Best Gaming Companies in New Zealand
The 52 best Gaming companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: MetaDojo.
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Our analysis of 180 Gaming companies
$26.0b in tracked funding; 90% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Gaming companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founder | Employees | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A44 Game development studio creating multiplayer games | — | Unfunded | — | 57 | 2013 | RubyAnimate.cssVarnish+12 | — |
| 2 | Air Dingy Mobile game development studio | — | Unfunded | Matt Baeriswyl Founder | — | 2013 | — | — |
| 3 | Black Salt Games Developer of PC and console-based strategy games | — | Unfunded | Nadia Thorne Co-Founder & CEO | — | 2021 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
| 4 | CerebralFix Mobile game developer based out of New Zealand | — | Unfunded | — | 70 | 2008 | DatoCMSstyled-componentsEmotion+11 | — |
| 5 | Dinosaur Polo Club Video game developer specializing in casual games | — | Unfunded | Peter Curry Co-Founder | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 6 | Gamefroot Platform which allows users to create short casual games | — | Unfunded | Dan Milward Co-Founder & CEO | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 7 | Geo AR Geospatial technology for gaming and education | — | Unfunded | Melanie Langlotz Founder & CEO | — | 2015 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+14 | — |
| 8 | InGame Development and stratification company engaged in gamification services | — | Unfunded | Paul O'Leary Co-Founder | — | 2010 | — | — |
Top 4 Gaming companies in New Zealand
#1
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2021 · 1 employees$2Mraised▾
Developer of PC and console-based action-adventure game
- Mar 2022Seed$2M
#2
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2021 · 11 employees$3Mraised▾
NFT-based trading platform for digital games. It offers solutions for NFT minting & trading, plays to earn, NFT collections, land allocation, collect rewards, virtual event hosting, and more. It allows users to early adopters blockchain-backed 3D space to develop virtual land.
- Jan 2022Seed$3M
#3
Deadpooled · Christchurch, Canterbury · founded 2009 · 11 employees$550Kraised▾
MiniMonos is a web game development company based in New Zealand. The company is best known for the development of an internet-based virtual world for kids. The company has also launched an iOS application known as "MonkeyMe" for kids.
- Dec 2010Seed$550K
#4
Seed · Christchurch, Canterbury · founded 2007 · 12 employees—raised▾
Developer of PC and console-based casual games. It offers multiple games which include Dread Hunger a game of survival and betrayal, Fortnite Creative a war game, Last Tide a battle royale shooter game, and Depth a dark aquatic game.
- Sep 2022Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Gaming coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Gaming Technology is moving in New Zealand
A read on the academic research around Gaming Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 29 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- Victoria University of Wellington9
- University of Auckland6
- University of Canterbury5
- Auckland University of Technology2
- University of Otago2
- Rendering (computer graphics)4→6
- Rendering (computer graphics)10
- Real-time rendering6
- Computer graphics (images)5
- Computer vision4
- Augmented reality4
- Mathematics education1
- Game based learning1
- Game engine1
- Game programming1
- Human–computer interaction1
Where gaming tech is researched across New Zealand
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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