Top eSports Startups in 2024

Skillz is the leading marketplace platform that helps players discover mobile games and compete against other players around the world. At the same time, the company helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz has hosted over 2 billion tournaments entries for 30 million mobile players worldwide and distributes over $60 million in prizes each month. Headquartered in San Francisco and Portland, the company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports leagues and franchises including the investment arm of the NFL and owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets and Sacramento Kings. Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

We are building a digital entertainment company to celebrate brain athletes, like we do physical athletes in the world. Centered around a core MMO cognitive race, where players from all walks of life can come race, and showcase their cognitive abilities. In a 'brain race', players have to complete a series of challenges that engage their core mental skills and basic knowledge. Core mental skills include focus, flexibility, attention to detail, processing speed, and memory, fundamental brain components of life. Basic knowledge assesses English, math, science, and general knowledge, the building blocks of further education. We will create the 'Michael Jordan' of mind sports, through an epic game and entertaining game show that celebrates brain performance.

With Versus, interactive entertainment becomes even more engaging, more fun, and more personal. A different approach to digital advertising that yields better results for brands, apps and consumers. Get ahead of the game with the in-app advertising tool that rewards consumers with brands they want while engaging with the games & apps they love.

Blaze as a product is defining a new category in gaming. We have taken elements of casual and social gaming and turned it into a real-money wagering product. Our proprietary content and platform creates a truly differentiated player experience.

Games on Joyride are about having fun with friends and strangers through social experiences. In the apps powered by Joyride, you can play casual multiplayer games that create immersive social experience with new and old friends. Backed by Bitkraft, we are building a superb collection of games with deep social layers that feels intuitive and magical.

FNATIC is a global esports performance brand headquartered in London, laser-focused on seeking out, levelling up and amplifying gamers and creators. Our history is unparalleled. Founded in 2004, we are the most successful esports brand of the last decade, winning more than 200 championships across 30 different games. Today, driven by entertainment, Fnatic is the channel through which the most forward-thinking brands communicate with young people. We deliver industry-leading content, experiences and activations through offices and facilities in cities between Los Angeles and Tokyo. And a future even brighter. We are forerunners in competitive mobile gaming, as the first Tier 1 esports team to launch a presence in India. We pioneered the intersection of street culture and esports with merch collaborations, and will continue to lead the industry in relation to quality of pro wear and fan apparel. Our pros and creators will generate more than 100m hours of entertainment content in 2020, showcasing our global partners to an audience of more than 15m fans across our social platforms. In addition, our 'Fnatic Gear' consumer products will continue to level up and amplify the gaming performance of users wherever they are sold.

Aiming.Pro helps gamers improve their skills at esports. It offers an aim trainer, an interactive training course, and data insights to enable gamers to improve faster. The esports industry is booming. The audience for watching video games is now larger than Netflix and Amazon Prime Video combined and esports prize money exceeded $200m last year. An increasing number of people see esports as a viable career path either as a pro gamer or as a streamer (top streamers can earn millions per month). Over half the audience for livestreams wants to try livestreaming themselves and over a third of gamers would like to become professional. A prerequisite for this is actually being good at gaming but until recently there has been a lack of services to help with this. This is where [Aiming.

We work on cutting-edge and sometimes bleeding-edge technologies; building some really cool products in the Enterprise SAAS, Retail, AI, and Blockchain space! Looking for an organization where you can explore your skillset, have ownership and grow faster? :)

AI-driven engagement platform designed for the gaming community, offering features like user-generated emotes, emotion-based content suggestions, and seamless integration of photos, videos, and live interactions.

Finding out and refining the best talent in the gaming community to compete in the global level. Making eSports as a mainstream career option in India. Encouraging Indian game developers to produce products for the global market.