Meet the Game Changers 2024 winners

venturebeat.com:

We’re pleased to disclose the inaugural list of Game Changers from the partnership of Lightspeed and GamesBeat. Together with 15 industry judges, we selected 25 companies as the most innovative gaming startups for 2024.

Lightspeed’s Moritz Baier-Lentz and GamesBeat’s Dean Takahashi made the announcement on stage at the close of the GamesBeat Next conference today in San Francisco.

For more than 50 years, video games have profoundly shaped consumer behavior and acted as a catalyst for significant technological innovation. As an ever-increasing time of our lives is spent in immersive virtual worlds, gaming is expected to continue its pivotal role in how we play, work, and connect.

But often, true innovation happens at the edges. The most daring companies are not the industry giants—they’re the startups that are advancing the next stages of technology, and by extension, bringing to life previously impossible user experiences.

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That’s why Lightspeed has partnered with GamesBeat to honor this new breed of gaming companies. In August, we asked the gaming and venture communities to nominate the best startups across five key categories:

All of the entrants had to have been in business no more than five years and have no more than 50 full-time employees. In addition to vision and execution, we also sought to highlight companies that honored principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

We received an overwhelming amount of quality entries. Between Lightspeed investors and GamesBeat editors, over two days, we