Griffin employees: (left to right) Jennifer Manion, Marissa Toomey, Emily Wang and Boyoung Kim.
Griffin employees: (left to right) Jennifer Manion, Marissa Toomey, Emily Wang and Boyoung Kim.
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Griffin Gaming Partners has put 30% of its investments into women-run game startups

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Griffin Gaming Partners said that almost 30% of its deployed capital has been invested into game startups with women founders or cofounders.

That’s pretty impactful, considering Griffin Gaming Partners has raised the largest venture capital fund to invest in games, as its total has grown to $837.6 million. And the Santa Monica, California firm has $1.2 billion under management.

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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.