GGWP is fighting toxicity.
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Dennis Fong’s GGWP raises $12M for AI to combat game toxicity

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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GGWP has raised $12 million in seed funding to use AI and content moderation to reduce toxicity in online games.

Dennis “Thresh” Fong is still a pretty darn good gamer decades after he was one of the earliest esports celebrities. But when he played with some of his entrepreneur friends, they weren’t quite as good and often got hassled by toxic players. So Fong and his friends decided to do something about it.

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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.