Turkey’s Spyke Games raises $55M for casual mobile games
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Spyke Games has raised $55 million in a seed round to make casual and social mobile games. It’s the biggest seed round raised by a woman CEO in Turkey and for a game company globally.
Game venture capital firm Griffin Gaming Partners led the round. The Istanbul company is led by CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu, who was part of Peak Games, which Zynga acquired in June 2020 for $1.8 billion. The company is making its first game, Royal Riches, for Android and iOS.
Spyke Games focuses on the mobile gaming market, which is the fastest growing industry segment, with $136 billion in gross bookings, according to IDG consulting. Mobile gaming is estimated to grow 248% in the next 10 years, according to market researcher Newzoo.
The cofounders are five gaming industry leaders who have built teams and developed many of the world’s top-grossing global mobile titles which collectively amassed 9.5 million daily active users (DAU) and $1 billion in revenue to date.
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The Spyke cofounders were previously cofounders or executive team members at Peak Games, Zynga, and Riot Games. They include CEO Rina Onur Sirinoglu, chief operating officer Remi Onur (Rina’s brother), chief product officer Barkin Basaran, chief technology officer Fuat Coşkun, and chief marketing officer Mithat Madra. Onur Sirinoglu, Onur, and Basaran were part of the early Peak team and moved on to be part of the team at Zynga Turkey.
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