Play Ventures
VC Fund
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
- Total investments:
- 143
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
- Fund size:
- $140M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Play Ventures invests in
Stages Play Ventures invests in
Countries Play Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$9.9M
- Pre-Seed
- $700k–$3.5M
- Series A
- $6.1M–$26M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 43 (30%)
- Video Games 17 (12%)
- Software 14 (10%)
- Blockchain 14 (10%)
- Online Games 12 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 62 (43%)
- Pre-Seed 15 (10%)
- Series A 14 (10%)
- Funding Round 14 (10%)
- Series B 3 (2%)
Country
- United States 24 (17%)
- Finland 12 (8%)
- United Kingdom 7 (5%)
- Turkey 4 (3%)
- India 3 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anton Backman
Investment Associate
|
Investment Associate | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Elad Levy
Limited Partner
|
Limited Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Harri Manninen
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 33 | Find email | |
Henric Suuronen
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Michail Katkoff
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surge Games is a mobile game development studio that creates hybrid-casual puzzle applications. The company focuses on utilizing AI-native technologies to design and build digital experiences for global mobile platforms. | $3M / Seed / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| geoSurge provides an AI platform that helps organizations understand and improve how they are represented in large language models and AI-powered search systems. The company measures how AI models recall, describe, and prioritize brands across different prompts, model versions, and engines, enabling users to monitor changes in AI visibility overtime. Its platform includes tools for tracking brand mentions, competitor comparisons, visibility trends, and AI-generated sources, while also supporting corpus engineering to strengthen how structured information is understood by AI models. geoSurge applies data science, engineering, and research to analyze model behavior, identify gaps in brand representation, and help organizations improve the accuracy and consistency of AI-generated responses. | $12M / Seed / Jul 03, 2026 | ||
| PvX Partners is a financial services platform that provides funding solutions and data intelligence tools primarily for consumer app and gaming companies, with a focus on supporting user acquisition strategies. The company offers non-dilutive financing through products such as PvX Capital, which enables businesses to access credit lines tied to marketing performance and repay based on generated revenue rather than fixed terms. Its platform also includes PvX Lambda, a data and analytics system that integrates with existing infrastructure to benchmark performance, analyze cohorts, and guide decision-making using real-time metrics. PvX Partners combines capital provision with market intelligence, using cohort-based evaluation and performance tracking to determine funding eligibility and optimize growth strategies. The company’s model involves sharing in the value generated from acquired users up to a predefined limit, aligning its returns with client performance while reducing reliance on equity financing. | $10.5M / Series A / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| Uplane is an AI-powered marketing platform that automates ad creation, campaign management, and performance tracking. | $4.5M / Seed / Apr 16, 2026 | ||
| StoReel is a unique platform that brings captivating short dramas. | $9M / Seed / Mar 26, 2026 | ||
| Vuelo is redefining how the world plans, books and pays for travel, elevating journeys into richer experiences | $8.7M / Seed / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| Cheer Games is a mobile gaming studio creating casual puzzle games with fresh gameplay. | $4.5M / Pre-Seed / Mar 05, 2026 | ||
| Building the future of esports betting | $35M / Series C / Jan 15, 2026 | ||
| PvX Partners is a financial services platform that provides funding solutions and data intelligence tools primarily for consumer app and gaming companies, with a focus on supporting user acquisition strategies. The company offers non-dilutive financing through products such as PvX Capital, which enables businesses to access credit lines tied to marketing performance and repay based on generated revenue rather than fixed terms. Its platform also includes PvX Lambda, a data and analytics system that integrates with existing infrastructure to benchmark performance, analyze cohorts, and guide decision-making using real-time metrics. PvX Partners combines capital provision with market intelligence, using cohort-based evaluation and performance tracking to determine funding eligibility and optimize growth strategies. The company’s model involves sharing in the value generated from acquired users up to a predefined limit, aligning its returns with client performance while reducing reliance on equity financing. | $4.7M / Seed / Dec 05, 2025 | ||
| 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. | $30M / Series A / Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| See all 143 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Play Ventures invest in?
Play Ventures invests primarily in Gaming, Video Games and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 143 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Play Ventures invest in?
Play Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$9.9M at Seed, $700k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $6.1M–$26M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Play Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Play Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Play Ventures?
Public channels for Play Ventures include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Play Ventures?
The team at Play Ventures includes Anton Backman (Investment Associate), Elad Levy (Limited Partner) and Harri Manninen (Founding Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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