G2 Esports raises $17.3 million for global expansion

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 26, 2019
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

G2 Esports announced that this global esports club has raised $17.3 million from prominent New York investors and a variety of global tech moguls. The backers include New York investors Seal Rock Partners, Al Tylis, and Dan Gilbert. They teamed up with other investors Parkwood Corp. and Everblue Management to lead the round.

Alongside this group, G2 also raised money from tech and sports entrepreneurs including Yext cofounder Brian Distelburger; Doodle founder, Myke Naef; and Topgolf Media president, YuChiang Cheng.

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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.