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Peter Relan's Studio 9+ reaches beyond games with its first incubator class

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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YouWeb founder Peter Relan created successful startups in social games. Now his new accelerator/incubator Studio 9+ is reaching beyond games with its first class of 10 founding companies.

The San Francisco incubator will foster the startups for nine months and offer them financing so that they can build their companies into more substantial startups than is typical with incubated companies. While Studio 9+ has at least one game investment, Relan is branching out with the first class into new sectors that include wearable technology, big data, mobile-social networks, platforms-as-a-service (PaaS), peer-to-peer sharing, and children’s education.

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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.