Hathora is bringing infrastructure expertise to the gaming world
Our team’s mission is to apply our years of experience scaling multi-region, multi-tenant infrastructure to create a platform that suits game developer needs
Our Story
Becoming infrastructure experts
Our founders, Harsh and Sid, both studied Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon and went on to become industry experts in the infrastructure space, leading teams at top SaaS companies like Palantir & Databricks.
Siddharth Dhulipalla
Co-Founder & CEO
Harsh Pandey
Co-Founder & CTO
Taruni Paleru
Product Manager
Justin Chu
Software Engineer
George Price
Software Engineer
Journeying into the gaming industry
After multiple conversations with top gaming studios, they were surprised to find that the gaming industry is far behind when it comes to server infrastructure. Their new venture, Hathora, looks to bring modern cloud techniques to the gaming industry.
The journey so far
March 2020
Our co-founders began work on a multiplayer game, which they expected to take a weekend’s worth of effort. However, it took over 2 months to ship a game. They felt this process could have been significantly easier for developers.
February 2022
Hathora Builder, an opinionated framework for real-time games, was launched and rapidly achieved traction amongst the indie community
April 2022
Hathora was incorporated
July 2022
Hathora Cloud, a modern hosting platform for game servers, was launched in private beta
August 2022
The first ever customer-built game was deployed on our platform
October 2022
Hathora signed its first AAA game
March 2023
Raised a $7.6M seed round led by Upfront Ventures and Founders Fund
We're committed to building a platform that works for you
Invent & Simplify
Constantly look for new ideas to drive innovation while ensuring the simplest experience possible
Listen & Resolve
Pay attention to our customers when they have an issue and deliver fast, practical solutions
Earn Trust
Celebrate our strengths, be honest about where we can improve, and benchmark against the best
