Sisu Game Ventures

1939 Games is a indie game development studio based in Reykjavik, Iceland. They are focused on WWII gaming experiences and are currently working on a digital collectible card game that goes by the name of KARDS. The game will draw familiar elements from the card game genre and fuse them with classic WWII gaming for an elegant, action packed and fun card game. 1939 Games was founded around the KARDS project in 2015 by former CCP veterans.

Core Loop Games engages in building the next generation of MMOs. Gameplay and social cooperation are the core of its mission. They want to reimagine how players cooperate on a large scale together. The company was founded by veterans from MachineZone, GREE, and Funzio. It is VC backed and building a remote team of engineers and artists.

Theorycraft Games operates as an independent game studio. Theorycrafting is an honor players reserve for the deepest games in the world. It’s what we do when a game is worthy of endless speculation and debate about how best to play.

Multiscription operates as a mobile gaming start-up. Multiscription introduces a scalable business model across multiple platforms and sectors.

Umbra empowers 3D graphics designers and engineers to create, optimize, share and view their designs in real-time on virtually any device. As the established gaming industry standard in graphics optimization for more than a decade, Umbra is now redefining rapid visualization for all industry ecosystems utilizing complex 3D models. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Umbra has offices in the US, EMEA, and APAC.

Lightheart is a new mobile game development studio based in Helsinki, Finland. Founded by veteran developers, the team is setting their sights on new goals - to minimize time-to-learning, to create truly scalable ways of development and empower decision-making based on data and craftsmanship. We’re on a mission not just to make great games but to level up the ways of making them.

Armada Interactive Oy develops mobile games. It develops born-mobile AAA, freemium, and real-time multiplayer games. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Network Next, Inc. provides Internet lane for online game developers and other interactive content. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Varjo Technologies develops headset capable of both virtual and augmented reality. It uses that phrase with two meanings in mind. For one thing, the company’s headset offers resolution in the center of the screen that is good enough to hide individual pixels. But the headset’s display also mimics how human vision works in general. The high-density displays occupies the center of the field of view in headset, and surrounds by lower-resolution displays at the left and right edges. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.

Thirdverse (formerly known as Yomuneco Inc) is engaged in Virtual Reality content and services planning, development, sales and management.

FuzzyBot is building genre-crossing games within imaginative worlds that spark excitement and creativity. Founded in 2020, FuzzyBot is a team of experienced and versatile industry veterans with AAA backgrounds from studios like Ubisoft, Bungie, and EA. Our development philosophy is around dreaming big, but building smart – maintaining a pragmatic, flexible, and down-to-earth approach focused on shipping games. We are focused on creating games that connect players across generations by creating universes of curiosity and excitement, combining the joy of creation with the thrill of AAA action.

Veteran developers making a new breed of mobile games

Core Loop Games engages in building the next generation of MMOs. Gameplay and social cooperation are the core of its mission. They want to reimagine how players cooperate on a large scale together. The company was founded by veterans from MachineZone, GREE, and Funzio. It is VC backed and building a remote team of engineers and artists.

Resolution Games is a games studio led by some of the top minds in the industry, forging a world-class catalog of titles that bring players into the richest VR and AR worlds possible.

Lightheart is a new mobile game development studio based in Helsinki, Finland. Founded by veteran developers, the team is setting their sights on new goals - to minimize time-to-learning, to create truly scalable ways of development and empower decision-making based on data and craftsmanship. We’re on a mission not just to make great games but to level up the ways of making them.

1939 Games is a indie game development studio based in Reykjavik, Iceland. They are focused on WWII gaming experiences and are currently working on a digital collectible card game that goes by the name of KARDS. The game will draw familiar elements from the card game genre and fuse them with classic WWII gaming for an elegant, action packed and fun card game. 1939 Games was founded around the KARDS project in 2015 by former CCP veterans.

NextMind SAS develops wearable non invasive brain sensing device that combines neural networks and neural signals from the brain which allows users to play games and control computers, mobile devices and VR and AR headsets using thoughts. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Paris, France.

Quicksave Interactive is a chat game platform developing fun gaming-based chatting applications. It is on a mission to define the emerging gaming platform on social messaging apps. Its chat game platform leverages technology to help in making messaging applications more interactive by offering multiple games. Quicksave Interactive was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.

Singa is the Spotify of karaoke for personal and commercial use. Access a catalog of 20 000+ songs to sing effortlessly anywhere, any time and with any platform. Easy to use is Singa’s main operating principle. You don’t need to buy a console, or a microphone, or even a DVD-player. Singa is platform agnostic. To use Singa, you’ve already got everything you need either in your pocket (mobile phone), on your table (PC) or in your living room (TV). * One account works on all devices, mobile, browser or Smart TV * Each user gets to test Singa for free before signing up to a Premium account * Singa works fluently with external accessories

Mainframe Industries is a Reykjavik, Iceland and Helsinki, Finland-based startup working on the development of an open world, social sandbox MMO for cloud gaming.The company will will work on an open-world, social sandbox MMO specifically designed for cloud gaming, with cross-platform play across mobile, PC, and TV. Mainframe believes that the promise of friction-free access from social networks and streaming platforms on the device of your choice will greatly expand the creative canvas for game developers.

Utopos Games develops video games. It builds strategy games, arcade action games, shooters, and others for PCs, consoles, and mobile, premium, and free-to-play. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hipfire Games (TechStars '18) is focused to open a new market in multiplayer gaming in Virtual Reality by allowing VR gamers to play with mobile gamers. The team comes from Supercell and Rovio background. Developing large scale multiplayer games for VR has been so far impossible with the limitations in available users. With Hipfire's technology platform and games VR users can now play with anyone who owns a mobile phone, including all of their friends. This opens the platform to be more social than ever before and lets developers to create larger games than ever before in VR.

Mainframe Industries is a Reykjavik, Iceland and Helsinki, Finland-based startup working on the development of an open world, social sandbox MMO for cloud gaming.The company will will work on an open-world, social sandbox MMO specifically designed for cloud gaming, with cross-platform play across mobile, PC, and TV. Mainframe believes that the promise of friction-free access from social networks and streaming platforms on the device of your choice will greatly expand the creative canvas for game developers.

Coherence develops a cloud-based open platform that enables game developers to create scalable and persistent virtual worlds and online connectivity. The company's platform creates an open, accessible, and democratized process for developing and playing connected games. Coherence was founded in 2018 and is based in Malmö, Sweden.

Dazzle Rocks Oy designs and develops social multiplayer mobile games. The company’s games include 7 legends and summer update. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Helsinki, Finland.

3rd Eye Studios is a collection technology, movie, TV and game industry veterans building atmospheric and sophisticated games, and groundbreaking technology & tools for game developers. Located in Helsinki and Shanghai, 3rd Eye Studios was founded in June 2016 by a group of game industry veterans, who previously worked in senior positions at companies like Remedy Entertainment, Unity Technologies, Bugbear Entertainment, RedLynx and Moon Studios.

Thirdverse, Inc. develops and operates virtual reality games. The company provides virtual reality content and services planning, development, sales and management. Thirdverse, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Shinjuku-ku, Japan.

Doppio SA develops and publishes cross platform and voice controlled games. It offers The Vortex, a voice controlled game playable with voice input on both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Doppio SA was founded in 2018 and is based in Porto, Portugal.

Vizor is an online platform that lets its users explore, create, and publish virtual reality on the web.

Superplus Games was founded 2015 and is based in the heart of Helsinki, Finland. Their hit game Hills of Steel has been downloaded over 50 million times and has received the Editors’ Choice badge from Google Play. They are seeing lots of untapped potential in mobile multiplayer games as most of the developers are focusing on highly competitive markets such as RTS, RPG and FPS. Their games however, will bring playful competition to casual games. The driving ambition they have is to create games people will love and continue to play for a long time, and to support that mission, their team is strongly data-driven in everything they do or decide not to do.

Resolution Games is a games studio led by some of the top minds in the industry, forging a world-class catalog of titles that bring players into the richest VR and AR worlds possible.

Exit Plan sp. z o.o. operates and develops computer games. The company is based in Poland.

Immersal Ltd. develops Immersal AR Cloud SDK, a visual positioning and mapping solution for markerless, persistent, battery-friendly, massively multi-user AR. It can be used for enabling immersive AR experiences, such as indoor navigation, product finding, multi-player AR games, ads — your imagination is the limit. Immersal is based in Helsinki, Finland, and currently employ a team of 10 AR gurus.

1939 Games is a indie game development studio based in Reykjavik, Iceland. They are focused on WWII gaming experiences and are currently working on a digital collectible card game that goes by the name of KARDS. The game will draw familiar elements from the card game genre and fuse them with classic WWII gaming for an elegant, action packed and fun card game. 1939 Games was founded around the KARDS project in 2015 by former CCP veterans.

Quicksave Interactive is a chat game platform developing fun gaming-based chatting applications. It is on a mission to define the emerging gaming platform on social messaging apps. Its chat game platform leverages technology to help in making messaging applications more interactive by offering multiple games. Quicksave Interactive was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.

Network Next, Inc. provides Internet lane for online game developers and other interactive content. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Santa Monica, California.