Best Gaming Companies in Atlanta, United States
The 35 best Gaming companies in Atlanta, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: CONTROL.
Our analysis of 71 Gaming companies
$20.0b in tracked funding; 97% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Gaming companies in Atlanta
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CONTROL Provider of an app-based fantasy sports platform for multiple sports | $40M | 56 mo ago | Series A | Sohrob Farudi Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder | 2015 | — | 135 patents Agricultural pesticide application devices and solid/ liquid pest control formulations. | — |
| 2 | Haste Network optimization solution provider for eSports | $10M | 79 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | 2014 | — | 2 patents Secure cryptographic protocols for updating distributed data structures (e.g., mutable ledgers). | — |
| 3 | Monetizr Online in game advertising platform | $5M | 41 mo ago | Series A | Martins Bratuskins Founder & COO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Shotcall Esports real money gaming platform | $2M | 70 mo ago | Deadpooled | Gordon Li Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Global Worldwide Developer of mobile games and election management systems 67Customers top 20%Market top 34%Patents top 35%Innovation top 41% All 8 signals ▾Customerstop 20% Markettop 34% Patentstop 35% Innovationtop 41% Fundingtop 42% Moattop 45% Productbottom 48% Globalbottom 40% Customers: App rating 4.4★ (34,942 reviews) · Review volume +7% in 6 mo Market: 95 employees (top 17% of Gaming) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $500K | 6 mo ago | Series A | — | 1945 | — | 83 patents Automation platforms for visa processing, aerospace investment management software, pivot ride systems, knot‑rope pet toys. | — |
| 6 | United in Gaming Online gaming community | $323K | 64 mo ago | Seed | Andrew Smoltz Co-Founder | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Blue Mammoth Web games developer | $300K | 193 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2009 | Google WorkspaceCloudflare | — | — |
| 8 | Glitch Community platform for gaming | $20K | 27 mo ago | Seed | Devin Dixon CEO/Founder | 2022 | ZohoVideoJSReact+17 | 5 patents Real-time video capture, encoding, and live streaming distribution technology. | — |
Top 9 Gaming companies in Atlanta
#1
Series A · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 1945 · 95 employees$500Kraised▾
Developer of mobile games and election management systems
- Mar 2026Series A$500K
#2
Series A · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2015$40Mraised▾
Provider of an app-based fantasy sports platform for multiple sports. It provides users with a platform that allows fans to participate in sports and entertainment events by voting and making decisions through their app. Users can also vote for their favorite drivers and make picks and polls related to racing events.
- Jan 2022Series A$40M
- Sep 2020Seed—
#3
Series A · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2016$4.7Mraised▾
Online in game advertising platform. It provides different ad formats that helps businesses to engage with players and convert into customers. It provides solutions for storytelling, and data collection. The players complete the branded missions to collect rewards. It allows publishers to provide rewards, and monetize the game in real time.
- Apr 2023Series A$4.1M
- Apr 2019Seed$520K
- Jul 2017Seed$120K
- Jun 2017Seed—
#4
Acqui-Hired · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2014 · 26 employees$10Mraised▾
Haste is a network optimization solution provider for eSports. The company has developed its product Haste - to get an optimum solution for connecting gamers devices and game servers of multiple eSports games including Fortnite, PUBG, and League of Legends. It offers freemium subscription packages based on the duration of product use.
- Feb 2020Series A$4M
- Feb 2019Seed$875.2K
- Jun 2017Seed$2.5M
- Jan 2017Seed—
#5
Deadpooled · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2019 · 12 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Esports real money gaming platform
- Oct 2020Seed$2.2M
#6
Seed · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2020 · 8 employees$323.3Kraised▾
Online gaming community. The platform allows users to connect with professional as well as amateur gamers. The company has also developed a gaming platform named gather.gg where users can create and play tournaments.
- May 2021Seed$268.3K
- Dec 2020Conventional Debt$55K
#7
Seed · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2022$20Kraised▾
Community platform for gaming. It is a platform for gaming communities to connect, collaborate, and profit. It offers tools to transform gaming hobbies into opportunities through engagement with publishers and esports companies. It creates gaming communities that users can host tournaments, stream content and monetize.
- 2024Seed$20K
#8
Acquired · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2009 · 43 employees$300Kraised▾
Blue Mammoth is a game development studio based in Atlanta. Founded in 2009, the studio focuses on the development of Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) games and is best known for its game 'Drangon Blitz' - a side scrolling MMO. The studio has also released a platformer fighting game 'Barawlhalla' for steam platform. The studio is founde by ex - CCP Games employees.
- Aug 2010Angel$300K
#9
Seed · Atlanta, Georgia · founded 2003—raised▾
Online gaming platform for playing mobile games
- Jun 2014Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Gaming coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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How research on Gaming Technology is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Gaming Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 670 United States-affiliated papers.
- Carnegie Mellon University23
- Nvidia20
- University of Utah16
- University of California, Davis16
- Cornell University15
- Image-based modeling and rendering7→15
- Alternate frame rendering2→10
- Gaussian4→9
- Augmented reality2→7
- 3D rendering9→13
- Context (archaeology)3→4
- Rendering (computer graphics)25
- Computer graphics (images)19
- Game engine10
- Real-time rendering9
- Human–computer interaction8
Where gaming tech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing gaming tech patents in the United States
United States gaming tech patent filing is accelerating — 406 filings from 157 assignees (2016–2025), led by Sony Interactive Entertainment, SONY Interactive Entertainment A, Microsoft; annual filings 10→50.
- Sony Interactive Entertainment98
- SONY Interactive Entertainment A50
- Microsoft41
- Google36
- Intel35
- Tencent America21
- Nvidia18
- Electronic ARTS14
Common questions
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