As Mobidictum Conference 2024 approaches, we are excited to showcase the leading voices and visionaries in the gaming industry who will attend and contribute. These investors are pivotal to shaping the future of gaming, supporting your projects, and fostering growth within the industry.
By attending, you’ll have the chance to meet these investors and experience the future of gaming firsthand. Whether you are an entrepreneur looking for funding or a company seeking partnerships, Mobidictum Conference 2024 is the perfect stage for collaboration and growth in the gaming ecosystem.
Key investors attending Mobidictum Conference 2024:
500 Emerging Europe
500 Emerging Europe aims to help talented entrepreneurs build global businesses. Its mission is to back defensible technology companies, fuel talent arbitrage, and help create global powerhouses.
500 Emerging Europe was extremely helpful in recruiting our country head in Istanbul and enabling us to make our first key hires. Whenever we had trouble with our hardware manufacturing and needed to change suppliers and facilities, one of the introductions we received from Enis led to a direct conversion in us switching our entire hardware manufacturing and assembly process.
500 was very helpful with potential client introductions to us such as Turkish Airlines, Peak Games and Carbon Health. They’ve helped us establish both a backend development and also a client-facing sales team in Turkiye.
Kaan Günay, Co-founder, Firefly
500 Emerging Europe has invested in over 70+ companies, including Fume, Yoneda Labs, Pine, Daytona, Cypher, FranTic, Datapad, Plum and many more.
We are proud of being a 500 Emerging Europe portfolio company because when we go to new countries in our expansion journey, 500’s global offices help us a lot in terms of strategy and reaching out to the right people.
Second thing is, we believe in the power of working with good people. Entrepreneurs are romantics, working with people you love is important and we love you guys. You are the investor with the fastest response rate. I haven’t seen that response rate in any investor. It is a huge support. 500 made Insider’s and its cofounder’s lives easier in the journey.
Hande Cilingir, Co-Founder, Insider
Atanova Ventures
Atanova Ventures is an early-stage investment company that invests in innovative startups and founders in the technology industry. They offer mentoring, strategy, new opportunities, legal help, and financial and technical support to their investments.
Atanova Ventures has invested in companies like Blind, artifica.io, roombadi, Remote Team, Loki and much more.
Atanova has also partnered with industry-leading companies such as AWS Activate, Laton, TR Angels, Mobidictum, and more.
Boğaziçi Ventrues
Boğaziçi Ventures serves as an investment partner, establishing long-term relationships with investors and offering customized products based on their preferences. They invest in technology and offer personalized investment instruments.
The company has 100 Million USD in total assets under management, 44 startup investments with 9 years of experience, and a team with 26 people.
Some of their investments include companies such as Joygame, ESA Sports, Liquidity Trading, Protranslate, Mafia Games, and many more.
Games Ventures
Founded by industry veteran Mohamed El Sheakh, Games Ventures aims to meet the growing needs of mobile games, especially in the Middle East region.
With the massive focus on mobile games in the region and my personal experience over the last 20 years in the business of mobile games and the mobile games ecosystem, this is a natural progression.
Games Ventures mandate is simple: Build profitable mobile games from the Middle East for the Middle East and the world through top-notch teams, world-class partnerships, and local and global investments.
Mohamed El Sheakh, Founder of Games Ventures
Griffin Gaming Partners
Griffin Gaming Partners’ mission is to be the definitive source of game industry capital. They are one of the world’s leading venture funds focused exclusively on gaming, with $1,3 billion under management.
The company has over 22 years of experience in game finance. It is represented in 16 different countries and has funded 35 startup acquisitions.
“As repeat entrepreneurs we didn’t just want just capital for Spyke Games, we wanted best experience and connections in the industry. Griffin understands our business and knows everyone in gaming. They understand what we need and why, and open doors in days that would take us months.”
Rina Onur Sırınoglu, CEO, Spyke Games
Griffin Gaming Partners include Discord, Overwolf, AppLovin, Forte, Tactile, and many more.
“The Griffin team has a unique vision for where our industry is headed. I trust their judgment, and ability to add real value. For the builders out there, would absolutely recommend including them in your conversations.”
Sarah Bond, Corporate VP of Gaming Ecosystem, Microsoft
Laton Ventures
Laton Ventures is a gaming-focused venture capital firm backed by gaming industry’s highflyers – over 20 successful gaming industry veterans.
Laton invests primarily in early-stage (pre-seed & seed) gaming companies all over the world – from mobile to cross-platform and AI-enhanced experiences. They support game design, product management, marketing (user acquisition), and HR.
Laton Ventures has invested in Grand Games, Slay, Pine Games, Sequel Games, and Layer AI.
Ludus Ventures
Established in 2021, Ludus Ventures supports and empowers aspiring entrepreneurs. The company currently has two funds. The first fund was founded in early 2021 in Luxembourg with a global mandate, and the second one was founded in early 2024 as a Turkish VCIF. Ludus focuses on gaming, game tech, and emerging categories.
“Ludus VC is one of the most founder-friendly and gaming-focused investors in the region. They always refrain from micro-management and are always looking for ways to support us, from researching alternative suppliers for daily needs to strategic partnerships. Also, Ludus keeps us informed about the market dynamics with fresh data that is typically out of reach for an early-stage startup.”
Deniz Korzay, Fortune Mina Games CEO
Ludus has invested in many studios, including TaleMonster, Midas Games, Mage, Spektra Games, Stage Zero, Gleam Games, and Paxie Games.
“Having Ludus Ventures as part of our investor lineup is a huge asset. Their expertise in ad tech and gaming, combined with a proactive and hands-on approach, significantly enhances our capabilities. They are consistently responsive to our needs, offering valuable insights into crucial industry metrics and facilitating warm introductions to potential customers and key industry contact.
Andris Merkulovs, Monetizr CEO
Play Ventures
Play Ventures invests early in the most promising free-to-play and Web3 game studios and games services startups worldwide. They help ambitious and passionate entrepreneurs create the next $100M+ gaming powerhouse.
Since launching Play Ventures in December 2018, the company has invested in over 65 companies worldwide, including studios like Bigger Games, AppCharge, Makea Games, Monday Off, Savage Game Studios, and many more.
PlayGate Ventures
PlayGate Ventures invests in future leaders in the game and game technology industry. As a global early-stage investment platform, they focus on innovative game studios, advanced gaming platforms, and interactive entertainment technologies. They aim to discover, invest in, and grow pre-seed and seed-stage startups.
PlayGate Ventures offers financial capital, valuable know-how, and extensive networks. The company also provides strategic support and brings expertise to each investment.
PvX Partners
PvX Partners is a financial services platform that provides non-dilutive capital designed to support user acquisition strategies.
They co-invest in a company’s sales and marketing budget and, in return, share a portion of the value created through newly acquired users up to a predefined cap. Beyond this cap, the entirety of the user lifetime value accrues to the company, ensuring a sustainable and mutually beneficial financing model.
PvX is backed by Play Ventures and General Catalyst.
ScaleX Ventures
ScaleX Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in late seed and A-round investments in Emerging Europe’s most promising tech startups.
“From the minute we met, ScaleX has been an amazing support. In addition to having some of the sharpest minds with impeccable observations and strategization, the ScaleX team has been constantly, proactively, and relentlessly looking for ways to add value and help us become the best version of ourselves through all the ups and downs of the proverbial rollercoaster. We are very fortunate and privileged for being able to team up with ScaleX.”
Çetin Meriçli, CEO & Co-founder at Locomation
Post-investment, they support founders in getting to product-market fit and scaling the business into the global markets by providing strategic insights, expert guidance and executive mentoring, peer-to-peer learning, access to investors, coaching and exclusive opportunities.
“Growth is the oxygen of any organization and elevates ambitions and inspires a sense of purpose. I am very excited to join Scalex as an LP and adviser to support their growth and impactful value creation vision in the face of unexpected challenges around the world.”
Cansen Başaran-Symes, Chairman of the Board, Allianz Sigorta A.Ş
WePlay Ventures
WePlay Ventures is a gaming VC investing in Europe, Central Asia and Turkiye that supports pre-seed and seed-stage gaming studios to achieve their potential. For studios to achieve maximum growth, they share their deep industry expertise and extensive network of partners.
WePlay HUB offers a 3-month Gaming Acceleration Program, through which gaming studios can explore and utilize WePlay Ventures’ broad network and access gaming industry experts, experienced founders, and investors.
Their portfolio includes Mixer, Studio Billion, Hero Concept, Gnarly Games, Udo Games, Unipoly Games, and more.
WePlay Ventures was the most active Gaming VC in Turkiye in 2021 and 2022, with 450+ games in their portfolio.
Join us in Mobidictum Conference 2024!
Join us on October 15-16 and seize the opportunity to connect with these top-tier investors who are shaping the future of gaming at Mobidictum Conference 2024.
