69 Best Video Game Startups to Watch in 2024

Azra Games is a blockchain-based developer of collectible and combat games.

Total Raised: $57.70M

Last Funding: $42.70M (Series A)

Dream Games is a Turkey-based mobile game development company.

Total Raised: $467.50M

Last Funding: $255.00M (Series C)

PortalOne is a gaming startup delivering live game experiences with stunning visuals and next level interactivity.

Total Raised: $75.00M

Last Funding: $60.00M (Series A)

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.

Total Raised: $15.80M

Last Funding: $12.00M (Series A)

Video game development platform using user-generated content (UGC).

Total Raised: $4.45M

Last Funding: $4.45M (Seed)

Zynga is a provider of social game services founded in 2007 by Mark Pincus, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, Steve Schoettler and Eric Schiermeyer.

Total Raised: $35.00M

Last Funding: $25.00M (Series B)

codeSpark is a company founded in 2014.

Total Raised: $2.50M

Last Funding: $2.50M (Seed)

Open, social and persistent VR platform powered by blockchain.

A network of decentralized marketplaces and communities built on the d0xINFRA framework.

RealmNFT is a build your team to save the world founded in 2021.

PLLAY Labs is a company founded in 2018 by Christine Krzyzanowski.

Darewise Entertainment is a platform providing interactive, socially-connected online gaming experiences founded in 2015.

B2B company providing on-demand software developers, designers, and product managers.

Hoolai Games is a Beijing-based company founded in 2011.

Atari is a third party video game developer, publisher, and distributor.

Solice is a cross platform VR metaverse on the Solana blockchain.

Axie Infinity is an NFT gaming platform and marketplace.

Twitch is a livestreaming video platform and community for gamers.

Ziva Dynamics is a company founded by James Jacobs.

Riot Games is a video game developer founded in 2006 by Marc Merrill.

Open Drives is a Santa Monica, California-based company founded in 2011 by Kyle Jackson.

51wan is a Beijing-based company.

mo9 is a Shanghai-based company.

Microsoft is an American multinational technology company that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services.

1047 Games is a Zephyr Cove, Nevada-based company.

N3TWORK is a company founded in 2013 by Neil Young, Bob Stevenson, Erik Lammerding, Steve Detwiler and Alan Yu.

Mojiworks is a Guildford-based company founded in 2016 by Alan Harding.

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.

Wildlife Studios is a company making mobile video games founded in 2011.

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

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

Saber Interactive is a developers of interactive games in Russia and Eastern Europe.

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

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

Big Fish Games is a Seattle-based company founded in 2002 by Paul Thelen.

Wooga is a german company founded in 2009 by Jens Begemann.

NaturalMotion Games is a United Kingdom-based company founded in 2001.

Rec Room is a Seattle-based company founded in 2016 by Nick Fajt, Dan Kroymann, Bilal Orhan, Cameron Brown, John Bevis and Josh Wehrly.

Machinima is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2004 by Strange Company, Third Wave Digital and Philip DeBevoise.

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.

Pocket Gems is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2009.

Plain Vanilla is an Iceland-based company founded in 2011.

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.

Thatgamecompany is a video game development studio founded in 2006 by Jenova Chen.

Playco is a developer of instant-play games across a variety of platforms.