Best Gaming Companies in Ukraine
The 86 best Gaming companies in Ukraine in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: DMarket.
Ukraine's Gaming sector sits at an interesting crossroads right now, and if you're trying to find who's actually funded and moving, our ranking of 86 tracked companies by disclosed equity and recent momentum is the fastest way in. Total disclosed funding across the cohort lands at $20M, concentrated sharply at the top: DMarket leads at $9M, DreamTeam follows at $5M, and Respeecher has pulled in $4M. Below that the numbers drop fast, with Ejaw Studio at $650K and Komar Games at $300K. So the capital story here is really about a small cluster of better-funded studios pulling the average up.
The broader market context matters too. Global gaming revenue was around $202.7B in 2022, forecast to reach $117.2B by 2028 at a 9.24% CAGR, with AR and VR adoption doing a lot of the heavy lifting on the demand side. Median install growth of roughly +11% YoY across 23 gaming apps signals real consumer pull, not just platform noise. Hardware themes like gaming laptops and GPUs are driving adjacent buzz even as coverage of pure-play studios stays flat. I'd also watch the loot box regulation front closely, as policy shifts there tend to reshape monetization models across the whole sector. And globally, Nodwin's $55M Starladder acquisition shows esports consolidation is still very much live this quarter.
- Statista
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 Ukraine
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DMarket Blockchain-based platform for trading virtual assets | $9M | 68 mo ago | Acquired | Vlad Panchenko Co-Founder & CEO | 2017 | TypeScriptBootstrapZone.js+26 | — |
| 2 | DreamTeam Gaming platform on Blockchain | $5M | 93 mo ago | Seed | Alexander Kokhanovskyy ex-Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
| 3 | Respeecher AI-based platform offfering to produce synthetic speech | $4M | 14 mo ago | Seed | Grant Reaber Head Of Research | 2017 | HubSpot CMS HubYouTubeAmazon Web Services+25 | — |
| 4 | Ejaw Studio Mobile game development and services | $650K | — | Early Stage | Pavel Poltoratskiy Founder & CEO | 2010 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | — |
| 5 | Komar Games Mobile game development studio | $300K | 192 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2010 | — | — |
| 6 | Hypereight Mobile games developer | $60K | 155 mo ago | Deadpooled | Ivan Azarov Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 7 | Frogwares Independent video game development studio based out of Ukraine | — | 49 mo ago | Funding Raised | Wael Amr Founder & CEO | 2000 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | 2 launchs |
| 8 | Esports Charts Provider of analytics & tools for eSports | — | 96 mo ago | Seed | Ivan Danishevsky Founder | 2018 | PHPLaravelLivewire+15 | — |
Top 8 Gaming companies in Ukraine
#1
Seed · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2017 · 47 employees$4Mraised▾
AI-based platform offfering to produce synthetic speech. It offers voice cloning software for content creators.
- Mar 2025Seed$921K
- Dec 2023Seed$1.9M
- Jan 2020Seed$1.5M
- Jul 2019Seed$120K
#2
Acquired · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2017 · 125 employees$9.5Mraised▾
DMarket is a blockchain-based platform for trading virtual assets. Users can buy or sell Steam blockchain items for USD and DMarket Blockchain items for DMC. Offers a blockchain explorer which displays transactions that have been performed on DMarket.
- Oct 2020Series A$3M
- Jun 2020Series A$6.5M
- Dec 2017ICO$19M
#3
Seed · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2017$5Mraised▾
DreamTeam is an eSports and Gaming recruitment platform which uses Blockchain and Smart Contracts. It is a transparent platform to connect players, managers, coaches, board members etc. The platform claims to support activities like sponsorships, media right sales, prize money, player transfers etc.
- Sep 2018Seed$5M
- Apr 2018Seed—
#4
Early Stage · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2010 · 82 employees$650Kraised▾
Ejaw Studio is a mobile game development studio based in Ukraine. Founded in 2014, the studio focuses on the development of casual games and has a portfolio of 6 games as on January 2017. Popular games from the studio include 'Goop Escape 2' - a platformer game and 'Intelli Joy' - a puzzle game. The studio also offers game development services.
#5
Deadpooled · Simferopol, Republic of Crimea · founded 2010 · 11 employees$300Kraised▾
Founded in 2010, Komar Games is a game development studio based in Ukraine. The studio focused on the development of casual games for mobile and social platforms and their first game 'The Secret of Hildegards' - a hidden object game was released in 2010. The studio is best know for its game 'Ravenhill' (2011,Facebook) - a horror adventure game. The company is working on an online MMORPG game 'Nebula' as of March, 2016.
- Jun 2010Seed$300K
#6
Deadpooled · Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast · founded 2013$60Kraised▾
Hypereight is based in Kiev, Ukraine. Founded in 2013, the company focuses on creating social free to play mobile games.The company is developing a casual mobile game called "Deep Space Farm".
- Jul 2013Seed$60K
#7
Funding Raised · Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast' · founded 2000 · 80 employees—raised▾
Founded in 2000, Frogwares is an independent game development studio, headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine. Thanks to the work of a talented team of 80 artists and programmers, our games are available for all major platforms: PC, Playstation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, as well as for older generation console systems. Frogwares is best known as the creators of the Sherlock Holmes detective series and The Sinking City, both widely recognized for its deep and engaging narrative and immersive investigation mechanics. Striving to improve and grow as artists and developers, we are now self-publishing our games.
#8
Seed · Kiev, Ukraine · founded 2018 · 25 employees—raised▾
Esports Charts is a provider of analytics & tools for the esports industry. It analyzes & provides a static report for esports development & live streaming platform. Provides filtered streaming infographics that extract details of the exact amount of viewers and subscribers growth on channels & social networks.
- 2018Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
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 Ukraine
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 27 Ukraine-affiliated papers.
- Vinnytsia National Technical University5
- Lviv Polytechnic National University4
- Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University3
- Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University3
- Dnipro University of Technology2
- Game engine2→4
Where gaming tech is researched across Ukraine
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
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.