular three-dimension animations, quiz questions, and background theory.

P2E game build on Solana blockchain. Grab your mask and start your journey - level up from card strategy battle game to full MMO glory!

Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website.

Razer is a United States-based company founded in 2005 by Min-Liang Tan.

Khan Academy is a nonprofit online educational organization that was founded in 2008.

Donut Lab is a mobile game developer of the Donut Punks action game.

Rec Room is a Seattle-based augmented and virtual reality software company.

Speech recognition software that provides voice-enabled experiences for kids of all ages, accents, and dialects while prioritizing privacy.

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

Stardust is a company that develops solutions for gaming in the metaverse.

The Ajuna platform provides a simplified way for Unreal and Unity developers to build an incentive layer into their games using tokenized virtual goods.

Mavia is a multiplayer allotment-based strategy game that allows players to build, develop their army, and own property using in-game resources and the RUBY cryptocurrency.

Haptik is a company developing conversational AI for customer experience.

VRChat is a virtual reality communications platform. It was founded in 2014 and is located in San Francisco, California.

American technology company, and its android emulator for windows and mac

Zeedz is a play-for-purpose, NFT collectible game, in which players reduce global carbon emissions by collecting plant-inspired creatures: Zeedles.

Upland is a property trading metaverse connected to real-world addresses.

CodeCombat is a company providing a multiplayer programming game for learning how to to code. It teaches Python, JavaScript, and other languages directly in the browser. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

MetaPals is a browser extension that allows users to interact and grow virtual pets directly from their web browser windows.

Big Time is a multiplayer action RPG that makes collectable NFTs accessible to everyone.

Fnatic is a professional eSports organization with headquarters in London.

One More Game is a Seattle-based startup that specializes in the development of online video games.

Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.

PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.

Mundfish is a game development studio specializing in the production of role playing games.

Developing a AAA Multiplayer Shooter powered by blockchain, creative modding, and true digital ownership.

Rainway is a Seattle-based developer of real-time, low-latency tools for streaming, intended for developers and organizations to develop interactive streaming.

StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform. StartEngine allows non accredited investors invest online, own shares in startups and early growth companies. Over 150 Startups and entrepreneurs have been funded on StartEngine.

Atirath is a Hyderabad, India-based mobile game development company developing puzzle, casual, and strategy games.

A brain-computer interface company building software and hardware products, neurotechnology tools that interpret human intent, measure emotion and provide telekinetic control of the digital world based on EEG signals.

The 3D NFT Marketplace for Building the Metaverse

U.S-based company providing cloud infrastructure for global software and hardware development and deployment.

Jumio is a company offering a platform for identity verification founded in 2010.

Give Crypto is a charitable organization distributing small payments to individuals in need, using cryptocurrencies.

Lava Labs is a game development studio.

Open-world P2E mechanized combat game built on the blockchain. Fight for your faction, declare war, and seize enemy land for ultimate supremacy.

Twin Suns Corp. is a Bainbridge Island, Washington-based video game development studio developing action games for console and PC.

Winzo is an India-based gaming and entertainment platform.

ArenaX Labs is a company that specializes in game development.

Horizon's Sequence platform will provide a scalable Ethereum architecture for third-parties to build and launch decentralized games that are provably fair, enable true digital ownership, and that reward activity by players on the network.

Statespace is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2017 by Jay Fuller and Wayne Mackey.

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Esports One, the first all-in-one fantasy esports platform with real-time predictive data, today added $4 million in additional funding led by XSeed Capital, Eniac Ventures, and Chestnut Street Ventures. Now, with new funding and new partnerships in place, the company will expand its platform access to global event organizers and support new gam...

GamingFrog is a Boca Raton, Florida-based competitive gaming platform that allows individuals and communities to compete in competitive tournaments for money.

Independent, innovative, and utterly player-focused; we are a AAA video game developer passionate about creating next-generation experiences that players will remember forever.

Sphero is an educational toy company founded in 2010 by Ian Bernstein.

Faceit is an independent competitive gaming platform.

Volley is an entertainment company that develops voice-activated games and apps for Amazon Alexa and Google Home.

OneSignal is a multi-platform service for pushing notifications and emails.

A mobile application company connecting gamers to like-minded teammates. Its headquarters are located in New York City, New York and the company was founded in 2018.

Heavy Rain is a video game founded in 2018 by Manoj Duggirala.

Ampverse is a Singapore-based company founded in 2019 by Ferdinand Gutierrez.

Midnight is a web3-focused game studio and social hub, as well as a non-fungible token marketplace.

Bugsnag is an error monitoring platform for mobile, server, and browser applications based in San Francisco.

Polemos is a global GameFi platform that is a decentralized combination of its own asset lending library, educational hub, and gaming community.

Digital Chocolate is a San Mateo, California-based company founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins.

ZTX is a company developing a Web3 metaverse platform featuring an immersive 3D virtual world.

Blockade Games specializes in integrating blockchain and alternate reality components into puzzles and games.

PopBase is a California-based SaaS platform that offers a wellness focused, subscription-based, interactive education experience for children and their caretakers.