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Skillz raises $25 million for mobile esports platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Skillz has raised $25 million in funding for its mobile esports platform from investors including Liberty Global and Telstra.

Back in May 2017, the San Francisco company announced that its revenue run-rate had doubled in the previous eight months to more than $100 million, meaning from May 2017 to May 2018, the company was on track to hit $100 million in revenues.

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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.