BoomTV and Intel have teamed up to match young esports athletes with college esports recruiters.
BoomTV and Intel have teamed up to match young esports athletes with college esports recruiters.
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Why Intel Capital invested in BoomTV amid the esports boom

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Intel Capital invested in amateur esports firm BoomTV as part of a broad move to raise the profile of gamers and esports in mainstream culture.

While esports players winning multimillion-dollar purses in big tournaments get a lot of attention, BoomTV is trying to fill out the rest of the talent pipeline, bringing along the students and the amateur players who are only beginning to be discovered by professional esports team recruiters. And it is doing so by enabling the smaller events to broadcast their matches and post highlights that can get noticed more widely. In the long term, BoomTV wants game spectating to become a far bigger market than gaming itself.

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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.