Mech Mocha Game Studios is a Bengaluru-based mobile gaming startup focused on vernacular, conversation-driven social games. Its flagship product HelloLudo is a digital mobile version of Ludo built around in-game conversations. The company plans to use new funding to develop multiple vernacular gaming products initially targeting Hindi speakers and later expanding to other local languages. HelloLudo has surpassed 500,000 Android installs and the platform is generating roughly 15 million minutes of conversation per month. For FY 2017–18 the company reported a four-fold rise in gross revenues to Rs 60.96 lakh from Rs 13.94 lakh. Co-founder and CEO Arpita Kapoor said the business is closing the targeted sum soon and will deploy capital toward product development and expansion. Mech Mocha is an India-based mobile gaming firm that develops games for mobile devices. The company has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Accel Partners and Shunwei Capital. Existing investor Blume Ventures also participated in the latest round. The article does not disclose product details, user metrics, revenue, or specific future plans. No other financial terms or past-round amounts were reported. Mech Mocha is a mobile gaming studio that builds games for children (age 6–15), youngsters and homemakers in urban and semi-urban India. Its first title, Puppet Punch, reportedly hit 100,000 downloads in its first four days and the company says that game is seeing about $1,000 a day in transactions. The firm recently launched Chhota Bheem - Himalayan Adventure after acquiring exclusive rights tied to the movie. Mech Mocha plans to build a back-end platform with social and payment solutions and is working on an ethnographic intelligence framework to quickly localize games for different Indian regions. The company says it will go hyperlocal over time and targets 50 million active users in the next two years. Mech Mocha was launched in 2014 by Arpita Kapoor and Mohit Rangaraju; Kapoor is the CEO. Mech Mocha was founded by IIIT Gwalior graduates Arpita Kapoor and Mohit Rangaraju and focuses on character-led, colorful, fast-paced casual free-to-play games. The studio uses a distributed collaboration model of artists, sound designers and animators who work remotely and share in game profits, which the founders say enabled production at roughly one-fifth the normal cost. Its first title, Puppet Punch, is about to launch after positive traction in tester groups, with kids and teens identified as the target market. The development team for Puppet Punch has six collaborators and two employees. The studio has generated buzz at events in Amsterdam and Chartboost University, and Arpita received a prominent female developer award from the Casual Games Association. Mech Mocha participated in the iAccelerator batch and has raised angel funding to support its launch.

Total raised

$16M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Nov 2018