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SteelSeries Built a $1 Billion Gaming Brand by Learning What Not to Make
A glass mousepad fixed one Counter-Strike player's dusty little problem. An MP3-player flop taught his company to stop wandering - and focus became the product.
The Keyboard Company That Sells Out in Ten Minutes
Gamers were covered in dripping fashion and typing on basic black plastic. Two collectors decided that gap was worth a brand - and turned mechanical keyboards into a drop culture.
The Guillemot Brothers Sell You the Ferrari Wheel and the DJ Deck
Five brothers from a Brittany village of a few thousand people built the joystick empire behind Microsoft Flight Simulator and the decks that teach the world to DJ. The famous siblings run Ubisoft. This is what the quieter ones do.
The Gaming Company That Turned a Three-Headed Snake Into a $2 Billion Cult
It started with one gaming mouse and a promise that felt slightly ridiculous - build only for gamers, nobody else. Twenty-plus years later that stubbornness is a hardware empire, a payments business, and a snake logo people tattoo on themselves.
The Budget Gaming Brand Betting Its Whole Pitch on 0.2 Milliseconds
A4Tech has sold computer mice since 1987. Its Bloody line skips the metal contacts inside a switch and fires on a beam of light instead - then sells the result to gamers who won't pay Razer money.
SPARK Microsystems
SPARK Microsystems is a Montreal-based fabless semiconductor company building ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless transceivers that aim for wire-like performance without the wire. Its patented LE-UWB technology delivers ultra-low latency, high data throughput, and very low power draw, targeting applications where Bluetooth falls short: wireless audio, gaming peripherals, AR/VR and AI wearables, presence detection, and industrial IoT. Founded in 2016 by researchers out of Montreal's engineering community, SPARK has raised roughly CAD $48M+ and is scaling commercial adoption of its second-generation SR1120 transceiver.