Top 20 Gaming Startup Investors in Cyprus in January 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Gaming startups based in Cyprus. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Cyprus. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Gaming Startup Investors in Cyprus in January 2025
Investor | Gaming Cyprus investments |
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GEM Capital | 11 |
The Games Fund | 8 |
Flashpoint | 5 |
RTP Global | 5 |
Vladimir Nikolsky | 2 |
The Carlyle Group | 2 |
My.Games Venture Capital | 2 |
Krafton | 1 |
Embria | 1 |
Heracles Capital | 1 |
Flint Capital | 1 |
VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group) | 1 |
Anton Sinelnikov | 1 |
Yellow Rocks! | 1 |
Davidovs Venture Collective | 1 |
Raga Partners | 1 |
Velo Partners | 1 |
DLA Piper | 1 |
Play Ventures | 1 |
Almaz Capital | 1 |
GEM Capital is an international investment company that operates in private equity and venture capital markets. Leading venture capital investor in the games industry
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- Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Cyprus, United States, Israel
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- AppMagic — Mobile market intelligence tool
- OpenStreet — Invest in SpaceX and OpenAI with just $100. We purchase shares in premier private companies like SpaceX and OpenAI, then divide them into fractional pieces, making these investments accessible to everyone.
- Eschatology Entertainment — Game developers on a quest to create a new generation of immersive hardcore shooters set in a unique apocalyptic world.
TGF is an early-stage VC fund founded by video games industry veterans.
We invest in future leaders: game developers, gaming technologies, and services.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Cyprus, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
- Drama Studios — Drama Studios is a video game development studio company. UNRECORD is a single-player FPS that follows the story of a tactical police officer via the eyes of body camera.
- Dark Passenger — Dark Passenger is a firm that develops video games. The team consists of both new blood specialists and seasoned gamedev professionals. The objective is to develop incredibly thrilling online experiences that emphasize both collaboration and competition and are captivated by human connections, alliances, fearless conflicts, and surprising turns ofevents.
Venture capital serves as funding for emerging, inventive enterprises poised for rapid expansion.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GeoX — GeoX is an Aerial Imagery AI analytics company. We produce geospatial Property Data which is used for Underwriting & Claims in the US and European insurance industries. GeoX unique proposition is in 3-dimensional extraction technology which provides rich information about every property. GeoX also produces 3D building datasets from aerialimagery for complete geographies using automated processes. 3D building models are digital representations of the properties, and in conjunction with aerial imagery allows every staff member in any insurance discipline to see the property visualization, and get a good understanding of the structure, its dimensions and characteristics without visiting in the site. GeoX uses propriatetary and Patented technology for the 3D extraction.domains: Insurtech, Smart cities
- iDWELL — iDWELL (www.idwell.com) is a revolutionary CRM cloud software and tenant app, especially designed for the next generation of real estate management. It enables the automation of routine processes, and bundles as well as optimizes all communication between the stakeholders of a property, including service providers, asset managers, landlords,tenants and property managers. Currently, more than 750,000 apartment units are managed with the assistance of iDWELL.The iDWELL ticketing system and the connected tenant app automates routine maintenance tasks with regards to handling and reporting damages. This allows iDWELL customers to focus on more important and revenue-generating tasks. The iDWELL marketplace provides further opportunities to service tenants and landlords while generating revenue.
- Rep AI — Shopify's #1 AI Concierge (chatbot) for eCommerce. Rep converts more traffic (CVR), increases sales (AOV), and can handle up to 97% of your support tickets.
A global, early-stage venture capital firm, backing founders who use technology to reimagine how the world works like Datadog, DeliveryHero and Cred.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tola — Tola offers a simple and easy way for businesses to pay and get paid, however and whenever they want. Sign up today!
- Conduktor — The all-in-one friendly interface to work with the Apache Kafka ecosystem.
- FirstClub — FirstClub's mission is to become a rapid commerce-first omnichannel retailer that uses offline experience stores to promote the quality of its items. FirstClub's goal is to create a platform that serves customers and offers brands a unique opportunity to connect with affluent homes.
Vladimir Nikolsky joined Mail.Ru Group as Vice President of Online Games business in 2009 and became Chief Operating Officer (Russia) in 2013. Previously he was CEO of online game holding Astrum Online Entertainment (from 2007 to 2009) which subsequently became a part of Mail.Ru Group, and co-founder and CEO of online game company IT Territory(from 2004 to 2007). Vladimir graduated from Ivanovo State Power Engineering University.
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- Top App Games — Top App Games specializes in mobile game creation and publishing, with a strong emphasis on strategic games.
The Carlyle Group is a private equity firm that caters to early and later-stage companies. The firm operates four fund families, focusing on leveraged buyouts, venture & growth capital, real estate, and leveraged finance investments. It prefers to invest in various industries such as aerospace, government services, commercial products,consumer, media, retail, financial services, healthcare, infrastructure, industrial, technology, and transportation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Private Equity, Funding Round, Series B
- United States, China, India
Portfolio highlights
- Ocorian — Ocorian offers comprehensive fund administration, corporate services, and compliance solutions to various clients, including asset managers and financial institutions. The company specializes in entity management, regulatory support, and private client services, ensuring tailored assistance for diverse needs.
- North Bridge — North Bridge offers tailored C-PACE financing for new and recently completed projects across all commercial real estate asset classes nationwide. We have earned industry recognition for completing some of the largest and most innovative C-PACE projects to date by combining creative financial acumen
- Smartsheet — Smartsheet is the best way to plan, track, automate, and report on work, enabling you to move from idea to impact - fast. This cloud-based work management platform empowers collaboration, drives better decision making, and accelerates innovation for over 70,000 brands in 190 countries, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500. Named by Forbes asone of the world’s top private cloud companies, Smartsheet complements existing enterprise investments by deeply integrating with applications from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many others.
MGVC is a global gaming investor
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Cyprus, Belarus, Russian Federation
Portfolio highlights
- dc1AB — dc1AB they are making a game with multi- players.
- Bring It On — Bring It On Games is the ultimate online casino experience, offering a wide selection of real money games that you can play from the comfort of your home. Visit now!
- Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.
Create the original. Connect the world.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Apps, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- India, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deftouch — Deftouch is a game development company that currently focuses on winning the Cricket gaming market, by providing a billion cricket-mad followers with a platform to engage & interact with their daydreams with a social, Realtime multiplayer game.
- Day 4 Night Studios — Day 4 Night Studios is a game development studio that offer interactive and original computer as well as video games.
- Eschatology Entertainment — Game developers on a quest to create a new generation of immersive hardcore shooters set in a unique apocalyptic world.
We found, fund and grow tech companies since 2007
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile Apps, Online Games
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- 10K Riders — 10k Riders is a mobile publishing company that offers IP ownership, profit-shares in their clients' favor, and non-exclusivity. 10K Riders is built around a “creative-yet-reliable” co-development approach, uniting different developers to pool resources and knowledge. The company is headquartered in Limassol, Limassol and was founded in August2021, and has worked on over 100 gaming projects with 78 studios online.
Heracles Capital is a venture capital investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Software, Media and Entertainment, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Cyprus, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Arya — Arya is building the Couples Wellness category, poised to become the next billion-dollar cornerstone in the global wellness market.Couples are falling into routine and many are experiencing increased loneliness. While billions are spent on fitness, mindfulness, and sleep, emotional and physical intimacy is often neglected. We invest in swipingfor the right partner and then trying to fix it (or spend a fortune divorcing them)... but not much in between.Arya's AI concierge makes it radically easy for couples to invest in their relationship and love life, both inside and outside the bedroom - a crucial ingredient to a successful relationship.
- ContextSDK — ContextSDK transforms your app using real-time user context to improve conversions. Enhance user satisfaction and raise app revenue by knowing your users' unique needs, no matter where they are.
- Punchup.live — Punchup is developing innovative tools to allow live entertainers to own and activate the relationship with their fans
Venture capital investments
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cynomi — Cynomi addresses a critical gap in mid-market cyber protection - creating and executing a cyber and compliance strategy .
- BlinqIO — BlinqIO developed an autonomous AI-operated virtual tester (BVT) - the BVT receives as input test scenarios, takes decisions how to perform the tests and creates in the background test automation code.
- Sensi.Ai — Sensi.Ai developed the first audio AI that's able to analyze the routine in long term care environments, detect anomalies and provide insight on trends, with the purpose of improving the quality of care
Mail.ru Group was founded by Yuri Milner and is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world. It is one of the largest Internet companies in Russia, and the world's seventh largest Internet business in terms of page views. Mail.ru Group operates two of the three largest Russian language social networking sites(Odnoklassniki.ru and Moi Mir@Mail.Ru), the two largest instant messaging networks in Russia (ICQ and Agent), Russia's leading email service, Russia's second largest Internet portal and Russia's largest online games company.Mail also holds strategic equity stakes of 32.49% in vKontakte, Russia's largest social networking site, and 25.09% in QIWI, formerly OE Investments, one of Russia's leading payment-processing companies. It also holds small minority stakes in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.
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Investment focus
- Social Media, Mobile Apps, Education
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Russian Federation, United States, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Uchi.ru — Uchi.ru offers online courses for school students.
- O2O Holdings — Formed by a JV between Sberbank and Mail.ru Group, provides an O2O services platform focusing on key areas of food and transportation.
- AliExpress Russia — AliExpress Russia is a leading cross-border and domestic e-commerce platform in Russia.
Anton Sinelnikov is the Founder of Juicy Button Games.
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Investment focus
- Gaming
- Seed
- Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Juicy Button Games — Juicy Button Games is an independent game development studio.
Yellow Rocks! invests in fast-growing early-stage companies with a clear global expansion strategy. The fund is focused on companies that are leveraging disruptive technologies and that are ready to reach $1B.Yellow Rocks! is based in San Francisco & Lisbon and we consider ourselves geo-agnostic. We truly believe that brilliant founders canbe found anywhere irrespective of geographical location. That being said right now we are focused on startups from the US and Europe.Yellow Rocks! is formed by successful serial entrepreneurs and investors with a deep understanding of fundraising and company’s development. GPs have a 10+ years of track record in well known organizations (World Bank, IFC, Google, EPAM), universities (MIT, Harvard, Stanford) and startup ecosystems (Y Combinator, TheEngine, TechStars, MassChallenge, 500 startups). Our team is distributed around different countries including the USA, Portugal and Armenia.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Volt — Respond Flow is a text marketing platform that fully manages compliance, empowering organizations to confidently connect with their audiences while following regulations, avoiding fines, and protecting brand reputations.
- Boost.Express — Start monetizing your data and audience with advertising in just one day.
- FuseBase (formerly Nimbus) — FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) - Free Online Collaboration Software for Remote Teams. Build your wikis, client portals and more with the FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) collaboration tool ? A perfect space for online work
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Beagle — Beagle is an AI platform that specializes in innovation technology and cost reduction through AI-driven eDiscovery solutions.
- Essence App — Essence is a digital employee benefits platform that empowers women and people with cycles to thrive in the workplace by optimizing well-being and productivity by syncing activities according to the menstrual cycle. Essence is a tool that helps you turn your period into a superpower!
- Solve Intelligence — We use AI to help you write high-quality patents quickly. We do this by providing a simple in-browser document editor that any patent attorney or inventor can start using straight away.Our product can help with all stages of the patent life cycle, from drafting and filing to prosecution and opposition.If you are an an inventor, a patentattorney, or even just an enthusiast interested in the intersection of AI and intellectual property, we would love to hear from you: https://www.solveintelligence.com/contact
Raga Partners is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Digital Media, Media and Entertainment, Online Games
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United States, Cyprus, Germany
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- Kernel Foods — Kernel Foods is a robot-powered fast food startup that aims to operate with as few as three employees. The company intends to revolutionize technology, labor, real estate, and menu, and implement automation with a human touch.
- Torch Dental — Torch Dental develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices' supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Dental simplifies and streamlines the ordering process, allowing dentists to focus on their patients.
- Made on Earth Games — Made on Earth Games is a mobile gamedevelopment company founded in 2021.Our objective is to combine high quality art, deep creative gameplay and modern technologies. We want to deliver an amazing game experience to mobile devices across the world.At Made on Earth Games all team members have a unique chance to contribute to the final productand the whole company.
Founded in 2011 by Evan Hoff, Velo Partners is a venture capital firm that invests and manages a portfolio spanning the global gaming and gambling industry. Velo typically invests in Series A or early growth stage rounds. Our ideal investment candidates demonstrate strong early transaction and a clear understanding of their unit economics and growth trajectory. We also work in association with a gaming accelerator called RNG FOUNDRY for earlier stage investment in iGaming content.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile, Sports
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
- Jarvi Games — Jarvi Games is a team of young and enthusiastic people who share the goal of making the best MMO action game on mobile devices. We aspire to build the best gaming experience in open world!
- Bettormetrics — Bettormetrics is a data analytics infrastructure for your sports trading operation.
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers in 40+ countries, providing legal solutions to businesses worldwide. Helping clients succeed every day.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Cyprus
Portfolio highlights
- Tangibly — Tangibly is a platform for businesses to manage their intellectual property by securing their trade secrets in legally enforceable form.
- Wildfire Systems — We are the only white-label cashback and shopping rewards loyalty platform that helps companies monetize e-commerce everywhere.
- SingleFile Technologies — SingleFile Technologies automates secretary of state filings with our cloud based, filing platform using AI technology. From business formations to foreign qualifications, and many other filing documents, the SingleFile platform saves time, eliminates confusion, and reduces cost.
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Appcharge — Appcharge helps mobile game publishers sell in-game items directly to their players with branded web stores, global payments, and gamified offers. Boost profits by 35% and build stronger player loyalty with the fastest-growing DTC platform for top-grossing mobile games.
- Ray Browser — Ray is setting a new standard for gaming by creating the ultimate browser designed specifically for gamers. With cutting-edge features and seamless performance, it is transforming the way players experience games and empowering developers to push the boundaries of innovation. By optimizing speed, reliability, and user experience, Ray is not justenhancing gameplay but also shaping the future of the gaming industry for both players and developers alike.
- Deftouch — Deftouch is a game development company that currently focuses on winning the Cricket gaming market, by providing a billion cricket-mad followers with a platform to engage & interact with their daydreams with a social, Realtime multiplayer game.
Almaz Capital is an international venture capital firm investing in early stage, capital efficient technology companies. A unique bridge fund headquartered in Silicon Valley, Almaz Capital connects Eastern European/former Soviet engineering and entrepreneurial talent to the U.S. market and helps build global businesses. The firm invests inhigh-growth sectors such as artificial intelligence and blockchain applications, data engineering, cybersecurity, industrial IoT, networking architecture and infrastructure. Its investors include Cisco, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. Founded in 2008, Almaz Capital has invested in over 30 portfolio companies and has had nine exits to date.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile, Internet
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, Russian Federation, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Yazen — Yazen is a digital obesity clinic that offers weight loss through modern pharmaceutical treatment.
- PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market
- Alison AI — Stop wasting time and money on A/B testing. Analyze data, create impactful creatives, and optimize for outstanding results.
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