Signia Venture Partners’ Rick Thompson delivers the über-investor’s take on mobile gaming investments (interview)

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Rick Thompson has put a lot of money into games and other startups over the years, and he has lots of money to show for it. Now, as gaming’s über-investor, he’s pouring even more into mobile game investments. We caught up with him earlier this month for an interview about what he sees in mobile.

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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.