Hiro Capital diced the game industry numbers from Dealroom.
Hiro Capital diced the game industry numbers from Dealroom.
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Global game investment rose 38% to $4.3B in 2024 | Hiro Capital

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Global games investment rose 38% from $3.1 billion to $4.3 billion in 2024, according to a report by game venture capital firm Hiro Capital.

And if you look at games, mixed reality, and sports tech, the numbers showed over $10 billion was invested in those categories in 2024, based on data from Dealroom that was analyzed by Hiro Capital.

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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.