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DreamCraft Entertainment, Inc.
DreamCraft Entertainment is a San Mateo-based startup building a code-free game creation platform that lets anyone design, publish, and monetize video games without programming or art skills. Its game editor handles the heavy technical lifting - multiplayer, cross-platform support, performance and memory management - while bundling a library of casual and cartoon-style art assets, so creators can focus on gameplay. Founded in 2018 by Tianyin Zhang and Veronica Yao and backed by Y Combinator, Tencent, Makers Fund and March Gaming, the company raised a $10M Series A in 2021 to democratize game development.
Bezi
Bezi is a San Francisco software company building an AI assistant that lives inside the Unity game engine. It indexes a developer's entire project in real time - scripts, scenes, assets, packages - so it can debug, generate code and shaders, build editor tools, and automate repetitive work with full project context. Founded in 2021 as a collaborative 3D design tool by ex-Oculus designers, Bezi raised $13M led by Benchmark and later pivoted to focus on AI for game makers, positioning itself as 'AI for building real games, not generating them.'