Good Job Games raises $23M to make better match-3 games in Turkiye

Good Job Games, a fast-growing mobile game company based in Turkiye, has secured $23 million in a seed funding round to build a legacy entertainment company for players of all ages. That’s a lot of money for a startup, but Good Job Games was able to raise the large seed financing because it has a proven track record of popular games, Zen Match, Wonder Blast and Match Villains. Menlo Ventures and Tripledot cofounder Akin Babayigit’s new games fund Arcadia led the round. It’s unusual for a game company to raise its first round of funding eight years after it started. But Good Job Games, founded by industry leaders Ilker Ilicali and Nazim Akmandil, hasn’t needed money before as it had incredible momentum as a developer and publisher since its bootstrapped founding. In its first two years, it became one of the most successful hypercasual game publishers with more than three billion downloads. The company has since sold its game Zen Match, and recently shifted its focus to innovating th ... Read full article.