Major League Gaming, Inc.

https://www.majorleaguegaming.com/

Last activity: 30.01.2025

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Major League Gaming Inc. (MLG) is the first professional video game league.

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Overview

Location

United States, New York

Employees

11-50

Total raised

$10M

Founded date

2002

Investors 1

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Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 31

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Nov 29, 2024	POWER UP THE HOLIDAYS WITH iBUYPOWER'S ANNUAL BLACK FRIDAY SALES ON PREBUILT AND CUSTOM GAMING PCS	iBP Black Friday Sales (PRNewsfoto/iBUYPOWER) Exclusive Limited Time Sales Now Live on Top System Integrator's Gaming PC Lineup CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., Nov. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- To close out its 25th anniversary servicing t...
Dec 15, 2017	Overwatch League’s success could remake esports	For years, esports has developed and grown organically and without much structure, a real Wild West of teams and leagues and sponsors. Game publishers were so happy that people were buying, playing, and talking about their games that they w...
Dec 15, 2017	Overwatch League’s success could remake esports	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. For years, esports has developed and grown organically and without much structure, a real Wild West of teams and leagues and sponsors. ...
Jun 13, 2017	LA offers a fertile playing field for esports investments	Minard Hamilton Contributor Minard Hamilton, is a partner at BITKRAFT Esports Ventures, an early stage investor and incubator with offices in both Berlin and Santa Monica. It’s 78° and sunny in Venice. The southwest swell is drawing surfers...
May 2, 2017	Wavedash raises $6 million for its platform fighting game	Hearkening back to the old days of iconic Nintendo games like Super Smash Bros, Wavedash Games has raised $6 million for a vision of platform fighting games as the next big thing in social gaming. Taking platform fighter games beyond the ga...
Jan 8, 2016	Activision Blizzard acquires Major League Gaming; Silvercar raises $28 million in Series C round led by Audi; Toast raises $30 million	Despite it being only the first week of January, it has been a busy week around the startup world. Intel has acquired Ascending Technologies, while Activision Blizzard has acquired Major League Gaming to bolster its live streaming offering....
Jan 4, 2016	Activision Blizzard buys MLG for estimated $46M to build ‘ESPN of esports’	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Just weeks after announcing its esports division, Activision Blizzard has acquired the assets of live esports event organizer Major Lea...
Jul 3, 2015	Thanks to Twitch, e-sports is hitting record numbers	The space has raised more than half of its total funding since Amazon acquired Twitch last year Do you ever realized that nobody really talks about the e-sports category? It's a space that I've covered many times, with numerous co...
Sep 15, 2014	PewDiePie Joins MLG, Bringing Mad Star Power To The Twitch Rival	PewDiePie, the reigning king of YouTube, will now stream episodes of his gaming podcast “BroKen” on MLG.tv. Felix Kjellberg and Kenneth Morrison Starting Monday, the Swedish YouTube gamer better known as Felix Kjellberg, will be posting epi...
Apr 17, 2014	Major League Gaming Snags New VP From Machinima To Further Grow Its MLG.tv Network	Major League Gaming (MLG), one of the oldest e-sports companies out there, picked up a new hire today from Machinima, another well-known gaming content company. Ryan Wyatt will join MLG as its vp of programming. The hire fits into MLG’s MLG...
Apr 5, 2014	5 Things You Didn’t Know About Pro Gaming	If “professional gaming” was once an oxymoron, those days are long gone. Video games, once a somewhat solitary affair, have exploded into full-featured social affairs, thanks to the rise of massive multiplayer online PC games and features t...
Jan 13, 2014	Esports Giant MLG Swings To An Operating Profit On Strength Of Its New Media Strategy	In an interview with onGamers, MLG CEO Sundance DiGiovanni stated that since the release of its recent MLG.tv service, the company has been “EBITA positive and expects to stay EBITA positive on a quarterly basis in 2014.” TechCrunch covered...
Dec 12, 2013	Working To Mature Its Esports Business, MLG Delivered 262% More Video To Its Fans In 2013	Major League Gaming, better known as MLG, saw its audience greatly expand in 2013 according to data it provided to TechCrunch. Its audience watched a total of 54 million hours of its content in the year, up 262% from 2012. In more stark con...
Nov 27, 2013	Gaming’s Next Revolution Will Be Live Streamed, And The PS4 Has A Nice Lead	This holiday season, only one of the two major next-gen consoles will feature an out-of-the-box game-streaming solution: Sony’s PlayStation 4. And that streaming feature taps into some powerful trends that should act as an ambassador for th...
Nov 18, 2013	Major League Gaming Launches Its Own Premium E-Sports Network, MLG.TV	E-sports programmer Major League Gaming has spent the last decade building an audience of video game enthusiasts, through events in which gamers go head-to-head with each other. Now it’s looking to bring those viewers to a an owned and oper...
Feb 10, 2013	IGN’s David Ting wants developers to build a digital stadium for e-sports	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. E-sports are in an early stage. After all, basketball was invented in 1891, professional basketball leagues were formed in barns in the...
Oct 24, 2012	Startup News: Bloomberg Wiring up NYC and Canadians Make Sweet Love to Songza	Mr. Bloomberg. (Twitter) Time Warner Still Sucks On Friday, Mayor Bloomberg made a big move toward ing promise to expand broadband in New York. He launched ConnectNYC, a contest for small businesses that will award free fiber cable wiring (...
Jan 17, 2012	Which anti-SOPA game companies are fighting back, and how	The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have definitely gotten the Internet’s attention, but not in the good Elmo orders Taco Bell sort of way. This is more like Rebecca Black announcing she’s obtained the license to the...
Jan 17, 2012	Which anti-SOPA game companies are fighting back, and how	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) have definitely gotten the Internet’s attention, but not in the good Elmo o...
Jan 12, 2012	League of Legends developer takes anti-SOPA stance, urges players to write to Congress	Riot Games, developer of popular free-to-play online game League of Legends, has announced its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Chief Executive Office Brandon Beck announced in a forum statement “While we do support efforts ...
Jan 12, 2012	League of Legends developer takes anti-SOPA stance, urges players to write to Congress	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Riot Games, developer of popular free-to-play online game League of Legends, has announced its opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act...
Aug 16, 2011	Major League Gaming Raises $3M in Debt	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints New York-based Major League Gaming has raised $3.1 million in debt and rights, as part of a funding round that could reach $4.9 million, according to an SEC filing. Major Leag...
Mar 31, 2011	Shapemix for the iPad will unleash your inner DJ	If you’ve ever dreamed of leaving your desk job and starting anew as a DJ (which isn’t unheard of these days), Shapemix for the iPad will get you started. Shapemix ($4.99 on the iTunes App Store) takes advantage of the iPad’s multitouch int...
Feb 16, 2011	Pro gamers to get recognition as athletes on major sports broadcasts	Professional gamers have been trying to get primetime attention as real athletes for years. They’re finally succeeding now, as evidenced by the fact that a major sports broadcast distributor has agreed to air the broadcasts of Major League ...
Feb 16, 2011	Pro gamers to get recognition as athletes on major sports broadcasts	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Professional gamers have been trying to get primetime attention as real athletes for years. They’re finally succeeding now, as evidence...
Dec 24, 2010	Funding roundup - week ending 12/24/10	Elevance, Lookout, LS9, Major League Gaming, Mass Relevance, Nasuni, PixelFish Early-stage Mass Relevance, a social marketing company that just launched, secured nearly $2 million from the Floodgate Fund (formerly Maples Investments) and Au...
Dec 21, 2010	Major League Gaming holds Initial Close of $10m Financing	Major League Gaming, a professional video game league and provider of cross platform online videogame competition, has held an initial close of a $10m financing commitment to be completed in the first quarter of 2011. Investors include Legi...
Dec 20, 2010	Major League Gaming raising $10M for tournament gaming	For some gamers, competing in a darkened living room gets old. That’s what fuels the growth of Major League Gaming, a tournament gaming company that announced today it has raised $10 million in funding to continue staging live video-game co...
Dec 20, 2010	Major League Gaming raising $10M for tournament gaming	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. For some gamers, competing in a darkened living room gets old. That’s what fuels the growth of Major League Gaming, a tournament gaming...
Dec 20, 2010	Major League Gaming gets $10 million round	Professional video game league and competition host MLG raises more funding from Legion Enterprises Major League Gaming (MLG), a professional video game league and provider of cross-platform competitions, announced Monday the initial closin...

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FAQ about Major League Gaming, Inc.

When was Major League Gaming, Inc. founded?

Major League Gaming, Inc. was founded in 2002.

How much funding has Major League Gaming, Inc. raised?

Major League Gaming, Inc. has raised $10M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Major League Gaming, Inc.?

Parsers VC has collected 31 articles mentioning Major League Gaming, Inc., among them “POWER UP THE HOLIDAYS WITH iBUYPOWER'S ANNUAL BLACK FRIDAY SALES ON PREBUILT AND CUSTOM GAMING PCS” (Nov 29, 2024) and “Overwatch League’s success could remake esports” (Dec 15, 2017).

Is Major League Gaming, Inc. still active?

Yes, Major League Gaming, Inc. is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 30, 2025.