Gaming startups in Bengaluru

Sai Srinivas Kiran G & Shubham Malhotra

Founded 2018 (parent Galactus Funware Technology). India's flagship real-money / esports gaming platform with 60+ fantasy, card, casual and arcade games. Became India's 2nd gaming unicorn in 2021 at a ~$2.3B...

Saurabh Pandey & Akshay Dubey

Founded Aug 2020 by ex-Flipkart execs. Live social-gaming and entertainment platform built on Indian household games (Tambola, Chiriya Udd) plus creator-led live streaming. Raised $50M+ total across rounds f...

Afsar Ahmad & Govind Agarwal

Founded ~2017 by IIT-Kharagpur alumni. Bootstrapped maker of social board games Ludo STAR and Parchisi STAR with 200M+ downloads and 5M+ DAUs. Crossed $100M lifetime revenue (~$40M in 2021 alone); top market...

Prithvi Raj Singh, Deepak Singh Ahlawat & Sindhu Devi Jha

Founded 2017, debuted with RummyCulture. Bootstrapped and one of India's most profitable online skill-gaming companies (rummy, fantasy, casual), clocking 1B+ gameplays a year. Largely founder/friends-funded ...

(studio head; subsidiary of KRAFTON Inc., South Korea)

Indian arm of the BGMI / PUBG maker, building a Bengaluru-based first-party studio to ship India-first titles faster. KRAFTON has committed $150M+ to India's gaming ecosystem (and ~$50M/yr), made investments...

Manish Agarwal & Ishank Gupta

Founded 2022 by Nazara's ex-CEO Manish Agarwal. Web3 gaming venture that raised a $20M seed at a ~$150M valuation (led by Accel; Prosus, Courtside, Nexus, Nazara) and acquired/absorbed the gaming DAO IndiGG ...

Joseph Kim, Paul Leydon & Avinash Pandey

Bengaluru studio betting India can ship a world-class real-time mobile shooter, founded by ex-Sega/FunPlus/Machine Zone veterans. Raised a $2.8M seed (2021) then a $10M Series A (2022) led by Rainfall Ventur...

Mohit Rangaraju, Arpita Kapoor & Shilp Gupta

Founded 2013; casual mobile games studio that built 'Hello Play', billed as India's first real-time multiplayer social-gaming platform. Acquired by Flipkart in 2020 to power its gaming push — an early exampl...

Kumar Puspesh, Tanay Tayal, Ankit Jain & Dimpal Maisuriya

Founded 2013 by ex-Zynga colleagues; backed early by Tiger Global and Sequoia (~$15M). Maker of Teen Patti Gold, Ludo Club, Bingo and Baahubali: The Game. Acquired by Sweden's Stillfront Group in 2021 (~$90M...

Suraj Nalin, Preeti Reddy & Siddhanth Jain

Founded 2014; a leading global developer of free-to-play word games (Daily Themed Crossword, Word Trip, etc.) with 75M+ installs. Acquired by Sweden's Modern Times Group (MTG) in July 2021 for ~$360M after r...

Mahesh Khambadkone

Founded 2013; full-cycle game development and co-development studio (250+ staff) building for global publishers across mobile, console, AR/VR and game art. One of BLR's largest service/work-for-hire studios,...