Taunt's team is making an esports fan competition platform.
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Taunt raises $1.75 million for esports fan competition platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Taunt announced today that it has raised $1.75 million in a seed financing round to build an esports fan competition platform. It’s a kind of fantasy sport for esports, where fans compete with each other to predict what will happen in real-time during an esports match.

Esports is a fast-growing industry with an enormous global footprint. According to research firm Newzoo, the estimated 2017 global audience will reach 385 million
people. The 2016 League of Legends World Championship Finals alone had 43 million unique viewers, as reported by Riot Games.

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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.