Türkiye-based mobile game company Grand Games announced that it received a $70 million Series B investment led by Balderton Growth Fund. With the new round, the total investment amount the company has received to date has reached 103 million dollars. Existing investors Bek Ventures, Laton Ventures and Mert Gür also participated in the investment round. Grand Games completed its Series A investment led by Balderton Early Fund about a year ago.
Founded in 2024 by Bekir Batuhan Çelebi, Mehmet Çalım and Mustafa Fırtına, the company reached three investment rounds in two years. Grand Games’ total investment increased to 103 million dollars. According to the statement of Grand Games, the company’s income increased approximately 5 times in the last year. The company currently has six active games in its portfolio. The total number of downloads of Grand Games games has exceeded 50 million.
Magic Sort and Block Out, two of the company’s games, rose to the first two places in the US iOS download lists. These results show that Grand Games has established a rapidly scaling structure, especially in the hybrid casual puzzle category. The company works with an autonomous studio model. One of the striking points in Grand Games’ growth strategy is the broad responsibility given to game development teams. The company works with a structure consisting of five independent studios.
In this model, teams have a direct say in the product decisions of the games they develop; data, production infrastructure and common processes are managed centrally. This approach differs from the centralized decision-making model common in the mobile gaming industry. Grand Games aims to enable teams to make product decisions faster and scale different games at the same time. It focuses on the hybrid casual puzzle category.
Grand Games focuses on the hybrid casual puzzle area in its product strategy. This category combines the accessible structure of classic casual games with deeper progression systems and long-term user loyalty elements. In a period when user acquisition costs in the mobile game market are increasing and producing hit games is becoming more difficult, it becomes more critical for companies to create a repeatable production model rather than a single successful game.
In this respect, Grand Games’ investment tour can be considered as a support not only for the current game performance but also for the company’s scalable development model. Grand Games Co-Founder and CEO Bekir Batuhan Çelebi stated that they aim to expand the team and bring existing and new games to wider audiences with the new investment. What kind of growth pace will Grand Games achieve after the investment; The performance of new games will become clearer along with the revenue-generating capacity of existing games and whether the company can scale its studio model sustainably.
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