The state of seed-stage investing for games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 4, 2019
Updated June 18, 2025
2 min

Venture capital and seed investors once stayed away from game investments because they were “hit-driven businesses.” But David Gardner, general partner of London Venture Partners, used to complain to those VCs that all of venture capital is that way.

In any case, VCs didn’t feel qualified to judge games or game companies. But now, “your tribe has come home,” said Eric Goldberg, managing director of Crossover Technologies, in a panel on seed investing at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2019 event.

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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.