Best Gaming Companies in Southeast, Vietnam
The 50 best Gaming companies in Southeast, Vietnam in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Axie Infinity.
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 Southeast
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Axie Infinity 🦄 Developer of a decentralized strategy-based gaming platform | $161M | 69 mo ago | Funding Raised | Aleksander Leonard Larsen Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer | 2018 | SubstackSentryZendesk+18 | — |
| 2 | VNG 🦄 Online games developer and cloud solutions provider | $29M | 89 mo ago | Series B | Vuong Khai Co-Founder | 2004 | Node.jsSalesforceTailwind CSS+12 | 2 partnerships |
| 3 | Ancient8 Provider of PC and console-based blockchain gaming platform | $10M | 20 mo ago | Series A | Nathan L Co-Founder | 2021 | Node.jsThree.jsRadix UI+13 | — |
| 4 | Space Falcon Developer of casual games | $4M | 54 mo ago | Series A | — | 2011 | Proton MailNode.jsFirebase+13 | — |
| 5 | Orbitau Provider of NFT-based role-playing game | $3M | 53 mo ago | Deadpooled | Minh Nguyen CEO | 2021 | — | — |
| 6 | Thetan Arena Developer of an eSports game with blockchain technology and NFTs | $2M | 58 mo ago | Funding Raised | Hoang So Co-Founder | 2021 | SentryThree.jsstyled-components+13 | — |
| 7 | TankWars Developer of play-to-earn battle metaverse game | $2M | 54 mo ago | Seed | Paul Nguyen Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 8 | Topebox Mobile game developer & publisher studio | $2M | 63 mo ago | Seed | Nghia Do Co-Founder | 2012 | Node.jsTailwind CSSVercel+8 | — |
| 9 | Luna Rush Provider of NFT-based role-playing game | $2M | 55 mo ago | Seed | Ngo Thai Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | — |
| 10 | Zuki Provider of NFT-based multiplayer battle arena games | $1M | 56 mo ago | Seed | Dan Ngo Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | Ant Designstyled-componentsReact+13 | — |
| 11 | Duelist King Developer of PC and console-based NFT card games | $1M | 57 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Dzung Tran Co-Founder & CEO | 2021 | — | — |
Top 12 Gaming companies in Southeast
#1
Series A · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2021$10Mraised▾
Provider of PC and console-based blockchain gaming platform. The decentralised platform allows players to play and build the metaverse while earning rewards.
- Dec 2024Grant (prize money)—
- Jul 2024ICO$40K
- Jun 2022Series A$6M
- Jan 2022Seed$4M
#2
Funding Raised · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2018 · 303 employees$161Mraised▾
Developer of a decentralized strategy-based gaming platform. It provides users with a platform where users can buy virtual plots that can be upgraded over time using a variety of resources and crafting ingredients that can be founded when playing the game. Users can also sell the plots in the marketplace.
- Nov 2020ICO$3M
#3
VNG 🦄Series B · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2004 · 3505 employees$29Mraised▾
Online games developer and cloud solutions provider. The company has various products such as online digital content, community links, utility software, and eCommerce. The games developed and published by the company include Gunny, Kiem The, Crossfire Legends, and more.
- Mar 2019Series B$29M
#4
Series A · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2011 · 8 employees$4Mraised▾
Developer of casual games. It offers games such as Aviatrix and 2048. It develops games for PC and consoles, mobile, and is made available on playstore, app store.
- Jan 2022ICO$770K
- Jan 2022Series A$4M
#5
Deadpooled · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2021$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of NFT-based role-playing game. It offers "Orbitau - Seven Deadly Sins", a fantasy game with role-playing and turn-based strategy gameplay where players can participate and earn rewards. The game is available for iOS and Android platforms.
- Feb 2022ICO$3.6M
- Dec 2021Seed$3.3M
#6
Seed · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2021 · 14 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Developer of play-to-earn battle metaverse game. It offers a blockchain technology-based game with the genre of action tank battles. It allows players to explore the game world, collect gaming items, participate in battles with other players, raid, and use earn by trading and staking NFT.
- Jan 2022ICO$2.9M
- Jan 2022Seed$2.4M
#7
Seed · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2021$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of NFT-based role-playing game. Luna Rush is a multiplayer role-playing NFT game that lets the players engage in the combat arena in PvP mode and earn rewards in the form of NFT tokens to trade in the marketplace. The game is available for iOS and Android platforms.
- Jan 2022Seed$1.9M
- Jan 2022ICO$2.5M
#8
Funding Raised · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2021$2.4Mraised▾
Developer of an eSports game with blockchain technology and NFTs. It allows players to form teams and earn rewards. It combines free-to-play and play-to-earn models, offering free heroes for casual play. Players can acquire NFTs to earn rewards and maximize profits. The game aims to create a stable economy with decentralized ownership of digital assets.
- Sep 2021ICO$2.4M
#9
Seed · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2021 · 14 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of NFT-based multiplayer battle arena games. Zuki Moba is an online shooter game with simple gameplay and chibi graphics. It offers investment opportunities to players, non-replaceable, non-fungible tokens, and users can make a profit by playing the game, collecting these NFTs, and selling them on Zuki Moba Marketplace for other users.
- Nov 2021ICO$740K
- Nov 2021Seed$1.4M
#10
Seed · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2012 · 57 employees$2Mraised▾
Topbox is a mobile game developer & publisher studio. The company specializes in developing casual games such as arcades, puzzles, action, and more. Some of the games developed by the company include Beetle.io, Thief Rivals, Sky Dancer: Free Falling, Solitaire, and more. These games are available on the iOS platform. It generates revenue through in-app purchases.
- Apr 2021Seed$1M
- Apr 2020Seed$1M
#11
Acqui-Hired · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2021 · 10 employees$1Mraised▾
Developer of PC and console-based NFT card games. The company's game is the decentralized NFT card game that aims to transform the way people play, participate and earn in card games.
- Oct 2021ICO$2.1M
- Oct 2021Seed$1M
#12
Seed · Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast · founded 2022—raised▾
Online platform offering metaverse gaming ecosystem. It offers an AI-powered platform and proprietary smart contracts that turn play-to-earn into play-on-earn. It provides predictive gamer analytics to the players which helps them with in-game asset allocation.
- Jun 2022Seed—
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