Best Gaming Tech Companies in Los Angeles, United States
The 62 best Gaming Tech companies in Los Angeles, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mobcrush.
Ranked: Best Gaming Tech companies in Los Angeles
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mobcrush Provider of live game broadcasting platform for the mobile gamers | $36M | 116 mo ago | 29 | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | FreshCut Provider of a game clip sharing tool | $15M | 49 mo ago | 47 | James Kuk Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | Versus Systems Platform offering reward based advertising solution 16Funding top 38%Talent top 41%Tech top 43%Global bottom 37% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 38% Talenttop 41% Techtop 43% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 30% Newsbottom 24% Growthbottom 22% Fin. healthbottom 22% Funding: Raised $14.5M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 12 yrs (0.5/yr) Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5 · 1 named leader on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 16/100 | $15M | 31 mo ago | 39 | Matthew Pierce Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+21 | — | — |
| 4 | Styngr Provides audio plugins for games 37Talent top 38%Funding top 45%Market bottom 46%Global bottom 32% All 4 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 45% Marketbottom 46% Globalbottom 32% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $11.2M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 5 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $11M | 22 mo ago | 30 | Alex Tarrand Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 5 | Ninja Metrics Analytics service provider to game developers/publishers | $9M | 119 mo ago | 10 | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | WormHole Provider of technology engine for immersive social AR experience | $9M | 87 mo ago | 18 | — | — | 59 patents Infrastructure and data integration for large‑scale augmented reality and avatar ecosystems | — |
| 7 | VRgineers High-end virtual reality headset aimed at enterprises | $6M | 31 mo ago | 35 | Marek Polcak Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | 12 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 8 | ProGuides Online learning platform for gaming | $5M | 77 mo ago | 1,700 | Sam Wang Co-Founder & CEO | PHPGoogle Sign-inApple Sign-in+27 | — | — |
| 9 | Upcomer Provider of gaming news, guides, and editorial content across multiple platforms | $2M | 84 mo ago | 2 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+41 | — | — |
| 10 | Fantasmo Decentralized 3D map | $2M | 97 mo ago | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | POGR Developer of a statistical platform for gaming and the metaverse | $2M | 40 mo ago | 9 | Juno Kim Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 12 | Morty Provider of an online platform to discover escape rooms | $2M | 32 mo ago | 9 | Karlis Lapsins Co-Founder | TurbopackSentryNode.js+25 | — | — |
| 13 | Pipeline Online platform offering training and mentorship programs for gaming streamers | $2M | 59 mo ago | 14 | Stephen Ellis Co-Founder & CEO | Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+9 | 3 patents Installation equipment and methods for trenchless pipe lining systems | — |
| 14 | Haste Arcade Provider of gaming monetization solutions | $2M | 48 mo ago | — | Joe Pinto Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 15 | Aghanim Web-based platform for mobile game monetization | $1M | 32 mo ago | — | Konstantin Golubitsky Co-Founder | SentryNode.jsReact+21 | — | 1 job opening |
| 16 | Movio Network Mobile platform to rent movies | $1M | 162 mo ago | — | Gregory Williams Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 17 | HeadCase Humanufacturing Gaming avatars development company | $900K | 237 mo ago | — | Cathi Cox CEO | — | — | — |
| 18 | Drope.me Cloud based influencer marketing tool for the gaming industry | $610K | 63 mo ago | — | Denis Kurilenko Co-Founder | SentryFirebasestyled-components+22 | — | — |
| 19 | Yebo 3D, VR tools and gaming engine for game developers | $553K | 142 mo ago | 9 | David Mandel Co-Founder & Chairman | — | 7 patents Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials | — |
Top 12 Gaming Tech companies in Los Angeles
#1
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2019 · 30 employees$11.2Mraised▾
Provides audio plugins for games. It allows developers to offer in-game music by top artists. The users can customize the music available in the games. It is a cross-platform music solution for the gaming industry.
- Aug 2024Series A$8.8M
- May 2021Seed$2.4M
#2
Public · Los Angeles, California · founded 1988 · 39 employees$14.5Mraised▾
Platform offering reward-based advertising solution. It is a competitive gaming platform for gamers. The platform allows gamers to play the game and win prizes. It also allows prize providers to enter their prizes and game developers to create matches for gamers. The prizes are redeemable on the Winfinite app. Caters to publishers, developers, advertisers, brands, and casual and hardcore gamers.
- Nov 2023Post IPO—
- Oct 2022Post IPO$1.1M
- Nov 2020Post IPO$1.9M
- Feb 2019Post IPO$1.8M
#3
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2017 · 35 employees$6Mraised▾
High-end virtual reality headset aimed at enterprises. It features 5K resolution, 170-degrees field of view, clear imaging due to its advanced software, unique lens, and display configuration. It includes Unreal SDK, Unity SDK, Autodesk VRED configuration and add-ons for tracking systems. The headset is targeted at enterprises especially for prototyping and training use cases in the automotive, aerospace, architecture, and manufacturing sectors.
- Nov 2023Series A$6M
#4
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2020 · 9 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Provider of an online platform to discover escape rooms. It allows users to discover the escape rooms nearby, track games, rate the game and write reviews.
- Oct 2023Seed$2.2M
#5
Series B · Los Angeles, California · founded 2020 · 47 employees$15Mraised▾
Provider of a game clip sharing tool. It offers a tool for players to share and record game clips of their favourite fighting games like fighting games, FPS, MOBAs, and more.
- May 2022Series B$15M
- Aug 2021Series B$11.6M
#6
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2023$1Mraised▾
Web-based platform for mobile game monetization. It offers an integrated commerce, liveops automation, community engagement, and payments platform for mobile games.
- Oct 2023Seed$1M
#7
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2021 · 9 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Developer of a statistical platform for gaming and the metaverse. It offers a a fully customizable widget system to visualize incoming game data, SDK that you can simply drag and drop into your game engine and start collecting data, track and prevent hackers, griefers, and bots.
- Jan 2023Seed$2.2M
#8
Acquired · Los Angeles, California · founded 2013 · 29 employees$35.9Mraised▾
Provider of live game broadcasting platform for the mobile gamers. It allows mobile gamers to live stream the gameplay performance as they play mobile game. Users can stream the game natively from a mobile device to Mobcrush community members. The app is available mainly for the iOS platform.
- Oct 2016Series B$20M
- Sep 2015Series A$11M
- May 2015Seed$4.9M
#9
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2021$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of gaming monetization solutions. The platform also allows users to earn in-game currency for games like ILP. Users can play games, develop gaming skills, and earn rewards.
- Jun 2022Seed$1.5M
#10
Seed · Los Angeles, California · founded 2013 · 18 employees$8.5Mraised▾
Provider of technology engine for immersive social AR experience. It provides an application that allows users to have an immersive experience in any location around the world. It allows users to walk around and experience, interact, crowdsource, buy, and conduct commerce as if they are physically there.
- Mar 2019Seed$8M
- Dec 2013Seed$525K
#11
Deadpooled · Los Angeles, California · founded 2009 · 10 employees$9.4Mraised▾
Ninja Metrics is an analytics service provider for game developers/publishers. The company has developed "Katana" a social analytics platform for video games. The company claims that Katana provides all the KPIs of the game in handy, sortable, exportable tables as well as graphs.
- Jun 2016Series A$1.6M
- Jun 2015Series A$5M
- Dec 2013Series A$2.8M
#12
Acquired · Los Angeles, California · founded 2014 · 1700 employees$5Mraised▾
ProGuides is an online learning platform for gaming. It enables gamers to learn the techniques for playing the games through game playing videos and improve their ranking for the various games including League of Legends and Hearthstone on the platform. The app is also available on Apple store.
- Jan 2020Seed$5M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Gaming Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth flat
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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