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AccelByte raises $10M to provide backend services for cross-platform games

AccelByte has raised $10 million in funding to provide backend services for live service games that run across multiple platforms.

The Seattle-based company is one of a number businesses that have sprung up to provide white-label (other companies put their name on the service) services for game companies to more easily operate games-as-a-service (GaaS).

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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.