The ‘Why’ Behind Grand Games’ $30M Investment
We wrote about “Grand Games secures $30M Series A” last week.
Let’s talk about the How & Why.
Securing $30M just 9 months after its launch? 🦄
Folks, it’s something big.
The publisher behind Magic Sort made $4M+ in 6 months.
It’s among the largest Series A rounds for Turkish gaming startups.
Turkey’s Casual Mobile Gaming scene is booming. Or, it’s been booming 😅
Check out: Mobile Gaming World: Türkiye
- Dream Games raised $255 million in 2022.
- Peak Games was acquired by Zynga in 2020 for $1.8 billion.
- Spyke raised $50M last year and launched with $55 million.
- DoubleU Games Acquires Turkish Studio Paxie Games
- Azur Games, has acquired the hypercasual portfolio of Good Job Games.
- Agave Games’ $18M Series A at a valuation of around $100M last month.
- Cypher Games Secures 10M$ Investment to Accelerate Global Expansion.
- Tripledot Studios levels up with $116M round, now at $1.4 billion valuation.
The Start
Good Job Games is where the 3 founders of Grand Games got their start. Batuhan Çelebi, Mustafa Fırtına, and Mehmet Çalım were working together there when they came up with the idea.
A unique team-driven approach, contrasting with the founder-led decision-making.
‘The Grand Culture’ has become its “biggest separator” among gaming companies in Istanbul.
Inspired by Supercell, Grand Games emphasizes team autonomy and a culture of creativity, complemented by AI tools to streamline production.
THE GAME: Magic Sort
We were chatting with Jakub regarding the WHY. Let’s get his take on this:
“Magic Sort is an innovative sort puzzler, which tries to disrupt the whole Sort genre, driven mainly by Ad Revenue.
It applies the typical Royal match high production formula, together with some innovation regarding the core gameplay such as fail state monetization. Validated by the 30M$ raise.”
Color Sort Genre?
In December, Magic Sort got #7 in Revenue although it’s pretty new in the race.
Will dive deep into the data below.
Data Lovers Here
1M$ & 230K in last-30. How about the total?
3M$ out of 593K Installs.
Almost half of the total came from Last-30. It’s cooking! Can’t wait for the Jan & Feb data.
Downloads
Revenue
