PlayMakers has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to boost user-generated content.
PlayMakers has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to boost user-generated content.
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PlayMakers raises $1.5M for user-generated content for games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PlayMakers has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to boost user-generated content across a wide spectrum of games.

Founded just a year ago by Ilan Nabeth, Maxime Niankouri, and Costantino Carrega, the PlayMakers team, consisting of former Homa employees, has already marked impressive achievements with a collective 600 million game downloads during their previous roles.

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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.