The founders of XY Gaming.
The founders of XY Gaming. From left to right: Richard Edmonds, James Beamish-White, Scott Bednarski, and Aaron Fletcher.
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XY Gaming raises $2.5 million for its global esports tournament platform

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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XY Gaming has raised $2.5 million for its global esports tournament platform. With XY Gaming, players compete for cash prizes.

San Francisco-based XY Gaming has already hosted more than 16,000 tournaments and 12.5 million games to date. KB Partners and Varga Capital co-led the seed funding round.

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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.