DCM general partner David Chao (left), WestSummit Capital managing director Raymond Yang (center), and Bertelsmann China Corporate Center CEO Annabelle Yu Long talk about mobile games at the China 2.0 startup conference today.
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Chinese VC: Mobile game investments still in early stage of a boom

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PALO ALTO, Calif.  — For the past couple of years, investments in mobile game companies have been hot. But a slowdown in exits and Zynga’s weakness in the stock market hurt the pace of acquisitions in the market.

But Raymond Yang, the managing director at China-focused WestSummit Capital, said today that he believes that mobile gaming startups and investments are still in an early stage, particularly in China.

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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.