Shawn Foust is CEO of Plexchat.
Shawn Foust is CEO of Plexchat.
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Plexchat raises $7 million to provide mobile chat platform for gamers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Plexchat has raised $7 million in venture capital to build chat platform for mobile gamers.

It may not sound that exciting or new, but the features in the chat platform are thoughtful, conceived from a gamer’s perspective, and that enabled the company to impress potential investors. The money comes from Raine Ventures as well as First Round Capital, Dream Incubator, London Venture Partners, Lumia Capital, Macro Ventures, Singularity Ventures, and Hany Nada (founding partner of GGVC). That’s a good group of game-savvy investors, but they think highly of Plexchat’s leader.

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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.