StartPlaying.Games
YC W20 · Active · Building Communities Through Play
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 RuneShared: these game, social, playActiveOther | Other | Active | YCW19 |
 VectordashShared: play, game, gamingInactiveOther | Other | Inactive | YCW19 |
 GuildedShared: social, forum, communityAcquiredOther | Other | Acquired | YCS17 |
 PopsShared: social, play, gameActiveAI | AI | Active | YCX26 |
 CreativeModeShared: entertainment, play, gameActiveAI | AI | Active | YCS24 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 RedbeanShared: entertainment, gameActiveAI | AI | Active | YCS21 |
 DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc.Shared: entertainment, game, gamingActiveDevtools | Devtools | Active | YCS18 |
 Weekend (fmr. Volley)Shared: entertainment, game, gamingActiveAI | AI | Active | YCW18 |
 GamedayShared: social, play, gameInactiveOther | Other | Inactive | YCS17 |
 OMGPopShared: social, game, gamingAcquiredOther | Other | Acquired | YCS06 |
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About StartPlaying.Games
✨ Hello! ✨ - StartPlaying.Games is the largest marketplace for finding game masters to host digital tabletop games like D&D. Today, more than 40 million people play D&D around the world and sales have grown by double-digit percentages for the last five consecutive years. But still finding people to host and play these games with is challenging. Most solutions involve digging through discord servers, reddit, and specialty forums. We built StartPlaying.Games to solve this problem.
- YC batch
- W20 · Winter 2020
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- Other
- Team size
- 6
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote
- Checked
- 33m ago
YC tags: Marketplace, Entertainment, Social
StartPlaying.Games: questions
Which YC batch was StartPlaying.Games in?
StartPlaying.Games was in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch (W20).
Is StartPlaying.Games still active?
Y Combinator lists StartPlaying.Games as active.
Where is StartPlaying.Games based?
StartPlaying.Games lists San Francisco, CA, USA; Remote as its location on YC's directory.
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