Best Gaming Companies in New Jersey, United States
The 52 best Gaming companies in New Jersey, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: ZBD.
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 New Jersey
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ZBD Online platform offering Bitcoin rewards for playing games | $46M | 48 mo ago | Series B | Simon Cowell Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | GhostNode.jsVarnish+15 | — |
| 2 | Majesco Games Majesco: A provider of downloadable games across multiple platforms | $45M | 115 mo ago | Public | Jesse Sutton CEO & Co- Founder | 1998 | WordPressMySQLPHP+15 | — |
| 3 | Dignitas Esports player organization | $34M | 82 mo ago | Acquired | Michael Prindiville Chief Executive Officer | 2003 | SanityNode.jsReact+14 | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Gaud-Hammer Gaming Group Esports services provider | $6M | 36 mo ago | Series A | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | Tonk Tonk Games Independent mobile game development company | $2M | 90 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | — | — |
| 6 | Sweeps Digital community-based esports gaming platform | $100K | 49 mo ago | Seed | Owen Monagan Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — |
| 7 | Coastal Amusements Manufacturer of coin-operated redemption arcade gaming machines | — | 31 mo ago | Late Stage | — | 1988 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — |
| 8 | jooploop Mobile game development and loyalty platform | — | 143 mo ago | Deadpooled | John Perls Founder & CEO | 2009 | — | — |
Top 9 Gaming companies in New Jersey
#1
Series A · Atlantic City, New Jersey · founded 2019 · 7 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Esports services provider. The company provides solutions like product development, organizing leagues and tournaments, events, and more
- Jul 2023Series A$5.5M
#2
Series B · Hoboken, New Jersey · founded 2019$46.5Mraised▾
Online platform offering Bitcoin rewards for playing games
#3
Public · Edison, New Jersey · founded 1998 · 466 employees$45.1Mraised▾
Majesco: A provider of downloadable games across multiple platforms. They develop and publish games for PC, Steam, GOG.com, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and Mobile. Their portfolio includes titles across various genres, including action, adventure, and strategy. They focus on expanding the availability of their games through digital distribution platforms like Steam, offering both new releases and classic titles. They aim to provide entertainment experiences for gamers across different devices and preferences. They are a B2C company in the entertainment industry.
- Dec 2016Post IPO$2.3M
- Dec 2014Post IPO$6M
- Sep 2007Post IPO$6M
- Sep 2005Post IPO$5M
#4
Acquired · Newark, New Jersey · founded 2003 · 63 employees$33.5Mraised▾
Dignitas is an esports player organization that has teams for various esports games including CS: GO, Rocket League, Smite, Clash Royale, and more. It has won multiple tournaments including "Enemy Territory: Quake Wars" tournament at QuakeCon 2007.
#5
Seed · Manasquan, New Jersey · founded 2022$100Kraised▾
Digital community-based esports gaming platform. The company has developed an online gaming platform that enables users to play games in real-time. It has features for saving prizes, earning money, connecting with peer gamers, and more.
- Jun 2022Seed$100K
#6
Seed · Fort Lee, New Jersey · founded 2016 · 10 employees$2Mraised▾
Tonk Tonk Games is an independent mobile game development company that specializes in developing role-playing games. It is currently developing "uFighter", which is a competitive real-time multiplayer fighting game where the player is a digitized avatar of the gamer.
- Jan 2019Seed$2M
#7
Late Stage · Lakewood Township, New Jersey · founded 1988 · 34 employees—raised▾
Manufacturer of coin-operated redemption arcade gaming machines. It specializes in developing, manufacturing, and importing ticket redemption games, cranes, and coin pushers for family amusement centers and similar venues.
- Dec 2023PE—
#8
Deadpooled · Jersey City, New Jersey · founded 2009—raised▾
Mobile game development and loyalty platform
#9
Deadpooled · Edison, New Jersey · founded 2009—raised▾
Discover top Fortnite Creative maps, island codes, and experiences. This platform offers a wide array of user-generated content within Fortnite, focusing on Creative mode. It provides a curated selection of maps across various categories, including building, fighting, horror, tycoon, deathrun, zonewars, team deathmatch, box fights, 1v1, prop hunt, PVE, gun game, role play, party games, creative edit course, roguelike adventure, escape room, first person, FFA, fun mini game, music, and parkour. Users can explore featured, popular, most liked, and highest-rated maps, as well as trending categories. The platform serves as a discovery tool for players seeking new and engaging Fortnite experiences created by the community.
- Sep 2010Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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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
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