Flashbreak raises $2 million for live mobile game competitions with real-money rewards

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 6, 2019
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Flashbreak has raised $2 million in funding for live mobile game competitions that reward gamers with real-money rewards. It’s sort of like HQ Trivia, in that everybody gathers at a particular time to compete in a show.

Paris-based Flashbreak raised the money from French venture capital firm Alven and Kima Venture. It’s a kind of mash-up of esports meets mobile gaming. The app is a hybrid of both in-house games combined with a publishing platform for outside vendors to expose their own offerings to Flashbreak gamers.

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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.