Play Ventures

Play Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 and based in Singapore. The company specializes in investing globally in startups within the gaming and gaming services sectors, focusing on pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. Play Ventures emphasizes opportunities in free-to-play and web3 gaming, aiming to support innovative companies that shape the future of the gaming industry. Through its strategic investments, Play Ventures seeks to nurture a diverse portfolio of gaming-related ventures.

Anton Backman

Principal

Kenrick Drijkoningen

General Partner

Phylicia Koh

Vice President

Harri Manninen

Managing Partner

Henric Suuronen

Managing Partner

Past deals in Mobile

Alinea

Series A in 2025
Alinea is a mobile investing platform that simplifies personal finance for beginners. It enables users to create themed investment playlists, automate investments through recurring contributions, and make informed decisions using relevant insights. The platform also facilitates social trading by allowing users to view and share strategies with peers.

PvX Partners

Seed Round in 2025
PvX Partners is a technology company that provides a platform to help consumer app businesses scale. It offers PvX Capital, a financing service that delivers fast, flexible capital for marketing spends, without the risks or drawbacks of traditional equity or debt financing. Additionally, PvX Partners is developing an operating system for growth, a unified platform that integrates various tools to enhance return on ad spend (ROAS) and support consumer businesses' growth strategies.

Appcharge

Series A in 2024
Appcharge provides a mobile-first web store platform for direct-to-consumer sales. It offers over 500 payment methods and supports 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless global checkout experience.

Deftouch

Venture Round in 2024
Deftouch is a game development company that currently focuses on winning the Cricket gaming market, by providing a billion cricket-mad followers with a platform to engage & interact with their daydreams with a social, Realtime multiplayer game.

Black Block

Funding Round in 2024
Black Block is a Finland-based gaming studio with a remote-first approach. It comprises industry veterans who have collectively built top-grossing franchises across mobile and AAA platforms. The studio is currently developing 'The Sprawl', an upcoming blockchain-enabled massively multiplayer online game.

Cypher Games

Seed Round in 2024
Cypher Games is a developer of casual mobile puzzle games, aiming to shape the future of mobile gaming.

Odeeo

Seed Round in 2024
Odeeo operates an innovative audio advertisement platform designed to enhance the gaming experience. By overlaying contextual audio ads within games, Odeeo helps developers monetize untapped in-game real estate without compromising user engagement. For brands, it offers a scalable, immersive, and brand-safe environment to reach an attentive audience of over 2.7 billion mobile gamers worldwide.

Social First

Seed Round in 2024
Social First is a seasoned game development studio specializing in cross-platform social sandbox MMOs. With a proven track record and successful early market testing, their current title showcases significant advancements in user-generated content, digital asset trading, and social gameplay. Backed by Play Ventures, they aim to become a billion-dollar company.

Order of Meta

Seed Round in 2024
Order of Meta is a gaming studio focusing on the development of free-to-play mobile games. Comprising experienced creators who specialize in mid-core and hardcore genres, the company aims to produce engaging action games that introduce innovative metagame elements. With a mission to deliver fresh and thrilling experiences in the mobile gaming sphere, Order of Meta seeks to captivate players through familiar gameplay mechanics combined with novel features, particularly in the shooting game segment.

Kek Entertainment

Seed Round in 2023
Kek Entertainment specializes in developing multiplayer mobile games.

Move Ai

Seed Round in 2023
Move AI is revolutionizing the motion capture industry by enabling anyone to capture high-quality motion data using just a phone. With its patented artificial intelligence and computer vision technology, Move AI eliminates the need for complex equipment, suits, or markers, making motion capture accessible to 3D animators, content creators, and developers across the globe. By using Move’s app, users can record motion in any environment, and the software will analyze the video, extract natural human motion, and deliver precise motion data in minutes. This breakthrough technology, grounded in biomechanics and physics, simplifies the process of translating human movement into digital data, fostering creativity in gaming, film, and other industries reliant on digital animation.

Redemption Games

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2015, Redemption Games specializes in developing and publishing casual games for mobile devices. Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, the company focuses on creating entertaining experiences that require a blend of skill and effort.

Tower Pop

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in Finland in 2020, Tower Pop is a mobile gaming company specializing in tower defense games. It aims to innovate game development by creating dynamic and engaging gameplay experiences.

Jarvi Games

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Jarvi Games is a young team dedicated to creating the best mobile MMO action game experiences. They specialize in open-world multiplayer games featuring vehicles and firearms.

Appcharge

Seed Round in 2022
Appcharge provides a mobile-first web store platform for direct-to-consumer sales. It offers over 500 payment methods and supports 100 currencies, ensuring a seamless global checkout experience.

Tribo Games

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tribo Games is a mobile-first game studio focused on developing web3 games. The company specializes in creating mobile-based multiplayer games that allow players to engage with blockchain technology and earn rewards through their gameplay. By integrating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) into their games, Tribo Games enables players to have digital ownership of their in-game assets, providing a potential income source for gamers.

Black Block

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Black Block is a Finland-based gaming studio with a remote-first approach. It comprises industry veterans who have collectively built top-grossing franchises across mobile and AAA platforms. The studio is currently developing 'The Sprawl', an upcoming blockchain-enabled massively multiplayer online game.

Parallelz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Parallelz is a technology company that develops a platform allowing users to create and share innovative versions of popular mobile games. The platform enhances creative output by providing a computing architecture that facilitates the delivery, distribution, and discovery of mobile applications. This technology enables developers to effortlessly transform their existing native mobile apps into fully native web applications without the need for modifications or additional software development tools. By focusing on amplifying creativity and improving the digital experience, Parallelz aims to contribute to a better internet for all users.

Odeeo

Seed Round in 2022
Odeeo operates an innovative audio advertisement platform designed to enhance the gaming experience. By overlaying contextual audio ads within games, Odeeo helps developers monetize untapped in-game real estate without compromising user engagement. For brands, it offers a scalable, immersive, and brand-safe environment to reach an attentive audience of over 2.7 billion mobile gamers worldwide.

Cypher Games

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Cypher Games is a developer of casual mobile puzzle games, aiming to shape the future of mobile gaming.

Battlebound

Seed Round in 2022
Battlebound leverages blockchain technology to develop play-to-earn games, focusing on a multiplayer social platform that enhances the creature-collecting genre. The company's platform allows all players to share the value generated by engaging with video games they enjoy. Players can create servers, participate in mini-games, and interact with community members within a gaming environment.

Treasure Play

Seed Round in 2022
Treasure Play is a Web3-focused game development company that creates engaging gaming experiences for web and mobile platforms. It specializes in AI-powered tools for game developers, offering AI-driven quests, dynamic rewards, and actionable insights to help them grow and monetize their user base. The company seamlessly integrates these tools with existing game infrastructure, enabling developers to acquire users, analyze game performance, and optimize their games.

Potato Play

Seed Round in 2022
Potato Play is a Singapore-based mobile game publisher and platform developer that aims to turn mobile titles from Asia into worldwide hits through data-driven publishing. The company publishes games such as Merge Quest, Pocket Racing, and Crossing Gaps and provides a platform to support game development across genres, including puzzles, action, and racing.

Social First

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Social First is a seasoned game development studio specializing in cross-platform social sandbox MMOs. With a proven track record and successful early market testing, their current title showcases significant advancements in user-generated content, digital asset trading, and social gameplay. Backed by Play Ventures, they aim to become a billion-dollar company.

mod.io

Series A in 2021
mod.io is a cross-platform mod support and user-generated content service that enables game studios to harness community creativity across PC, console, and mobile. Since its 2019 launch, it has been adopted by more than 50 games and supports a large creator community, with about 400,000 daily users, 600,000 pieces of content, and over 100 million mods installed. The platform provides an accessible API and marketplace to create, manage, and distribute mods and other user-generated content across platforms and stores, helping developers build long-term engagement and creator ecosystems.

Kek Entertainment

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kek Entertainment specializes in developing multiplayer mobile games.

Order of Meta

Seed Round in 2021
Order of Meta is a gaming studio focusing on the development of free-to-play mobile games. Comprising experienced creators who specialize in mid-core and hardcore genres, the company aims to produce engaging action games that introduce innovative metagame elements. With a mission to deliver fresh and thrilling experiences in the mobile gaming sphere, Order of Meta seeks to captivate players through familiar gameplay mechanics combined with novel features, particularly in the shooting game segment.

Mobile Premier League

Series E in 2021
Mobile Premier League is a skill-based eSports platform that enables users to play popular mobile games and compete for real cash prizes. Its app offers a diverse range of arcade, sports, adventure, pool, and cricket games, allowing enthusiasts to showcase their skills, win rewards, and enjoy gaming with friends.

Odeeo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Odeeo operates an innovative audio advertisement platform designed to enhance the gaming experience. By overlaying contextual audio ads within games, Odeeo helps developers monetize untapped in-game real estate without compromising user engagement. For brands, it offers a scalable, immersive, and brand-safe environment to reach an attentive audience of over 2.7 billion mobile gamers worldwide.

Monday OFF

Seed Round in 2021
Monday OFF is a mobile game developer and publisher located in South Korea.

Deftouch

Seed Round in 2021
Deftouch is a game development company that currently focuses on winning the Cricket gaming market, by providing a billion cricket-mad followers with a platform to engage & interact with their daydreams with a social, Realtime multiplayer game.

Colossi Games

Seed Round in 2021
Colossi Games Ltd is a mobile game developer based in Limassol, Cyprus, founded in 2020 by a team of industry veterans from notable Russian gaming companies. The company specializes in creating action role-playing games for mobile devices, focusing on delivering engaging gameplay experiences tailored for a midcore audience. Colossi Games aims to redefine gaming genres by integrating socially engaging elements with familiar mechanics, ensuring that players enjoy unique and captivating game dynamics. Through its innovative approach, Colossi Games seeks to entertain and connect with gamers around the world.

Mobile Premier League

Series D in 2021
Mobile Premier League is a skill-based eSports platform that enables users to play popular mobile games and compete for real cash prizes. Its app offers a diverse range of arcade, sports, adventure, pool, and cricket games, allowing enthusiasts to showcase their skills, win rewards, and enjoy gaming with friends.

mod.io

Seed Round in 2020
mod.io is a cross-platform mod support and user-generated content service that enables game studios to harness community creativity across PC, console, and mobile. Since its 2019 launch, it has been adopted by more than 50 games and supports a large creator community, with about 400,000 daily users, 600,000 pieces of content, and over 100 million mods installed. The platform provides an accessible API and marketplace to create, manage, and distribute mods and other user-generated content across platforms and stores, helping developers build long-term engagement and creator ecosystems.

Bigger Games

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2019, Bigger Games is a mobile gaming company dedicated to developing casual games that engage millions of players worldwide.

Potato Play

Seed Round in 2020
Potato Play is a Singapore-based mobile game publisher and platform developer that aims to turn mobile titles from Asia into worldwide hits through data-driven publishing. The company publishes games such as Merge Quest, Pocket Racing, and Crossing Gaps and provides a platform to support game development across genres, including puzzles, action, and racing.

TrapLight Games

Venture Round in 2020
Traplight Oy, established in 2010 and located in Tampere, Finland, specializes in developing mobile game communities that emphasize user-generated content. The company focuses on creating free-to-play games that are both accessible and engaging, offering players enjoyable gameplay and a sense of progression. Traplight encourages players to create and share their own games, integrating player-generated levels into the core gaming experience. The company has garnered support from prominent investors and has a team of 28 dedicated professionals working on multiple projects. Their notable title, Big Bang Racing, received recognition as one of the best apps in 2016 on the App Store. Traplight is currently preparing to soft launch its next major game, aiming to provide lasting entertainment that evolves with player preferences.

unrd

Venture Round in 2020
unrd develops interactive mobile entertainment that blends cinematic storytelling with engaging gameplay, aiming to pioneer a new genre that merges Hollywood-level narratives with mobile platform dynamics.

mod.io

Seed Round in 2020
mod.io is a cross-platform mod support and user-generated content service that enables game studios to harness community creativity across PC, console, and mobile. Since its 2019 launch, it has been adopted by more than 50 games and supports a large creator community, with about 400,000 daily users, 600,000 pieces of content, and over 100 million mods installed. The platform provides an accessible API and marketplace to create, manage, and distribute mods and other user-generated content across platforms and stores, helping developers build long-term engagement and creator ecosystems.

Potato Play

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Potato Play is a Singapore-based mobile game publisher and platform developer that aims to turn mobile titles from Asia into worldwide hits through data-driven publishing. The company publishes games such as Merge Quest, Pocket Racing, and Crossing Gaps and provides a platform to support game development across genres, including puzzles, action, and racing.

FunCraft

Seed Round in 2020
FunCraft Inc., established in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing mobile games designed to become daily rituals for its players. The company creates casual games with engaging progression systems, live events, and social interaction features, aiming to provide entertainment and foster friendly competition among users.

Flowstate Games

Seed Round in 2020
Flowstate Games is a mobile game studio located in Helsinki, Finland, focused on developing engaging mobile games for entertainment purposes. The studio utilizes blockchain technology to enhance its gaming offerings, creating arcade-style experiences that are both accessible and endlessly replayable. This innovative approach aims to provide customers with enjoyable and immersive mobile gaming experiences.
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