Chris Carvalho, former Kabam COO
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Former Kabam COO Chris Carvalho carves a niche as a game startup adviser

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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You can think of Chris Carvalho as a game company accelerator. He started at mobile game company Kabam when it had just 25 people. When he left two years ago, the company had more than 700 people. It went from $2 million in revenue to more than $360 million.

Now he’s carved out a niche as an adviser for game startups. He is on the advisory board of Jump Ramp Games, Roblox, MaxPlay, PlayFab, and Mobcrush. He tells them how to read the tea leaves of the industry and find a path to growth. He even advised his 15-year-old son on how to launch his first mobile game.

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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.