Manticore cofounders Jordan Maynard (left) and Frederic Descamps.
Manticore cofounders Jordan Maynard (left) and Frederic Descamps.
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Manticore Games raises $30 million to enable a new generation of game creators

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Manticore Games has raised $30 million to launch a platform so a new generation of game creators can build, share, and play online games. The San Mateo, California-based company will use the money for accelerating development of Core, a digital playground and community designed to unleash imagination and explore new play experiences.

The second round financing includes investments from Benchmark Capital, Correlation Ventures, Bitkraft Esports Ventures, M Ventures, Arrive (a subsidiary of Roc Nation), Sapphire Sport, Tuesday Capital, and SV Angel.

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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.