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Digi-Capital: Investors poured $9.6 billion into game deals in past 18 months, but M&A and IPOs slowed

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Investors poured $9.6 billion into game companies in past 18 months, but acquisitions and initial public offerings (IPOs) dropped to levels not seen since 2010, according to tech advisory firm Digi-Capital and its new Games Investment Report Q3 2019.

The report shows that after a record $5.8 billion games investment in 2018, venture capital and strategic games investors poured another $3.8 billion into games companies in the first half of 2019.

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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.