GameAnalytics raises $5.5M and hires new CEO

GameAnalytics has raised $5.5 million in a new round of funding and appointed a new CEO.

Luke Aviet, the former managing director of AOL, will replace cofounder Morten Wulff as chief executive of GameAnalytics, a free analytics platform for game developers. The conmpany focuses on giving developers a good look at what their players are doing from a variety of perspectives — data that’s key in the multibillion dollar industry that rakes in more money annually than Hollywood does.

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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.