Turkish cell video games studio Greater Video games introduced as we speak that it has raised $25 million in its Sequence A funding spherical, which it’s going to put in direction of rising its portfolio of video games. Goodwater Capital led the spherical, with Arcadia Gaming Companions and current traders Index Ventures and Play Ventures additionally taking part. Coddy Johnson, former Activision president and present associate at Goodwater Capital, joins Greater’s board of administrators. The studio plans to make use of the funding to proceed constructing its staff and scaling its newest title, Kitchen Masters, for a worldwide viewers.
The Istanbul-based staff launched in 2019 into the burgeoning Turkish gaming scene, and has specialised in informal puzzle video games. Its most up-to-date title, Kitchen Masters, is a match-3 title which Greater experiences exhibits sturdy early retention and engagement. With the Sequence A funding, Greater plans to launch Kitchen Masters to different markets, together with the U.S., alongside additional refining the gameplay.
GamesBeat spoke with Hakan Ulvan, Greater Video games CEO and co-founder, concerning the fundraise, and the studio’s imaginative and prescient for the longer term. He mentioned, “Our perception is easy however daring: enjoyable is a sense, not a characteristic. Greater Video games exists to create emotionally impactful experiences: video games the place each swipe, faucet, and determination feels significant. We obsess over emotional move, the small bursts of mastery, shock, and pleasure that maintain gamers engaged. Our mission is to redefine enjoyable for the cell era, and we do this by crafting intuitive video games the place each motion issues and each second delights.”
Greater Video games and its cell market potential
Hakan mentioned of the funding: “We weren’t simply in search of capital, we needed individuals who imagine within the emotional energy of video games and the potential of Turkey as a worldwide inventive hub… Welcoming Arcadia’s founder, Akın Babayiğit, who additionally co-founded Tripledot Studios, which is now a prime 5 impartial cell video games studio by income globally after their current acquisition of Applovin’s recreation studios portfolio, as an investor was a pure subsequent step, as Akın has supported us for the reason that very starting, and we’re thrilled to make that relationship official now.”
Babayiğit mentioned in a press release, “Hakan and the Greater staff embody all of the qualities that make the Turkish video games ecosystem what it’s as we speak: Scary good, tremendous hungry, unwilling to settle or compromise, and extremely inventive and analytical. I’ve had the pleasure of being on this journey with Hakan from the start, and watching him evolve into the really distinctive founder (and particular person) he’s as we speak. The sky is the restrict for the entire staff, and I can’t wait to see what they are going to obtain.
Concerning the longer term, Hakan emphasised that Kitchen Masters is the studio’s major precedence in the mean time, alongside rising its advertising staff over the following 12-24 months. “We’re additionally actually enthusiastic about what this funding unlocks: the power to check and study what brings pleasure to gamers throughout completely different international locations. As information nerds at coronary heart, scaling our person acquisition efforts and studying from participant habits in additional markets is one thing we really thrive on. With the appropriate product, the appropriate individuals, and the appropriate focus, we’re working to show Kitchen Masters into not only a profitable recreation, however a recreation that brings the enjoyment on the core of enjoying.”
