Blackjack Casino is a rising hit for Bee Cave Games.
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Zynga cofounder joins social casino game maker as investor and adviser

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Zynga cofounder Eric Schiermeyer has joined Bee Cave Games as an investor and board adviser.

The Austin, Texas-based Bee Cave Games is the developer of Blackjack Casino, a Facebook card game that’s rising in the charts. Social casino game startups have been hot for the last couple of years as the category has soared in popularity and real-money gambling barriers come down in various territories.

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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.