Gameflip
8 known investors
Find your way into Gameflip
485 people in our graph share verified history with the Gameflip team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.
.jpeg)
Gameflip is an online marketplace where individuals and professional sellers buy and sell gaming items, including in-game items, game codes, and Steam games, with delivery options such as auto-delivery and bot delivery. It provides buyer protection through a cash-back guarantee covering items that fail to arrive or don't match their listing.
Also known as Gameflip
Founders & leadership
Investors · 8
Also in the syndicate · 1
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeries ASep 2025
Accel (lead), Laton Ventures, Tencent
Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Gameflip operates a peer-to-peer digital marketplace for gaming and entertainment goods. Its main categories are in-game items, game codes and full games across platforms including Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Steam and Meta Quest, plus gift cards (PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, Nintendo, App Store, Google Play and retail/streaming brands) and movies. Listings come from both individual gamers and professional sellers, and the marketplace is accessible via web and a mobile app.
Delivery is handled through several mechanisms depending on item type: auto-delivery, in which the item is held by Gameflip and released automatically after purchase; coordinated transfer, in which buyer and seller arrange the in-game or in-platform handover through the order page; manual delivery of codes through the order page; and bot delivery, used for Steam games held by a Gameflip bot and transferred on request. Purchases are covered by the "Gameflip Guarantee," a 100% cash-back policy applying when a seller fails to send an item, the delivered item does not work, or the item does not match the listing description; buyers raise disputes from the order page and support staff intervene. Buyers can chat with sellers post-purchase and review seller profiles and ratings.
Founding story
Co-founders JT Nguyen and Terry Ngo met while studying for MS degrees in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Both had prior gaming-industry careers and had worked together at Aeria Games, a free-to-play games publisher and developer, where Nguyen was COO and Ngo was CTO and co-founder. They founded Gameflip together, with Nguyen serving as CEO and Ngo as CTO.
Business model
Gameflip runs a two-sided marketplace connecting individual and professional sellers of digital gaming goods with buyers, holding items or codes in escrow-like arrangements (auto-delivery, bot delivery) and backing transactions with a cash-back guarantee. The company positions itself for three audiences: buyers seeking discounted gaming goods, gamers monetizing items earned through play, and non-gamers trading unused gift cards.
Traction
Company-reported figures include more than 17.6 million items sold, over 6 million registered users and 22,000+ app reviews with a 4.5/5 App Store rating on its homepage, and over 14 million transactions, $180+ million in sales, 3 million app downloads, 7+ million users and 40+ million item listings on its About page.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Gameflip describes itself as one of the few worldwide gaming marketplaces based in the United States, spanning game items, game codes, gift cards and movies.
Technology
The platform combines web and mobile applications with delivery infrastructure that includes custodial auto-delivery of items, a Gameflip bot for holding and transferring Steam items, and encrypted purchase information, alongside dispute-resolution tooling on the order page.
Go-to-market
Gamers buying and selling in-game items and game keys, bargain-seeking purchasers of games and gift cards, professional digital-goods sellers, and non-gamers looking to buy discounted or sell unused gift cards.
Geography
Headquartered in the United States (founded in Silicon Valley, California), serving a global user base with a distributed, multinational team; listings include region-specific keys for markets such as the US, Europe, Canada and Japan.
History
Gameflip has operated since 2015 and was founded in Silicon Valley, California. By the time of its About page, the company described approaching a decade of operation, more than 14 million transactions to date, and backing from venture capital funds.
Compiled by commissioned research from 6 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
In the news
▸Research sources · 6
primary sources listed
- Gameflipgameflip.com · web
6 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Gameflip do?
- Gameflip is a US-based online marketplace for buying and selling game items, game codes, gift cards and movies.
- Who founded Gameflip?
- Gameflip was founded by Terry Ngo.
- Who are Gameflip's investors?
- Gameflip's investors include Bullpen Capital, Forefront Venture, GoAhead Ventures, Social Starts, Accel, Alpaca VC, Laton Ventures.