Filling a void with live multiplayer skill games w/ Aman Agarwal & Jatin Narang from Toast

Ep. 159 features Aman Agarwal and Jatin Narang from Toast, building live multiplayer skill games with built-in player liquidity for real money iGaming. This episode was recorded at the World Trade Center during the NEXT Summit New York in March 2025. Hear them discuss: - Toast’s origins: uniting Aman’s gambling roots and Jatin’s free-to-play expertise - Blending gambling psychology with free-to-play innovation to shape their vision - Their thesis for how skill games can fill the U.S. iCasino regulatory gap - How they ideate on new game concepts and formats, including their latest skill-based basketball game - Their learnings from the last G2E conference that led to development of new core infrastructure - How interest in their games is converting into commercial traction - How growing interest in entrepreneurship has led to a startup boom in India - Securing a Lightspeed seed round pre-product in just six weeks Check out a demo of one of Toast's games here:  21-jack.playtoast.com Watch the video version of this episode youtu.be/a_Ja0JiEYP4 here Learn more 👇 ➡️ Toast playtoast.com website ➡️ Aman Agarwal linkedin.com/in/amanagarwal424 on Linkedin ➡️ Jatin Narang linkedin.com/in/jatin-narang1 on Linkedin 📩 Get the top headlines from the industry's most promising growth-stage companies every week—totally free! Subscribe to the Betting Startups newsletter here:  news.bettingstartups.com