Vento Games Raises $4 Million Seed Round Led by Makers Fund

Vento Games Raises $4 Million Seed Round Led by Makers Fund

Mergers and Acquisitions

05 March 2026 09:11

TL;DR

• Istanbul-based Vento Games, founded in 2024 by former executives from Peak Games, Fungo, and Zynga, has closed a $4 million seed round led by Makers Fund and Arcadia Gaming Partners to accelerate its portfolio of mobile puzzle games.
• The studio's current titles include Blossom Word Search, Words of Wonder: Search, and Okey Plus, with the funding earmarked for scaling its lead game, expanding the portfolio, and hiring additional talent.

Vento Games has closed its seed round with $4 million in backing, giving the Istanbul-based mobile puzzle developer the capital to scale its first title and build out its portfolio. The round was led by Makers Fund and Arcadia Gaming Partners, two investors with established track records in the mobile and gaming space, and the funding will go toward game growth, new hires, and expanding the studio's portfolio of casual puzzle titles.

Founded in 2024 by former executives from Peak Games, Fungo, and Zynga, Vento brings a team that has been through the full cycle of building, scaling, and exiting mobile games at a significant level.

Why It Matters

Turkey has quietly become one of the world's most productive ecosystems for mobile casual gaming, generating multiple billion-dollar outcomes from a relatively small geographic base. Peak Games, founded in Istanbul, was acquired by Zynga for $1.8 billion in 2020, one of the largest mobile gaming acquisitions of that era. Dream Games, another Istanbul studio, built Royal Match into one of the most consistently downloaded puzzle games on the App Store globally, demonstrating that the talent pool created by Peak's success was regenerating into new ventures with serious commercial potential.

Vento's founding team having come directly from Peak Games, Fungo, and Zynga places them within that lineage. These are not first-time founders learning mobile game economics from scratch. They have shipped titles, watched data, iterated on live products, and navigated the user acquisition and monetisation realities of the casual puzzle market at scale. Michael Cheung, general partner at Makers Fund, referenced exactly this: "The Vento Games team have hard-fought experience building and launching multiple successful puzzle titles together, a rare quality we admire. We look forward to supporting them as they build on their expertise."

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Vento Games Raises $4 Million Seed Round Led by Makers Fund

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Tags: Vento Games

TL;DR

• Istanbul-based Vento Games, founded in 2024 by former executives from Peak Games, Fungo, and Zynga, has closed a $4 million seed round led by Makers Fund and Arcadia Gaming Partners to accelerate its portfolio of mobile puzzle games.
• The studio's current titles include Blossom Word Search, Words of Wonder: Search, and Okey Plus, with the funding earmarked for scaling its lead game, expanding the portfolio, and hiring additional talent.

Vento Games has closed its seed round with $4 million in backing, giving the Istanbul-based mobile puzzle developer the capital to scale its first title and build out its portfolio. The round was led by Makers Fund and Arcadia Gaming Partners, two investors with established track records in the mobile and gaming space, and the funding will go toward game growth, new hires, and expanding the studio's portfolio of casual puzzle titles.

Founded in 2024 by former executives from Peak Games, Fungo, and Zynga, Vento brings a team that has been through the full cycle of building, scaling, and exiting mobile games at a significant level.

Why It Matters

Turkey has quietly become one of the world's most productive ecosystems for mobile casual gaming, generating multiple billion-dollar outcomes from a relatively small geographic base. Peak Games, founded in Istanbul, was acquired by Zynga for $1.8 billion in 2020, one of the largest mobile gaming acquisitions of that era. Dream Games, another Istanbul studio, built Royal Match into one of the most consistently downloaded puzzle games on the App Store globally, demonstrating that the talent pool created by Peak's success was regenerating into new ventures with serious commercial potential.

Vento's founding team having come directly from Peak Games, Fungo, and Zynga places them within that lineage. These are not first-time founders learning mobile game economics from scratch. They have shipped titles, watched data, iterated on live products, and navigated the user acquisition and monetisation realities of the casual puzzle market at scale. Michael Cheung, general partner at Makers Fund, referenced exactly this: "The Vento Games team have hard-fought experience building and launching multiple successful puzzle titles together, a rare quality we admire. We look forward to supporting them as they build on their expertise."

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