Pitch your startup at the “Who’s Got Game?” contest at GamesBeat 2011

Our GamesBeat 2011 conference is coming up on July 12-13 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. This year’s conference is focused on the meteoric rise of mobile games and looks at best cases for money-making and growing user bases in mobile games. We’re calling it Mobile Games Level Up. And it will feature our third annual edition of the “Who’s Got Game?” contest that highlights the best game startup.

We’re looking to ferret out the best startups in the game industry. We’ll choose five to seven finalists who will present live, on stage at our GamesBeat conference in front of a big crowd. Those finalists will be able to pitch their company to our audience of media, entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors and industry executives.

An all-star panel of judges will be selecting the most promising startup, based on the following criteria:

» freshness
» innovation
» potential for business success.

The requirements are that the entrant be a startup company in the game space. Publicly traded or large, well-known private companies are not eligible.

The winner will be announced at GamesBeat and covered in a blog post and will receive introductions to game investors in our network.

Deadline for submission is June 21 at 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time. Here’s the link for the game contest. We’ll also have a contest for MobileBeat 2011 (use this MobileBeat contest link). To register for GamesBeat 2011, follow this link. For sponsorships, send a message to sponsors@venturebeat.com.

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.