Top California Gaming Startups (262)
Manticore Games is the developer and operator of Core. Core is an endless universe of games to play and worlds to explore designed by a global community of creators. It’s a radically accessible game construction kit and social game-playing platform, all-in-one. Whether you’re interested in playing unexpected takes on shooters, RPGs, and party games, exploring massive and spectacular worlds with...
As the gaming arm of Bad Robot Productions (Lost, Cloverfield, Westworld, Star Wars), Bad Robot Games is passionate about telling stories and building worlds that can only be experienced through games. Our goal is to create gaming destinations across all platforms that are as fun to watch as they are to play. Through our two development teams (an in-house studio,...
Azra Games believes that the childhood experience of bashing, smashing, and storytelling with your favorite toys in unhinged and imaginative play is the purest form of gaming. We are on a mission to recapture that freedom for the modern era with kickass collectibles and combat RPGs powered by Web3 technology. LFG! We are both gamers and crypto natives. Founded by virtuoso...
Winter Graphics North is a mobile applications developer company that has been developing applications compatible with iPhones and iPads.
Creating a portal into the musicverse through digital collectibles, gaming and interactive content.
We're a no bullshit, fast-moving management and advisory firm who are here to upgrade and evolve the gaming industry by being authentically human, relentlessly creative, and award-winning on behalf of clients who put their trust in us, no matter the arena.
PlayQ is a rapidly growing global entertainment and technology company delivering high-quality mobile titles and innovative game development solutions to a worldwide audience. Our games have been downloaded more than 60 million times across the globe, with millions of users playing every day! Our dedicated teams, based in downtown Santa Monica, CA, work together to craft the clever, visually stunning, and...
The original creators behind ‘Trial Xtreme’ the blockbuster series with over 250,000,000 downloads, leading App stores charts and one of the world's leading mobile games bike racing category. Join one of the most experienced teams in the Web3 gaming space today! in making this natural gaming evolution come to life. We are beyond excited to be one of the first group...
Graffiti Games is an indie game publisher comprised of a talented team of industry veterans with extensive experience launching games across various platforms. Based in Vancouver, with offices in Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles, we partner with developers to provide funding and publishing services in order to bring their games to market and share them with a global audience.
Established in 2011, Turn Me Up Games is an award-winning independent developer nestled in downtown Burbank, CA. We value innovation, accessibility, and collaboration as the driving forces behind our work. With a diverse portfolio that includes hit titles such as It Takes Two, Batman Arkham Trilogy, Tony Hawk, and Borderlands Legendary, among others, we are dedicated to bringing immersive and...
Lucid Sight was founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, California, and started its journey with the goal of developing technologies to support the evolving gaming landscape. Lucid Sight has innovated on and explored new technologies across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, VR, Console, and PC), working with major IPs and brands. To date, Lucid Sight has built over two dozen games,...
Booyah, headquartered in San Francisco, is the market leader in real-world & location –based gaming. The company is founded on the premise that “where you play matters” and creates compelling, innovative mass-market entertainment products & services that have been enjoyed by tens of millions of worldwide. By integrating real-world signals into its portfolio of products, Booyah is more than a...
RED GAMES Co. is a mobile and VR gaming studio focused on creating games and experiences for family-friendly audiences. Today, RED GAMES Co. partners with the world’s leading toy and entertainment companies to bring new gaming products to market, in addition to developing its own original IP. RED GAMES Co. partners include Apple, Hasbro, LEGO, Crayola and Discovery (OWN).
5X5 Gaming is an early stage cross platform gaming company that focuses on building AAA quality play-to-earn NFT games. Our mission is to evolve gaming using the latest technologies to build trust, safety, and true digital asset ownership to unlock the best gaming experience.
Playblazer is the next generation game development framework for Connected Games. Playblazer's pre-built game components enable Game Developers to prototype, build, release and manage complex game services like - Multiplayer Systems, Game Economies, Live Events and Clan Systems - at scales of millions of Daily Players. Playblazer powers App Store Featured Games like - Real Steel - World Robot Boxing...
Building the future of online games through applied research in distributed systems and game design.
Genopets is a Free-to-Play, Move-to-Earn NFT game that makes it fun and profitable to live an active lifestyle. A Genopet is a player's digital spirit animal: raised from infancy; utterly unique; and imprinted with a player's psychological profile. It is a pet that players take care of by taking care of themselves. Genopets combines user's step data from their mobile...
Founded by a team of proven entrepreneuers, b Spot is an innovative solution for mobile game developers entering the legal gambling space in the United States. b Spot has developed a turnkey platform for legalized gambling that allows game developers to easily integrate real money payouts into their applications.The platform is built on open-source, state-of-the-art technology for horizontally scalable high-volume transaction...
Forte is building economic technology for games that is secure, easy to use, and fully compliant. Its end-to-end blockchain platform enables the emergence of community economics, a system where the interests of game developers and players are aligned, leading to healthier, sustainable game communities. The team is composed of longtime industry members (Unity, ngmoco, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Sony, and...
