69 Best Online Gaming Startups to Watch in 2024

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)

Building middleware for the metaverse to empower players like never before

Total Raised: $4.00M

Last Funding: $4.00M (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)

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

Strips Finance is the FIRST revolutionary interest rate derivatives exchange on Arbitrum

Metafy is a platform that enables online players in the world to monetize their talent through 1:1 coaching and courses.

Storehouse is a company founded in 2013.

Roblox provides an online entertainment platform that allows users to build and play games and share them with others.

OMGPop is a company developing social games for Facebook, iPhone and the open web. It participated in the S06 cohort of Y Combinator. Zynga acquired OMGPop in 2012.

Axie Infinity is an NFT gaming platform and marketplace.

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

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

Nifty League is a company founded in 2021 by Andrew Mahoney-Fernandes, Ali Timnak and Mike Scott.

Twitch is a livestreaming video platform and community for gamers.

Mobile Premier League is a company founded in 2018 by Sai Srinivas Kiran G.

Vulcun is a San Francisco-based company.

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

E4C: Final Salvation is a the first Esports metaverse game founded by Johnson Yeh.

5211game 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.

GoG is a Blockchain mobile RPG.

C2X is a blockchain gaming platform striving to create the ultimate NFT gaming experience.

Play Magnus is the official creator of the World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen's, branded products.

RockYou is an Oakland, California-based company founded in 2005 by Jia Shen.

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

The Sandbox is a virtual world (or Metaverse) where players are given the opportunity to build, own and even monetize out of their gaming experience, built on top of the Ethereum Blockchain. All of this is conducted through the utilization of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

100 Thieves is an esports and gaming lifestyle company founded in 2017 by Dan Gilbert, Scooter Braun, Nadeshot, Matthew Haag and Drake.

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.

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

Project SEED aims to revolutionize the mobile gaming industry to a whole new level by implementing blockchain technology and introducing Play-To-Earn.

Mauj Mobile is a company founded in 2006.

Unikrn is a Seattle-based eSports betting site. The company was acquired by Entain in 2021.

Sensorium Corporation is the technology company behind Sensorium Galaxy, a digital metaverse.