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.

Harri Manninen

Founding Partner

Henric Suuronen

Founding Partner

Past deals in Mobile Apps

Alinea

Series A in 2025
Alinea is a mobile investing platform designed to empower users by simplifying the investment process. It enables individuals to invest in stocks, exchange-traded funds, and cryptocurrencies through curated playlists that help diversify portfolios based on personal interests and themes. The platform automates investing with features like recurring contributions and provides relevant insights to assist users in making informed financial decisions. Additionally, Alinea incorporates a social aspect, allowing users to share and view investment strategies within a community. Targeting those new to investing or seeking a straightforward approach to personal finance, Alinea focuses on creating a self-directed investment service that emphasizes thematic and goal-based investing.

FERASET

Seed Round in 2025
FERASET is a mobile application powered by artificial intelligence that focuses on categories like utility, design, video, music, and photography.

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.

Bible Chat

Series A in 2025
Bible Chat is a mobile application that provides spiritual guidance specifically for Christian users. It features an AI platform that enhances the Bible study experience by allowing users to seek answers to their faith-related questions, receive prayers, engage in games, and explore biblical texts. The application aims to improve Bible studies and foster a sense of community within the church, while also providing comfort and educational resources to those seeking spiritual connection. Through its interactive features, Bible Chat serves as a tool for users to deepen their understanding of faith and build relationships within their religious communities.

Cypher Games

Seed Round in 2024
Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company that specializes in developing casual and mobile puzzle games. The company is dedicated to creating innovative gaming experiences, particularly in the realm of mobile merge games. By focusing on the next generation of gaming, Cypher Games aims to shape the future of mobile entertainment through collaboration with its team, investors, and industry partners. The company's mission is to lead the market in casual gaming, aspiring to build a successful global presence.

Odeeo

Seed Round in 2024
Odeeo operates an innovative audio advertisement platform designed to enhance the gaming experience while providing monetization opportunities for game developers and brands. By integrating contextual audio ads into mobile games, Odeeo allows developers to utilize previously untapped in-game space, boosting ad revenue without compromising player retention. The platform also offers audio data analysis, enabling advertisers to gather insights and effectively target users. This approach creates a unique environment where brands can engage with an attentive audience at scale, while gamers enjoy a seamless gaming experience free from disruptive full-screen ads. Odeeo's solution effectively resonates with the casual gaming community, fostering a balance between monetization and user enjoyment.

Social First

Seed Round in 2024
Social First is a gaming studio specializing in cross-platform multiplayer online games that foster social connections among players. With significant experience in developing user-generated content (UGC) and digital asset trading, the studio has achieved notable results through early market testing of its current title, which reflects years of accumulated insights. The games are designed to promote highly social experiences and player-driven economies, aiming to engage users for the long term. Social First's recent pre-alpha testing demonstrated strong player engagement and retention, indicating a solid foundation for future growth. Backed by Play Ventures, the studio's team of veterans is focused on scaling its operations with a validated growth strategy that does not rely on traditional advertising methods. Their goal is to establish a $1 billion-plus enterprise in the gaming industry.

Benjamin

Seed Round in 2024
Benjamin is the holding company for the Benjamin App, a cash-rewards platform that allows consumers, merchants, and gamers to earn cash by completing daily tasks, playing casual games, viewing content and advertisements, and making card purchases with cash back. The application operates within the cashback, gaming, and digital advertising industries. Benjamin focuses on creating user-friendly experiences that facilitate engagement and reward participation.

Kek Entertainment

Seed Round in 2023
Kek Entertainment is a game studio that specializes in developing multiplayer mobile games, with a particular focus on action titles. The company aims to create engaging and competitive gaming experiences that allow players to team up and enjoy a variety of games with friends. By emphasizing cross-platform compatibility, Kek Entertainment seeks to carve out a significant niche in the fast-evolving landscape of mobile entertainment, catering to the growing demand for interactive and social gaming experiences.

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.

Omada

Seed Round in 2023
Omada is a gaming company that develops sports base mobile games for users.

Redemption Games

Seed Round in 2023
Redemption Games, Inc. is a mobile gaming company based in Carlsbad, California, founded in 2015. The company specializes in the development and publishing of casual games for mobile devices, offering a wide selection of titles in the app store. Among its notable creations are popular games like Cookie Jam and Sweet Escapes, which are designed to provide entertainment and engage users through interactive gameplay. Redemption Games focuses on the careful design and marketing of its games, operating them as live services to enhance user experience and maintain popularity in a competitive market.

Jarvi Games

Seed Round in 2022
Jarvi Games is a mobile game development studio founded in 2021 in Lakatamia, Nicosia. The company focuses on creating engaging open-world massively multiplayer online (MMO) action games for mobile devices. With a team of enthusiastic individuals, Jarvi Games aims to deliver an exceptional gaming experience that includes diverse gameplay elements such as sports cars, helicopters, private jets, boats, and a wide range of firearms. By providing a rich and immersive environment, Jarvi Games seeks to enhance the enjoyment of multiplayer gaming for its users.

Ahead App

Venture Round in 2022
Master your emotions in 5 minutes a day. Ahead is a personalized pocket coach that provides bite-sized, science-driven tools to boost emotional intelligence. Think of it as a pocket cheerleader towards a better, more fulfilling, clearer-minded way of life. Most of us continuously set goals for our life - for our career, our relationships, our health. Yet, it’s damn hard to turn those goals into reality! We know - we’ve been there ourselves. That’s why we know there’s a way to make it work. And that’s what aHead is all about! Get early access: ahead-app.com

Parallelz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Parallelz is a technology company that specializes in creating a platform that allows users to instantly create and share innovative versions of popular mobile games. The company focuses on enhancing human creativity and improving the internet experience for all. By developing a unique computing architecture, Parallelz offers a solution that enables developers to easily transform their existing native mobile applications into fully native web applications without requiring modifications or additional software development kits. This approach facilitates new methods for delivering, distributing, and discovering mobile applications, thereby broadening accessibility and engagement in the digital space.

Odeeo

Seed Round in 2022
Odeeo operates an innovative audio advertisement platform designed to enhance the gaming experience while providing monetization opportunities for game developers and brands. By integrating contextual audio ads into mobile games, Odeeo allows developers to utilize previously untapped in-game space, boosting ad revenue without compromising player retention. The platform also offers audio data analysis, enabling advertisers to gather insights and effectively target users. This approach creates a unique environment where brands can engage with an attentive audience at scale, while gamers enjoy a seamless gaming experience free from disruptive full-screen ads. Odeeo's solution effectively resonates with the casual gaming community, fostering a balance between monetization and user enjoyment.

Cypher Games

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company that specializes in developing casual and mobile puzzle games. The company is dedicated to creating innovative gaming experiences, particularly in the realm of mobile merge games. By focusing on the next generation of gaming, Cypher Games aims to shape the future of mobile entertainment through collaboration with its team, investors, and industry partners. The company's mission is to lead the market in casual gaming, aspiring to build a successful global presence.

Potato Play

Seed Round in 2022
Potato Play Pte. Ltd., established in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, is a mobile game publisher. It specializes in transforming Asian mobile games into global successes through data-driven publishing strategies. The company offers a range of games, including Merge Quest, Pocket Racing, and Crossing Gaps, spanning various genres such as puzzles, action, and racing. Led by a team with over 50 years of collective experience from renowned gaming companies, Potato Play aims to provide engaging and entertaining mobile gaming experiences worldwide.

Social First

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Social First is a gaming studio specializing in cross-platform multiplayer online games that foster social connections among players. With significant experience in developing user-generated content (UGC) and digital asset trading, the studio has achieved notable results through early market testing of its current title, which reflects years of accumulated insights. The games are designed to promote highly social experiences and player-driven economies, aiming to engage users for the long term. Social First's recent pre-alpha testing demonstrated strong player engagement and retention, indicating a solid foundation for future growth. Backed by Play Ventures, the studio's team of veterans is focused on scaling its operations with a validated growth strategy that does not rely on traditional advertising methods. Their goal is to establish a $1 billion-plus enterprise in the gaming industry.

Mod.io

Series A in 2021
Mod.io is a cross-platform service that facilitates mod support and user-generated content (UGC) for video games, established by the team behind ModDB. Launched in 2019, it allows game studios to enhance community engagement on PC, console, and mobile platforms. The service has been adopted by over 50 games, attracting around 400,000 daily users who have collectively produced 600,000 pieces of content, resulting in more than 100 million mods installed. Mod.io provides an automated and scalable solution for developers to integrate UGC, fostering long-term user engagement and supporting creator economies. Its platform features a clientless application programming interface that streamlines the creation and sharing of modifications across various platforms and stores, helping to maintain a continuous flow of fresh content.

Kek Entertainment

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kek Entertainment is a game studio that specializes in developing multiplayer mobile games, with a particular focus on action titles. The company aims to create engaging and competitive gaming experiences that allow players to team up and enjoy a variety of games with friends. By emphasizing cross-platform compatibility, Kek Entertainment seeks to carve out a significant niche in the fast-evolving landscape of mobile entertainment, catering to the growing demand for interactive and social gaming experiences.

Original Games

Seed Round in 2021
Original Games is a mobile game developer headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, established in 2019. The company focuses on creating engaging mobile games across various themes, collaborating with developers from different countries to enhance its offerings. Original Games aims to provide players with enjoyable experiences through its casual puzzle games, which are designed for easy access and download on smartphones.

Odeeo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Odeeo operates an innovative audio advertisement platform designed to enhance the gaming experience while providing monetization opportunities for game developers and brands. By integrating contextual audio ads into mobile games, Odeeo allows developers to utilize previously untapped in-game space, boosting ad revenue without compromising player retention. The platform also offers audio data analysis, enabling advertisers to gather insights and effectively target users. This approach creates a unique environment where brands can engage with an attentive audience at scale, while gamers enjoy a seamless gaming experience free from disruptive full-screen ads. Odeeo's solution effectively resonates with the casual gaming community, fostering a balance between monetization and user enjoyment.

Colossi Games

Seed Round in 2021
Colossi Games Ltd, founded in 2020 and based in Limassol, Cyprus, specializes in designing and developing mobile games, particularly in the action role-playing genre. The company was established by a team of industry veterans from notable Russian gaming firms, including Nexters and Game Insight. Colossi Games aims to create genre-defining experiences by integrating socially engaging elements with familiar mechanics to attract a midcore audience. By focusing on action and engaging gameplay, the company seeks to entertain and captivate players through its innovative mobile offerings.

Mod.io

Seed Round in 2020
Mod.io is a cross-platform service that facilitates mod support and user-generated content (UGC) for video games, established by the team behind ModDB. Launched in 2019, it allows game studios to enhance community engagement on PC, console, and mobile platforms. The service has been adopted by over 50 games, attracting around 400,000 daily users who have collectively produced 600,000 pieces of content, resulting in more than 100 million mods installed. Mod.io provides an automated and scalable solution for developers to integrate UGC, fostering long-term user engagement and supporting creator economies. Its platform features a clientless application programming interface that streamlines the creation and sharing of modifications across various platforms and stores, helping to maintain a continuous flow of fresh content.

Bigger Games

Seed Round in 2020
Bigger Games is a mobile gaming company founded in 2019, dedicated to developing casual games that appeal to a broad audience. The company's online gaming platform features a diverse selection of entertaining games available for download from various application stores. By focusing on creating engaging and accessible gaming experiences, Bigger Games aims to attract players who enjoy regular gameplay, allowing them to connect and enjoy games with their friends.

Potato Play

Seed Round in 2020
Potato Play Pte. Ltd., established in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, is a mobile game publisher. It specializes in transforming Asian mobile games into global successes through data-driven publishing strategies. The company offers a range of games, including Merge Quest, Pocket Racing, and Crossing Gaps, spanning various genres such as puzzles, action, and racing. Led by a team with over 50 years of collective experience from renowned gaming companies, Potato Play aims to provide engaging and entertaining mobile gaming experiences worldwide.

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.

Bright Star Studios

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Bright Star Studios is an independent game development company located in Swatar, Malta, specializing in the creation of multiplayer online video games. The studio focuses on developing original MMO game franchises using its proprietary engine and aims to innovate the MMORPG landscape across platforms, including PC, mobile, and browsers. Its flagship title, Ember Sword, represents a modern approach to gaming, emphasizing a player-owned economy and community engagement. By promoting competitive gameplay and instant playability, Bright Star Studios seeks to foster a gaming environment that prioritizes skill and user involvement, challenging traditional business models in the industry.

Reworks

Venture Round in 2020
Reworks publishes mobile apps that combine lifestyle content and social gaming, such as Redecor, which blends interior home design with social gaming.

StarBerry Games

Seed Round in 2020
StarBerry Games GmbH is a mobile game developer and publisher based in Berlin, Germany, established in 2017. The company focuses on creating genre-leading games that blend innovative concepts with familiar elements to deliver unique gameplay experiences. By targeting a broad audience, StarBerry Games aims to craft engaging and outstanding games that resonate with players.

Mod.io

Seed Round in 2020
Mod.io is a cross-platform service that facilitates mod support and user-generated content (UGC) for video games, established by the team behind ModDB. Launched in 2019, it allows game studios to enhance community engagement on PC, console, and mobile platforms. The service has been adopted by over 50 games, attracting around 400,000 daily users who have collectively produced 600,000 pieces of content, resulting in more than 100 million mods installed. Mod.io provides an automated and scalable solution for developers to integrate UGC, fostering long-term user engagement and supporting creator economies. Its platform features a clientless application programming interface that streamlines the creation and sharing of modifications across various platforms and stores, helping to maintain a continuous flow of fresh content.

Potato Play

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Potato Play Pte. Ltd., established in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, is a mobile game publisher. It specializes in transforming Asian mobile games into global successes through data-driven publishing strategies. The company offers a range of games, including Merge Quest, Pocket Racing, and Crossing Gaps, spanning various genres such as puzzles, action, and racing. Led by a team with over 50 years of collective experience from renowned gaming companies, Potato Play aims to provide engaging and entertaining mobile gaming experiences worldwide.

FunCraft

Seed Round in 2020
FunCraft Inc., founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in developing mobile games aimed at becoming integral parts of players' daily routines. The company focuses on creating engaging casual games that emphasize entertainment, social interaction, and user progression. By offering friendly word games and immersive gaming experiences, FunCraft strives to cultivate a sense of community among players, making their gaming worlds enjoyable and inviting.

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 offerings, creating arcade-style games that are both accessible and infinitely replayable. This approach allows players to enjoy a diverse range of mobile gaming experiences, emphasizing user engagement and satisfaction.

Dataseat (now part of Verve Group)

Seed Round in 2020
Dataseat Ltd is a technology company based in London, United Kingdom, founded in 2018. It specializes in software solutions for managing user acquisition and retargeting campaigns. The company offers a custom demand-side platform that enables app developers to buy advertising inventory directly from the source, as well as a data management platform for creating user segments and analytics. By providing these tools, Dataseat empowers brands to gain full control and transparency over their media buying processes, minimizing risks associated with app download and attribution fraud. This approach allows clients to effectively manage their campaigns without the interference of third-party networks, ensuring that their user data is handled securely and efficiently.

Redhill Games

Venture Round in 2019
Redhill Games Ltd. is a Helsinki-based game development studio established in 2018, focusing on creating accessible and high-quality free-to-play PC games. Founded by former Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne in collaboration with industry veterans from Wargaming and Remedy, the company specializes in multiplayer tactical shooter games. Redhill Games aims to provide engaging team-based gaming experiences for a global audience, emphasizing both quality and accessibility in their offerings.

Reworks

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Reworks publishes mobile apps that combine lifestyle content and social gaming, such as Redecor, which blends interior home design with social gaming.
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