Best Gaming Companies in Colorado, United States
The 37 best Gaming companies in Colorado, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Last Gameboard.
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 Colorado
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Last Gameboard Developer of a tabletop gameboard and gaming platform | $5M | 51 mo ago | Deadpooled | Shail Mehta Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
| 2 | Slime Sandwich MMO game developer for the web platform | $3M | 197 mo ago | Deadpooled | Douglas A. Glover Founder | 2009 | — | — |
| 3 | Farcade Provider of decentralized platform for developers to build web3 games | $2M | 26 mo ago | Seed | Charlie Blackstock Co-Founder & CTO | 2024 | — | — |
| 4 | SPYR Developer & publisher of social games for mobile gaming platform | $1M | 105 mo ago | Deadpooled | James R Thompson CEO | 1988 | — | — |
| 5 | Pavonis Interactive Independent game development company based out of Colorado | $378K | 70 mo ago | Seed | John Lumpkin CEO | 2015 | Apache HTTP ServerCloudflareGoogle Font API+7 | — |
| 6 | Backflip Studios Mobile Games developer focusing on Casual games | $145K | 205 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2009 | — | — |
| 7 | WorldQL Provider of backend solutions for game developers | $125K | 54 mo ago | Seed | Jackson Roberts Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 8 | Uncanny Esports games training firm | $100K | 86 mo ago | Seed | David Sturgeon Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | — |
Top 8 Gaming companies in Colorado
#1
Seed · Denver, Colorado · founded 2024$1.8Mraised▾
Provider of decentralized platform for developers to build web3 games. It offers Farcade platform and suite of tools for developers to build crypto-native games that integrate with onchain social media.
- Jun 2024Seed$1.8M
#2
Deadpooled · Denver, Colorado · founded 2018 · 14 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Developer of a tabletop gameboard and gaming platform. The company has developed a technology device & platform for the gamers community. Its product 'Gameboard-1' is equipped with touch screen technology where gamers can play various types of games such as RPG, casual games, board games, and arcade games, etc. The app to control the broad will be available for Android and iOS users.
- May 2022Seed$225K
- May 2021Seed$4.4M
- 2020Seed—
#3
Deadpooled · Denver, Colorado · founded 2009$2.8Mraised▾
Slime Sandwich is an MMO game developer for the web platform. The company has developed "Slime Sandwich", which is in stealth mode.
- Mar 2010Seed$1.8M
- Oct 2009Seed$1M
#4
Seed · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2021 · 2 employees$125Kraised▾
Provider of backend solutions for game developers. The company offers software for gaming studios to enhance the multiplayer gaming experience by providing backend services. Product key features include game revenue management, APIs for peer-to-peer trading, gaming analytics, tools for rewarding players, and much more.
- Mar 2022Seed$500K
#5
Seed · Louisville, Colorado · founded 2015 · 4 employees$377.8Kraised▾
Pavonis Interactive (previously Long War Studios), founded in 2015, is an independent game development company based out of Colorado. It specializes in developing strategy games for PC, Mac, and Linux platforms. It has developed a game known as "Terra Invicta" which is a strategy game.
- Oct 2020Seed$216K
- Nov 2017Seed$161.8K
#6
Deadpooled · Denver, Colorado · founded 1988 · 3 employees$1Mraised▾
Developer & publisher of social games for the mobile gaming platform. The company engaged in mobile application and game publishing and development. Also, it develops and resells Apple ecosystem-compatible products with an emphasis on the growing multibillion-dollar IoT smart home and connected car markets.
- Nov 2017Conventional Debt$500K
- Sep 2017Conventional Debt$500K
#7
Seed · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2018$100Kraised▾
Esports games training firm
- Jul 2019Seed—
- Jul 2018Seed$100K
#8
Acquired · Boulder, Colorado · founded 2009 · 22 employees$145Kraised▾
Backflip Studios is a Mobile Games developer focusing on Casual games. They gained popularity with their Mobile title Paper Toss - a casual mobile game initially launched on iOS and later ported to Android. The game has been reportedly downloaded 24 million times. Other popular titles from them include DragonVale and NinJump - both casual mobile games.
- Aug 2009Seed$145K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Gaming coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
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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