69 Best Social Gaming Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Social Gaming Startups

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There are 2,700 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $19.8b. The average funding per company in this subset is $287.5m.

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Funding Rounds

$910.0m

Money raised

An end-to-end blockchain and NFT solution for video games.

1

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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

9

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$454.1m

Money raised

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.

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Funding Rounds

$1.7b

Money raised

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.

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2

Funding Rounds

$3.6m

Money raised

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

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7

Funding Rounds

$612.4m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$110.0m

Money raised

Clubhouse is a San Francisco-based social app offering a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people.

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8

Funding Rounds

$99.0m

Money raised

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

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9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$9.5m

Money raised

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

5

Funding Rounds

$286.0m

Money raised

Quora is a question-and-answer website founded in 2010 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.

2

Funding Rounds

$8.5m

Money raised

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

6

Funding Rounds

$168.0m

Money raised

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.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

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

3

Funding Rounds

$22.8m

Money raised

Distil Networks was an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5

Funding Rounds

$86.0m

Money raised

Strivr is a Menlo Park, California-based developer of a virtual reality platform for learning and training employees.

2

Funding Rounds

$16.7m

Money raised

About.me is a company that has developed a platform for users to make personal and professional websites.

1

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$1.0m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$638.8m

Money raised

TradingView is a platform which provides instruments for publication and the viewing of trading ideas.

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9

Funding Rounds

$312.9m

Money raised

Prosper is an online peer-to-peer lending marketplace connecting people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions who want to lend money.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0b

Money raised

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

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5

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

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

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1

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South Pole is a Zurich-based climate solutions company offering sustainable project development services in order to provide carbon offset credits to businesses and organizations.

7

Funding Rounds

$194.0m

Money raised

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

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5

Funding Rounds

$8.4m

Money raised

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

4

Funding Rounds

$370.0m

Money raised

IRL was a social media company with the purpose of connecting users in real life, or "IRL," through in-person events.

4

Funding Rounds

$11.2m

Money raised

Misterb&b offers a property rental marketplace used to connect travelers and hosts in the LGBTQ+ community.

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8

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

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4

Funding Rounds

$30.4m

Money raised

Moz is a company developing and providing inbound marketing analytics software.

2

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$10.8m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.8m

Money raised

HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.

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2

Funding Rounds

$12.2m

Money raised

Haptik is a company developing conversational AI for customer experience.

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4

Funding Rounds

$65.0m

Money raised

Blackshark.ai is an artificial intelligence geospatial intelligence company that extracts information from satellite and aerial imagery at a global scale using machine learning.

6

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

Investing tool and Public Benefit Corporation that emphasizes social responsibility.

4

Funding Rounds

$95.2m

Money raised

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

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4

Funding Rounds

$17.0m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$30.6m

Money raised

Badoo is a dating-focused social networking service.

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3

Funding Rounds

$12.3m

Money raised

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.

3

Funding Rounds

$807.0k

Money raised

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

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8

Funding Rounds

$863.8m

Money raised

Weee! is an Asian and Hispanic grocer in North America, founded by Larry Liu.

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2

Funding Rounds

$110.3m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

Money raised

Fnatic is a professional eSports organization with headquarters in London.

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3

Funding Rounds

$14.0m

Money raised

Lenddo EFL offers loans underwritten by social media data to borrowers without established or robust credit histories.

2

Funding Rounds

$27.7m

Money raised

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

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7

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

Dataminr is a company providing a real-time AI platform delivering information on high-impact events and breaking news.

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5

Funding Rounds

$3.4b

Money raised

OYO is a south East Asian hospitality company.

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3

Funding Rounds

$400.0k

Money raised

Buffer is a company founded by Joel Gascoigne, Leo Widrich and Tom Moor.

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5

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

An app that aggregates social media data to produce a real-time map of sickness.

5

Funding Rounds

$373.0m

Money raised

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

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Vyond is a video animation software company.

3

Funding Rounds

$95.5m

Money raised

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

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5

Funding Rounds

$528.0m

Money raised

Zomato is a company providing a search engine application that offers information on restaurants and online food delivery.

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3

Funding Rounds

$31.0m

Money raised

Azimo is an online remittance service founded by Marta Krupinska.

4

Funding Rounds

$59.5m

Money raised

Calaxy Inc., is a US company developing the Calaxy app, an open social marketplace for creators.

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2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Neighborly drives investment in world-positive infrastructure projects like broadband, solar microgrids, and libraries.

5

Funding Rounds

$502.3m

Money raised

A company with a car-sharing platform and hardware. It was founded in 2009 and is located in San Francisco, California.

4

Funding Rounds

$48.0m

Money raised

Hearsay Systems (formerly Hearsay Social) is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) digital marketing platform for financial services that uses predictive analytics to help financial advisors automate marketing tasks.

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2

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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

2

Funding Rounds

$36.0m

Money raised

WorkSpan is a company and business ecosystem platform designed to help technology companies grow revenue by co-selling with their partnered companies.

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3

Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

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

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2

Funding Rounds

$55.5m

Money raised

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.

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$490.0k

Money raised

One Planet Pizza is a company making plant-based pizza founded in 2016.

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

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