Top 10 Gaming Startups by Funding Raised in 2025

• Despite a cautious VC market, several traditional gaming startups secured significant funding in 2025.
• Investors favored scalable game studios and tools that improve development, monetization, and live operations.
• Emerging regions like Turkey, MENA, and India attracted strong interest due to cost efficiency and talent depth.

Venture capital may have slowed down in gaming compared to its pandemic-era highs, but 2025 was far from a write-off. Instead of chasing blockbuster bets or speculative hype, investors quietly shifted their focus toward studios and startups that could prove efficiency, scalability, and long-term viability. The result was a year defined less by eye-watering mega-rounds and more by targeted capital flowing into companies building the backbone of modern game development.

Across mobile, PC, and console ecosystems, funding gravitated toward traditional game studios with repeatable production pipelines and toward technology companies that focus on monetization control, live-service infrastructure, analytics, and AI-assisted development. From Turkey’s fast-growing mobile scene to emerging PC and console studios in the Middle East and tooling startups in the U.S. and India, 2025 revealed where investor confidence still exists in gaming. Here is a look at the top 10 gaming startups by funding raised in 2025. 

10. Starvania Studios - $1.1M Funding Round 

Saudi Arabia-based Starvania Studios raised $1.1 million in 2025 to expand development of narrative-driven PC and console games inspired by regional mythology. While smaller in size, the round highlights increasing support for premium game development in the Middle East, particularly for culturally distinctive IP targeting global audiences.

9. GameRamp - $5.4M Pre-Seed 

GameRamp raised $5.4M in pre-seed funding led by BITKRAFT Ventures. The India-origin startup is building an AI-driven publishing and analytics operating system designed to help mobile game developers optimize user acquisition, monetization, and live-ops decisions. The round reflects growing interest in tooling that improves decision-making rather than content creation itself.

8. Liminal Experiences - $5.8M Seed 

Liminal Experiences raised $5.8M in seed funding in 2025 with backing from BITKRAFT Ventures, Riot Games, and OTK Media Group. The startup focuses on AI-assisted tools that enable user-generated content within games, aiming to lower barriers for creators while extending player engagement. Investors see UGC as a long-term driver of retention and monetization across multiple genres.

7. Pragma - $12.75M Funding Round

Pragma, a developer of a backend gaming engine designed to help studios scale multiplayer games quickly and reliably, raised $12.75M in venture funding from investors including Square Enix Holdings in 2025. Pragma’s technology helps developers manage server infrastructure, matchmaking, and real-time game services, reflecting sustained investor interest in core tooling that supports game production and live-service operations.

6. Beamable - $13.5M Series A

Beamable raised $13.5M, led by BITKRAFT Ventures, making it one of the biggest gaming startup funding rounds of 2025. The company builds backend infrastructure for live-service games, including tools for multiplayer services, content updates, and live operations management. Beamable’s funding underscores sustained demand for middleware that helps studios scale live games without building costly proprietary backend systems.

5. SuperGaming - $15M Funding Round 

Pune-based SuperGaming raised $15M in a 2025 funding round led by existing investor Skycatcher Capital with participation from Steadview Capital, becoming one of India’s top-funded gaming startups. The company, which develops mobile and PC titles with competitive and live-ops elements, attracted capital on the strength of its growing portfolio and its ability to foster community engagement in India’s increasingly active gaming market.

4. Bigger Games - $25M Series A

Bigger Games was one of the top gaming startups to receive funding in 2025. It raised $25M in Series A funding in 2025. Like Grand Games, the Istanbul-based studio operates in the casual and puzzle segment, reinforcing Turkey’s status as a key hub for venture-backed mobile game studios. Investors highlighted the company’s ability to produce hit titles with relatively lean teams as a major draw in a capital-constrained market.

3. GameSett - $27M Funding Round

GameSett secured $27M in funding to build AI-powered agents that assist studios with game development, testing, and live operations. Rather than creating games itself, GameSett positions its platform as an infrastructure that reduces development time and operational overhead for existing studios. The round reflects growing investor interest in tools that lower production risk across the industry.

2. Grand Games - $30M Series A 

Istanbul-based Grand Games secured $30M in Series A funding in 2025. The studio focuses on casual and puzzle mobile games and represents a broader trend of venture capital flowing into Turkey’s cost-efficient mobile gaming ecosystem. Investors cited the studio’s strong early traction and scalable development model as key reasons for the round.

1. Appcharge - $58M Series B 

Appcharge was one of the top gaming startups of 2025. According to an official report by the company, it raised $58M in a Series B round in early 2025, making it the largest gaming-related funding round of the year. The Israel-based startup provides direct-to-consumer monetization tools that allow mobile game publishers to sell digital goods outside traditional app stores while remaining compliant with platform policies. Investors backed Appcharge on the belief that publishers increasingly want more control over payments, player relationships, and margins without altering core gameplay experiences.

Gaming Startups Funding: Looking Ahead

Global gaming startup funding rounds in 2025 remained significantly lower than peak years, with investors becoming more selective. Capital moved primarily toward studios with proven pipelines and startups offering tangible improvements to development efficiency, monetization control, or live-service scalability. High-risk content bets were limited, while infrastructure and tooling continued to attract steady interest.

Traditional video game studios and core game-development technology companies accounted for the majority of notable funding rounds in 2025, while gaming technology companies focusing on monetization and AI also secured valuable deals. Emerging markets such as Turkey, the Middle East, and India continued to punch above their weight due to cost efficiency and talent availability. Overall, investors prioritized sustainability, scalability, and operational leverage over speculation, which highlights a more cautious approach to investing in the industry.