Beamable raises $13.5M for decentralized open source backend infrastructure for games

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February 4, 2025 7:00 AM

Jon Radoff is CEO of Beamable.

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Beamable has raised $13.5 million in funding to develop its decentralized backend infrastructure for online games.

The Beamable Network represents a disruptive shift in the way live games are supported, breaking free from the traditional dependence on centralized hyperscale data centers owned by tech giants, said Jon Radoff, CEO of Beamable, in an interview with GamesBeat.

One of the ways it is doing that is launching blockchain tokens through its Beamable Foundation in the future and open sourcing its technology so that game developers don’t have to worry about whether to entrust their game’s backends to Beamable.

Bitkraft Ventures led the round for the Boston-based company. The funding will support the development and scaling of the Beamable Network, a decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) poised to redefine how backend infrastructure for games is built and operated. It works with any online game supported by Unity or Unreal across platforms including PC, console and mobile.

Beamable Inc. is a software company that is kind of the lab that builds the tech and operates Beamable.com. The Beamable Foundation is independent, without owners. The foundation has a mission to take a license of the Beamable technology, open source it, and make it sustainable from now on, Radoff said. He said he could not discuss specifics of the token launch, which the foundation will share in the future.

Other investors include Arca, Advancit Capital, 2Punks, P2 Ventures, Solana Foundation, Scytale Digital, Defy.vc, GrandBanks Capital and Permit Ventures.

At launch, the network is projected to rank as a top-10 DePIN project by revenue, thanks to the existing demand for its infrastructure among games already running on Beamable’s technology. With millions of users and billions of API calls served to date, the Beamable Network brings unparalleled scalability, cost efficiency, and resilience ...

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