Top Games Startups in 2027

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.

The Verse: Building Games That Heal **THE VERSE OVERVIEW**: The Verse creates games, experiences, and rituals that uplift humanity. **WHO WE ARE:** The Verse is a global community of inspired gamers, developers, designers, scientists, artists, visionaries, teachers, and students who join together to passionately contribute their wide-ranging expertise to invent experiences that enhance human flourishing. **MISSION:** Our mission is to collaboratively create digital therapeutics and experiences that are playful, embodied, and ritual-enriched, that invite co-creation and foster participation and that enhance health, improve well-being and raise consciousness.

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.

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.

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

Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The company’s 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. For more information, please visit unity.com. Download Unity: unity3d.com/get-unity We're hiring! Visit our careers site: careers.unity.com For support, please email: [email protected] Check us out on our other social channels: Twitter: twitter.com/unity3d Facebook: facebook.com/unity3d LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/unity-technologies Instagram: instagram.com/unitytechnologies

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.

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Our business model is to invent disruptive technologies, patent them, and monetize them through technology transfer, licensing, strategic partnership, or investment. Our team has built a two-decade long track record of inventing successful technologies used worldwide. Our prior successes include selling a significant technology portfolio to a tech consortium including Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and SAP, and creating a successful startup.