# Joakim Achren

> Joakim Achren is a pre-seed investor backing Gaming, PC Games and Mobile Apps. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jachren
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/joakim_a
- Website: https://x.com/joakim_a

Joakim Achren is a pre-seed investor focused on Gaming and PC Games. Joakim Achren is Co Founder at Next Games. Previously, he has worked as Director of Analytics at Supercell.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$5.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.2M–$3.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 6 | 60% |
| PC Games | 2 | 20% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 20% |
| Online Games | 2 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 20% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 50% |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finland | 5 | 50% |
| Turkey | 2 | 20% |
| United States | 2 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boby.ai | Boby.ai develops artificial intelligence-supported mobile applications for end users | $1.5M | Seed | Apr 15, 2025 |  |
| Benjamin | Benjamin is the holding company for the Benjamin App, a cash-rewards platform that allows consumers, merchants, and gamers to earn cash by completing daily tasks, playing casual games, viewing content and advertisements, and making card purchases with cash back. The application operates within the cashback, gaming, and digital advertisingindustries. Benjamin focuses on creating user-friendly experiences that facilitate engagement and reward participation. | $5.5M | Seed | Mar 11, 2024 |  |
| Tribo Games | Tribo Games is a new mobile-first web3 game studio. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Oct 10, 2022 |  |
| Black Block | Black Block is a remote-first gaming studio with offices in Helsinki, Finland. The team is comprised of industry veterans with years of experience building top grossing franchises ranging from mobile to AAA. The studio is currently working on The Sprawl, an upcoming blockchain-enabled MMO. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 24, 2022 |  |
| Cypher Games | Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company that develops casual games for users and players. The company focuses on the next generation mobile puzzle games. It aims to shape the future of mobile gaming together with its colleagues, investors, and thought partners. | $3.2M | Pre-Seed | May 31, 2022 |  |
| Superbloom | Superbloom is a new game development studio. Superbloom intends to make mobile games with a lifestyle content based on interests that are common among women. | $3M | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Social First | Social First is a fresh studio, highly experienced in cross-platform social sandbox MMO's. With proven product/audience fit and exceptional results in early market testing, our current title is based years of learnings and data, providing significant evolution in UGC, digital asset trading and social gameplay.Combined with a validatedgrowth playbook with IDFA-independent UA across platforms for scaling, we are on a clear path to a $1B+ company.We are a veteran, full stack team with years of experience and numerous titles across the industry under our belts, backed by Play Ventures.As the latest milestone, our pre-alpha testing in June 2023 proved exceptionally strong engagement and retention! | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jan 26, 2022 |  |
| AudioMob | Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio | $14M | Series A | Nov 09, 2021 |  |
| Neon Koi | Creating action games with epic stories to foster lasting connections with players around the world. | $4.4M | Seed | Jan 17, 2021 |  |
| Flowstate Games | Flowstate Games is a mobile game studio based in Helsinki, Finland. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 14, 2020 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Play Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/play-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Makers Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/makers-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [1Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1up-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Emerging Europe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-emerging-europe) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Joakim Achren invest in?

Joakim Achren invests primarily in Gaming, PC Games and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Joakim Achren's check size?

Joakim Achren typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5.5M at Seed and $1.2M–$3.2M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Joakim Achren participates in.

### When did Joakim Achren last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Joakim Achren closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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