Mapping The Gaming and ESports VC Landscape

The previous misconception of a male gamer playing alone in his mancave for hours on end is now dead

It is hard to call a market with 2.7 billion participants and annual spend of over $150B underrated. But despite its scale, the gaming market has only recently “graduated” from a mass market social norm perspective beyond something kids do when they should be studying or playing sports.

All the major gaming platforms are getting crowded. Unexpected success stories where games become viral are becoming further apart. Gaming founders need to be data driven even in their early creative iterations, have marketing professionals embedded in their team from the get go and carefully and ensure a healthy CAC-LTV formula from the early days... See more

2 — Social / Community: Social media platforms that address the gamers and viewers who want to play, view, attend and discuss gameplay, events, and tournaments related to gaming present a unique opportunity to gather large, highly monetizable audiences