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Giant Realm raises another $2 million for male entertainment portal

Giant Realm said it has raised $2 million from SoftBank Capital to expand its entertainment portal for male entertainment junkies and video gamers.

The investment brings the New York company’s total first round funding to $5.5 million. Last month, the company announced that Comcast Interactive Capital and Edison Venture Fund had invested $3.5 million. The William Morris Agency is also a backer. (our coverage).

In other news, the company said it hired Alan Pearlberg, co-founder of online storage firm Elephant Drive, as vice president of business development. Giant Realm has more than 4.2 million unique monthly visitors, according to the March 2008 comScore data. The company said it will expand its staff and add offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Jordan Levy of SoftBank Capital has joined Giant Realm’s board. SoftBank’s Michael Perlis will be a board observer. The company has a raft of competitors, including UGO, GameSpot, Heavy.com to Fox’s IGN.com.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.