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Roblox raises $150 million as its user-created game world surpasses 70 million players

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Roblox has raised $150 million in a new round of funding aimed at expanding the international growth of its social platform for user-generated games. The valuation of the company was at least $2.5 billion, said a source close to the company.

The San Mateo, California-based company also said it has more than 70 million monthly active users for its Lego-like virtual world where kids and teens can play games that they create. The funding comes from Greylock Partners and Tiger Global Management, as well as existing investors Altos Ventures, Index Ventures, and Meritech Capital Partners. To date, the company has raised $185 million. I guess we have a good idea who the next Minecraft — or the Minecraft Killer — is now.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.