Astrocade raised $12 million in funding.
Astrocade raised $12 million in funding.
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Astrocade raises $12M for AI-based social gaming platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Astrocade AI announced a $12 million seed funding round for its AI-based social gaming platform for casual games.

The money came from AME Cloud Ventures, Nvidia Ventures, Venture Reality Fund, and gaming and tech veterans Eric Schmidt, Niccolo De Masi, John Riccitiello, David Baszucki, Jerry Yang, Mike Abbott and more. Astrocade was one of the top 25 Game Changers announced at GamesBeat Next 2023 last October.

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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.