Quantum Tech Partners has tracked record M&A and investments in games in 2021.
Quantum Tech Partners has tracked record M&A and investments in games in 2021.
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Quantum Tech Partners: Blockchain game companies raised $1.9B in past nine months

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Blockchain, crypto, and nonfungible token (NFT) game companies have raised $1.9 billion in the first nine months of 2021, according to mergers and acquisitions advisory firm Quantum Tech Partners.

Alina Soltys, cofounder of Quantum Tech Partners, said the stats were part of a record nine months of financial activity for games in the nine months ended September 30. But they don’t include last Friday’s announcement that blockchain game platform Forte had raised $725 million — a big number for Q4.

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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.