Led · Seed · Jul 2026

Bold Games was formed by founders Ulas Mergen, Atakan Tuglu, Candas Demirel and Baris Incesu, who have prior experience at Bigger Games, Agave Games, Dream Games, ZeptoLab and Rollic. The studio focuses on creating casual and puzzle mobile games and is positioning Market Match as its debut title. Bold Games emphasizes combining strong execution with creative product thinking to build games that can retain players over years. The company plans to use the newly raised $6 million to expand its team and scale Market Match. No financial metrics, revenue figures, user counts or prior funding rounds were disclosed in the articles.

Led · Equity · Apr 2026

Chance Studios Inc. operates a superapp aimed at Pokémon TCG collectors that integrates marketing and sale of physical cards with a purpose-built digital platform for discovering, collecting, trading, and community engagement. The product offers instant liquidity, transparent transactions, and social features such as group chats and shared games to connect collectors. The company was founded and is led by Jun Park and Arvin Dabiri, alongside a team rooted in TCG culture. After launching an open beta, Chance recorded early traction including over $100,000 in trading volume in a single day within two weeks and has generated more than 500,000 Instagram views since November. The business emphasizes building a unified destination where collecting leads to connecting and positions authenticity and community as core differentiators. The recent $3.2M funding round co-led by Makers Fund and Hashed provides fresh capital to support the company's growth and product development.

Participated · Equity · Apr 2026

Packz operates a gamified collectibles marketplace that lets thousands of users open digital packs daily to pull rare trading cards which can be shipped to collectors or sold back instantly. In its first six months since selling its first pack, Packz reported approximately $8.1M in packs opened in the most recent month, growing 76% month-over-month, and has delivered thousands of cards. The company is a small, fully in-person team based in NYC led by founders Rahul Khatti and Balazs. Packz is scaling operations and hiring across engineering and design, offering base salaries up to $300K plus meaningful equity. Public statements emphasize rapid user and revenue growth but do not disclose profitability, historical funding rounds, or detailed financials.

Participated · Series A · Mar 2026

Highlight builds a shared team memory and proactive command center that captures, models, and retrieves high-fidelity context across tools like Slack, Zoom, Linear, and Figma in real time. The platform combines user-controlled capture with a unified memory engine to synthesize meetings, decisions, ownership, and follow-up actions, and can draft follow-ups, create tasks, and sync documentation across systems. Highlight positions itself as an operating layer above apps to reduce coordination overhead and preserve institutional context as teams scale or roles change. The company announced a $40 million Series A to fund expansion and product work and appointed Sergei Sorokin, formerly VP of Product at Discord, as CEO. With the new capital, Highlight plans to double headcount and hire engineers, operators, and marketers in San Francisco to accelerate product development and go-to-market execution.

Led · Seed · Mar 2026

Cheer Games is developing casual puzzle games designed to become durable, scalable franchises on mobile platforms. The founding team—CEO Emre Gercel, CPO Berkay Ozturk, CTO Ertan Ünver and CMO Kutay Koralturk—previously worked together at AppLovin’s Lion Studios, where they launched the top-grossing game Hexa Sort, which has generated more than $50 million in in-app purchase revenue. Drawing on that experience, the studio is concentrating on disciplined product execution and the creation of long-lived puzzle intellectual property. Headquartered in Barcelona, Cheer has already assembled an 11-person, high-talent-density team sourced from leading European gaming companies and is actively hiring additional global talent. The company positions itself against the industry’s short-term mindset by focusing on building game franchises and an enduring studio culture. Proceeds from its recent financing will accelerate development of its upcoming slate of mobile puzzle titles and expand its headquarters footprint.