GGWP, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a AI-based game moderation platform, raised $10M in funding.
Backers included Samsung Ventures and SK Telecom Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the growth of the platform and to continue working with teams on large AAA titles, as well as startups accelerating the next wave of games.
Founded by Dennis “Thresh” Fong, Kun Gao, and Dr. George Ng, GGWP is an artificial intelligence-based platform to help combat toxicity in online games. It works to holistically combat harmful and disruptive player behavior through a variety of solutions which can be used together or separately:
- Player Reports by automatically validating, triaging, and prioritizing reports and improving the response rate.
- Usernames by catching the unnatural language, l33tspeak, and workarounds that gamers use to create inappropriate usernames.
- Chat by using contextual AI to identify and respond to difficult-to-detect behaviors like sarcasm, gameplay criticism, bullying, hate speech, child grooming, and more.
- Player Behavior by using AI to automatically detect behaviors such as intentional AFK, leaving a match early in a team-based game, friendly fire, feeding, griefing, trolling, and more.
- Discord bot that leverages the same chat and reputation models to help moderate Discord servers and brings Discord incidents into the same view on the platform.
- Game-specific Context via a system that takes into account additional factors to help determine player intention and context for every incident.
FinSMEs
19/07/2023