Top Games Startups in 2026

Zwift is the app that makes indoor training fun. Connecting cyclists and runners around the world, Zwift mixes the intensity of training with the immersive and engaging play of gaming. Ride or run virtual worlds with a community that motivates you at every mile. You'll get faster and stronger and have a blast doing it. You can become the undisputed king or queen of the mountain, leave your competitors in your wake to become the sprint jersey holder, or simply join your friends for a leisurely run on a Sunday morning. Launched from the sunny beaches of Long Beach, CA., the Zwift community is active in 195 countries and growing. We’re endlessly positive, relentlessly inventive, and always looking to improve... wanna join?

MindTickle is a next generation Sales Enablement platform that helps companies prepare their sales reps, support teams and partners in a scalable and effective way. Funded by Accel Partners and recognized as a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in 2014, MindTickle is part of the elite startup club and is carving out a new product category. Ranked #68 in the list of topmost social selling brands globally (ahead of likes of GE Capital and Savo), MindTickle has already garnered an enviable customer list. 12% of the world’s billion dollar startups such as Cloudera, Nutanix, Qualtrics, AppDynamics repose their faith in MindTickle.

Built for organizations that need more control over their communications; it enables collaboration between colleagues, partners, customers, communities, and even platforms without compromises on data ownership, customizations, or integrations. Tens of millions of users in over 150 countries and organizations such as Deutsche Bahn, The US Navy, and Credit Suisse trust Rocket.Chat every day to keep their communications completely private and secure. Rocket.Chat is an enterprise communication hub that offers numerous solutions: Omnichannel Customer Experience, Team Collaboration, and DevOps. The main benefit is to centralize organizational communication and boost productivity by bringing messages, video calls, file sharing, and all team communication into one place. Built-in JavaScript, using the Meteor full-stack framework, the tool offers omnichannel customer engagement through LiveChat widget and integrations with Whatsapp, Twilio, Messenger, SMS, Emails, among others. Team collaboration can be improved by chat messaging, video conferences, audio messages, file sharing, threads, discussion groups, direct or group messages, real-time translation, audit messaging panel, and custom user permissions. DevOps can be accelerated with native integrations offered in Rocket.Chat`s marketplace, real-time LDAP, webhooks, and powerful APIs.

We are the place where millions of people come together live every day to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment together. On our platform you can watch what you love, connect with streamers, and chat with tons of communities. You can share your dream and we’ll help you build the community around them. You can build new stuff as countless communities need custom tools built just for them. Come be the hero.

DraftKings is a sports oriented skill gaming company based in Boston, MA. Our core products are currently in the short-format Fantasy Sports space: DraftKings.com, the leading Daily Fantasy Sports for Cash site, and Fantasy Sports for Coins, a top rated fantasy sports app with versions for the iPhone, Android and Facebook Canvas.

Founded in 2015, Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests - from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

In 2006, Roblox was founded with a mission to power the imaginations of millions of people around the world. Today, Roblox is the leading global platform for shared digital experiences - and the only of its kind to empower a global community of over 150M monthly users to play, imagine and create together. At Roblox, we have embraced the hardest engineering and product challenges to bring people together through play. And we have only just begun. The Roblox platform rests on a rich technology stack that is as inspiring as our players and creators. Roblox takes play seriously. Imagine what we can build together. For all career opportunities, please visit corp.roblox.com/careers.

The world doesn't need another company just because. We promised only to build tapouts if we could figure out a way to impact society for the better. By 2025, tapouts will prepare one million children to take on our future challenges by transforming stress into success. tapouts is a science-backed program that was developed by educators and scientists to create a fun and safe space that enables children, ages 4-16 years, to learn lessons that last a lifetime. tapouts’ experienced and caring certified coaches help kids learn to express feelings, improve self-control, build confidence, and make friends around the world on their online platform. The weekly live virtual group sessions are 30 minutes and filled with games (and prizes!) with an approach combining best practices across interdisciplinary fields such as psychology, neuroscience, and education

Sleeper's mission is to connect people over sports. We believe the most important aspect of sports is its ability to bring friends and communities together. We do this via multi-player games like fantasy leagues, with messaging at the core of the experience. We're hiring and would love to meet you!

We produce original content across YouTube, Snapchat and IGTV, as well as highly engaging shortform content on Instagram and TikTok. In just four years, we’ve amassed over 50 million fans and followers and drive an average of over 1.5 billion video views each month. Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms, industry leaders, and athletes, including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Sapphire Sport, Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), Micromanagement Ventures (the family of the late David Stern), Black Capital, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint Global, Blackstone Strategic Partners, PROOF, Gaingels, Alexis Ohanian, Drake, and 30+ NBA stars including Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant.