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Peter Relan launches mobile and infrastructure startup incubator 9+

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Peter Relan, the serial entrepreneur who created a number of social gaming firms, is creating a new startup incubator called 9+. The name is a reference to the fact that the company will train startups for nine months with help from an all-star company-building team.

Relan, who will be chief mentor at 9+, told VentureBeat that he plans to train 24 teams a year in two separate classes. But he won’t be focused on games as he was in his past incubator, YouWeb, which funded companies such as OpenFeint, CrowdStar, and Agawi. Now he will focus on startups in mobile services, tablets, big data, infrastructure platforms, and wearable computing.

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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.