Gaming startup ecosystem
The European gaming industry, led by Sweden, Finland, and Poland, is a global powerhouse. From mobile gaming to AAA studios, the region benefits from deep creative talent, strong engineering culture, and established publishing infrastructure. We track 90 organisations in this sector across 6+ countries.
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Outfit7
Outfit7 is the Slovenian-born mobile entertainment studio behind the Talking Tom and Friends franchise, which has become one of the most downloaded mobile IPs in the world and a textbook example of a European consumer software company achieving escape velocity into the US and Asian markets without relocating its engineering base out of Ljubljana. Founded in 2009 by Samo and Iza Login, the studio combined a viral AR-era animal avatar concept with disciplined live-ops, mobile advertising, and cross-promotion to drive billions of downloads, and in 2017 sold to China's Zhejiang Jinke Entertainment in one of the largest cash exits ever achieved by a Slovenian tech company. Today Outfit7 remains the anchor of Slovenia's consumer gaming cluster, running the Talking Tom & Friends universe across games, TV series, and licensed merchandise, and continuing to ship new free-to-play titles from its Ljubljana, Limassol, and London offices.
Peak Games
Peak Games was an Istanbul-based mobile gaming company that built globally successful casual puzzle games including Toon Blast and Toy Blast, which attracted hundreds of millions of downloads. The company was acquired by Zynga in 2020 for $1.8 billion, marking one of the largest exits in Turkish and European gaming history. Founded in 2010 by Sidar Sahin, Peak Games demonstrated that world-class mobile gaming studios could emerge from Turkey, and its success helped catalyze a wave of gaming entrepreneurship in Istanbul. The acquisition validated the depth of Turkish mobile gaming talent and design expertise on the global stage.
PG Connects Barcelona 2026
A global games-industry conference for 1,000+ professionals, with 17 tracks, 100+ speakers, indie showcases, and investor matchmaking. Built for gaming startups, with structured pitching to publishers and investors plus a dedicated indie and career programme.
PG Connects Nordics 2026
An international games-industry B2B conference within Finnish Games Week, connecting Nordic indies, developers, publishers, and investors, with indie pitch competitions and investor matchmaking.
PGC Summit Malmö 2026
Pocket Gamer Connects' first dedicated Sweden event, a focused two-day games-industry networking and dealmaking conference with an indie developer pitch competition.
Plug and Play Cyprus
Plug and Play Cyprus is the first Cyprus location of Plug and Play, the Silicon Valley-based global innovation platform, launched in Limassol in April 2026. The programme is co-funded by the Republic of Cyprus through the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy and the Research and Innovation Foundation. It plans to run six cycles of incubation and acceleration targeting fintech, regtech, gaming, and shipping and energy, aiming to support around 60 startups and create approximately 500 jobs. Corporate partners include ASBIS, Tototheo, Mastercard, and ECOMMBX.
Re-Pie Asset Management
Re-Pie is Turkey's first and largest alternative portfolio management company, established in 2015 under a Capital Markets Board licence and managing assets worth over 73.5 billion TL across 41 venture capital, 36 real estate, and 13 securities investment funds. Its venture capital arm backs Seed to Series A technology companies with cheques of $1M–$10M, with a notable portfolio including Getir, Hepsiburada, ikas, Modanisa, Colendi, and Ace Games. Re-Pie combines financial structuring expertise from its broader asset management platform with active strategic and operational support for portfolio companies. The firm is headquartered in Istanbul and is regulated by Turkey's CMB.
Revo Capital
Revo Capital is Turkey's largest technology-focused venture capital firm, founded in 2013 by Cenk Bayrakdar and Berkin Toktaş, having raised over $250M across three funds. Fund II closed at a landmark €90M in 2021 — oversubscribed with backing from IFC, EBRD, EIF, DEG, and the Turkish Development and Investment Bank — and Fund III reached an $86M first close in 2024 targeting over $100M. The firm has invested in 48 startups across Turkey, Eastern Europe, and the Baltics, achieving 18 exits and producing unicorns Getir and Builder.ai; portfolio companies have attracted $3.5B in follow-on capital between 2021 and 2025. Revo concentrates on early-stage B2B and B2C ventures in fintech, SaaS, cybersecurity, health tech, AI, and gaming.
Reykjavik Game Summit 2026
A full-day game-industry summit at Fantasía in Reykjavík, now in its second year, organised by Game Makers Iceland. Talks from Icelandic and international speakers for game designers, developers, and creative leaders — the anchor event for Iceland's notable gamedev cluster.
Rob Whitehead
Co-founder and former CTO/CPO of Improbable, where he led development of the SpatialOS distributed-simulation engine. He met co-founder Herman Narula at the University of Cambridge.
Robert Lewandowski
Better known as a football superstar, Robert has also become an active startup investor in recent years. Through his firm RL9 Investments, he provides funding and global visibility to Polish startups. For instance, he joined Dawid Urban in backing Samurai Labs (AI anti-bullying platform) in 2020. He’s also invested in health tech and games (e.g. Movie Games). Associated startups: Samurai Labs, Movie Games, Zeny (fintech), and Stor9 (marketing) among others.
Roosh Ventures
Roosh Ventures is an entrepreneur-led Ukrainian VC fund founded in 2020 by Den Dmytrenko (co-founder of Reface and the AI HOUSE community) and Serhiy Tokarev, an AI entrepreneur and investor with 20+ years of experience. Operating with $40M AUM and 40+ portfolio companies, the fund takes a co-investment approach and focuses on pre-seed through Series A deals in enterprise SaaS, fintech, gaming, and AI across EU and US markets. Notable portfolio companies include Deel ($12B valuation), Oura, and Pipe; the fund's most recent disclosed investment was in Tower in March 2026. Despite the ongoing war, Roosh maintains its Kyiv headquarters and Ukrainian identity.
Sacha Dragic
Founder and majority owner of Superbet (operating as Super), a technology-driven sports-betting and gaming group he started in Romania in 2008 that has since expanded across Europe and into Latin America. He backs Romanian technology and entrepreneurship initiatives through the group and its ventures.
SiGMA Europe 2026
The world's largest iGaming and emerging tech expo, held at the Malta Maritime Hub (MFCC). Attracts 25,000+ attendees, 800+ sponsors and exhibitors covering gaming, blockchain, AI, and fintech. Malta's regulatory framework for digital assets makes this a key event for Web3 and gaming startups. Tickets from EUR 300.
Slovenia Games Conference 2026
The Slovenian games industry's annual conference, run by the Slovenia Games Association at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana, covering game design, writing, production and the business of shipping games from a small market. DATE UNCONFIRMED: as of September 2026 sgc.si advertises only a 20 February 2027 edition and shows nothing on the October 2026 date recorded here, so treat the dates below as unverified until the organisers publish them.
SMOK Ventures
SMOK Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm bridging Silicon Valley and Central and Eastern Europe, investing pre-seed and seed capital into software and gaming startups founded by CEE teams, especially in Poland. Backed by US and local investors, it brings a Valley-style approach and network to the region and typically leads first institutional rounds.
Sorare
Sorare is a Paris-based fantasy sports and digital collectibles platform founded in 2018 by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort. The platform lets users collect officially licensed digital player cards and compete in fantasy football, basketball, and baseball leagues. Sorare holds partnerships with over 300 sports organizations including the Premier League, NBA, MLB, and LaLiga. The company raised $680 million in its Series B led by SoftBank in 2021, reaching a valuation of $4.3 billion. Despite the broader NFT market downturn, Sorare has maintained its position by focusing on gaming utility rather than pure speculation. It operates from Paris with a major commercial office in London serving UK sports partnerships.
SpielFabrique
Founded 2016. Accelerator for the video game industry connecting German and French hubs; provides workshops, industry mentoring, and investor access. Notable studios: Burning Glass Creative, HandyGames. Support: game-specific mentorship, networking, funding access. Scope: Regional.
Spyke Games
Spyke Games is an Istanbul-based mobile gaming studio that raised one of the largest seed rounds in European gaming history — roughly USD 55 million in 2022, led by Griffin Gaming Partners, Index Ventures, and Makers Fund — on the strength of its founding team's track record in casual and social gaming. The studio focuses on multiplayer social casual titles with deep live-ops loops and player-to-player interaction as a retention driver, and is part of the generation of second-wave Turkish mobile studios (alongside Dream Games and Spyke Labs alumni) trying to turn the country's engineering depth and low-cost production into a durable mobile entertainment cluster. For the directory, Spyke represents the next chapter of Turkish mobile gaming following the Peak Games / Zynga exit, and a data point on how extensively Turkish founders have now captured international venture appetite for casual gaming.
Steel Media
Steel Media Ltd is a Bath-based games-industry media and events company, part of Enthusiast Gaming, that publishes PocketGamer.biz and runs the Pocket Gamer Connects conference series. PGC events gather mobile and games developers, publishers, platform holders and investors in cities including Helsinki, Barcelona, Malmo, London and Toronto, each pairing a multi-track conference with a dealmaking floor and an indie showcase.
