Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Gaming companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Gaming industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top San Francisco Gaming Startups
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Razer
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Razer develops high-end precision gaming products by combining technology, ergonomics, and expert validation.
Zynga
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Zynga develops, markets, and operates social games as live services played on the Internet.
Forte
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We’re building economic technology for games using blockchain.
Chartboost
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Chartboost is one of the largest mobile-games only marketplace to increase revenue and discover new players.
Fandom
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Fandom is a developer of a global entertainment media platform designed for fans to explore, contribute to, and celebrate.
Glu Mobile
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Glu Mobile is a technology platform developing entertainment-focused freemium games for smartphones and tablet devices.
Double Loop Games
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Double Loop Games is a mobile studio dedicated to making delightful, relaxing experiences for the biggest audience in games.
Pocket Gems
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Pocket Gems’ mission is to be one of the world’s great creators of innovative interactive entertainment on mobile.
Sanlo
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Vertically-focused platform of financial services for the gaming & app companies
Kabam
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Kabam develops multiplayer games on mobile, online, and social networks.
Guilded
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Guilded helps gaming teams recruit, improve, and complete.
Ubiquity6
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Ubiquity6 uses computer vision to enable massively multiplayer, persistent AR experiences on top of the physical world.
Kamcord
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Kamcord is a social media platform allowing its users to post and interact through video content.
Lowkey
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The home for watching and creating short gaming videos
Athlane
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Athlane facilitates sponsorship and endorsement deals between streamers and brands.
CodeCombat
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CodeCombat creates game-based computer science programs that engage and captivate students as they learn to type real code.
KIXEYE
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KIXEYE is an independent game developer responsible for titles like Desktop Defender, Backyard Monsters, Battle Pirates and War Commander.
Kongregate
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Kongregate is a mobile game publisher and web gaming portal.
Pocket Worlds
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Pocket Worlds operates as a mobile gaming company.
TinyCo
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TinyCo, a mobile gaming creator, was acquired by Jam City
ForeVR
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ForeVR is a gaming company dedicated to bringing VR to the masses.
Drivetime
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Drivetime provides an online platform designed to help users play games while they drive.
Little Passports
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Little Passports inspires children to learn about other countries and cultures.
Rune
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Rune is a voice chat and automated friend or squad finder for players on mobile games.
Ryu Games
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Changing the way people make and play mobile games
Azarus
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Azarus is a new game challenge network that allows Gamers and Streamers to engage with each other in unprecedented ways.
Latent Space
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Latent Space is a developer of virtual reality technology intended to offer a fully artificial intelligence rendered 3D engine.
TidePool
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Tidepool offers a game-based technology that enables users to decode personality traits, emotions, and short-term cognitive processes.
Arctop
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Arctop provides brain decoding technology that analyzes brain signals to produces an accurate measure of the mind in real-time.
Hyper Online
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Hyper Online is an avatar-based social network for anime and gaming fans.
YUR
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YUR is a fitness and health platform designed to make fitness a game using virtual reality.
Carnivore, Inc.
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Makers of Clan HQ, mobile messenger for mobile gamers.
Zengaming
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Zengaming is a professional and competitive network for gamers.
PlayPhone
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PlayPhone is a social gaming developer providing solutions to wireless carriers.
SquareTwo
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Mobile entertainment +1. They power the real value behind points.
MaxPlay
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MaxPlay is a game technology solutions and services provider focused on advancing game development tools for game developers of all sizes.
Mountaintop Studios
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Mountaintop Studios is a game studio creating multiplayer games.
FunCraft
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FunCraft is to make mobile games that are daily rituals in our players’ lives.
GameTree
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GameTree is a free app for finding gaming friends and building strong teams.
Legionfarm
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LegionFarm connects gamers with in-game training and assistance from professional players.
PlayFirst
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PlayFirst is a developer of mobile games that includes the Dash® series of games.
Highbrow
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Highbrow is an email based learning service that brings bite-sized courses straight to users’ inbox every morning.
JuiceBox Games
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JuiceBox Games build games with soul to deliver the best entertainment experiences.
Ignite Game Technologies
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Ignite Game Technologies offers online gaming services such as video games.
StartPlaying.Games
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Social online game experiences hosted by professional game hosts
Proxy42
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Proxy42 is on a mission to build the best world-scale AR platform designed to blend shared augmented worlds with the real world.
Heroic Labs
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Heroic Labs builds social infrastructure for games and apps.
Proteus Games
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Proteus Games mobile development company working with mobile game publishers.
Double Crown Gaming Co.
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Purveyors of Friendly Competition
Apptuto
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Apptuto is an edtech startup providing a gamified social learning solution to students undertaking standardised exams.
Breaktime Studios
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Breaktime Studios is a free-to-play social games developer and publisher for tablets and smartphones.
Idle Gaming
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Idle Games® offers Idle Engine, a distributed simulation platform designed to provide an unshared game world with social game mechanics.
Yomob Technology
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A Mobile SaaS company with AI based technology to maximize ad performance and revenue for the mobile game and app developers.
Tactical Haptics
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Tactical Haptics commercializes haptic game controllers for advanced touch feedback in applications ranging from training to VR arcades.
Playerize
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Playerize provides monetization and high quality user acquisition solutions for the social and mobile gaming industry.
MindKick
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MindKick is a mobile gaming company that launches and operates a portfolio of theme-based gaming communities.
Find A Game, Inc.
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Helping golf course operators eliminate partially-filled tee times via social- and handicap-relevant invitations.
WATTY Games
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WATTY Games uses the latest advances in Augmented Reality to create an entirely new game experience.
OpenWager
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OpenWager is a premier B2B partner in delivering custom branded social casino entertainment to enjoy anywhere, anytime.
Stateless Networks
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Stateless Networks is modernizing physical network operations in the era of the Software Defined Data Center.
Bionic Panda Games
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Bionic Panda Games is a cross-platform mobile social games company.
Pangea Mobile
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Pangea Mobile focuses on making Chinese games thrive in the Western market with our service and solutions platform.
