Niccolo De Masi is hunting for the next big mobile app.
Niccolo De Masi is hunting for the next big mobile app.
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Former Glu CEO Niccolo De Masi is at it again, ready to take another company public

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Niccolo De Masi, the man behind the hit mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, has launched his second “blank check” initial public offering (IPO) company in six months. After acquiring online gambling company Rush Street Interactive and taking it public for $1.8 billion, De Masi now wants to target a game company or tech company.

De Masi announced that his dMY Technology Group II has raised $240 million for a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC) on the New York Stock Exchange. In that transaction, investors have once again put him in charge of a lot of money, and De Masi gets to decide what to acquire with all of that cash. What could happen? Well, a game company could go public in very short order, if all goes well.

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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.