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A16z Games commits $75M to Speedrun game startup accelerator

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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A16z Games has started a new Speedrun accelerator and it plans to invest up to $75 million in the next class of pre-seed startups at the intersection of games and technology.

The first Speedrun came together with speed, as the venture capital firm recruited its first class of 32 startups starting at the Game Developers Conference in March.

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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.