Best Gaming Companies in United Arab Emirates
The 110 best Gaming companies in United Arab Emirates in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: RACA.
Gaming in the United Arab Emirates is moving faster than the funding numbers alone suggest. Our directory tracks 110 companies with $81M in total disclosed funding, and the standout is RACA at $16M, followed by 5th Scape at $7M, with The Game, Prom, Play AI and Playgama rounding out the top tier. No unicorns yet, but the investor roster, Avstar, MH Ventures, 316VC, BCA Investments and Lupa X Capital, tells you this market is being watched closely. Median install growth is running at roughly +11% year-on-year across 23 tracked gaming apps, which is the kind of quiet momentum that precedes louder rounds.
The global picture gives you the wider frame: the UAE gaming market is riding a broader wave projected at a 9.24% CAGR, driven by AR and VR adoption and habits that stuck after pandemic-era distancing. I'd also flag that hardware appetite is a real signal here, with gaming laptops and high-performance GPUs dominating search and coverage trends this quarter. Regulatory pressure on loot boxes is one structural factor worth watching as UAE studios scale. And globally, moves like Nodwin's $55M Starladder acquisition show how fast consolidation is happening around esports infrastructure, a template UAE players are likely eyeing.
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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 United Arab Emirates
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RACA Online community-driven decentralized autonomous organization offering a metaverse economy | $16M | 38 mo ago | Series B | 2021 | — | Node.jsTailwind CSSNext.js+14 | — |
| 2 | 5th Scape VR-based social platform | $7M | 24 mo ago | Seed | 2023 | Anoj Kumar Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsFirebaseEmotion+29 | 1 launch |
| 3 | Legion Network App-based platform for gaming and the NFT marketplace | $5M | 50 mo ago | Funding Raised | 2021 | Athar Ahmed Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowZendeskSlick+11 | — |
| 4 | The Game AI-driven cloud gaming platform for the web3 industry | $5M | 16 mo ago | Series A | 2022 | Osman Masud Co-Founder & CEO | ReactReact RouterLenis+4 | — |
| 5 | XBorg Decentralized gaming platform | $5M | 35 mo ago | Series A | 2022 | Louis Regis Founder & CEO | WebflowThree.jsChart.js+13 | — |
| 6 | Prom Gaming NFT marketplace and rental | $5M | 28 mo ago | Seed | 2018 | — | SentryNode.jsMUI+13 | — |
| 7 | Zone NFT-based trading platform for games | $4M | 52 mo ago | Seed | 2021 | Adi Mishra Founder & CEO | BootstrapUnpkgCloudflare+6 | — |
| 8 | Play AI Game monetization platform | $4M | 24 mo ago | Seed | 2024 | Ramees PS CEO | Radix UITailwind CSSshadcn/ui+16 | — |
| 9 | Devomon Online platform offering NFT-based games | $4M | 28 mo ago | Funding Raised | 2023 | Sammy G Co-Founder | — | — |
| 10 | Kingdomverse Developer of a decentralized gaming metaverse platform | $4M | 40 mo ago | Seed | 2022 | — | — | — |
| 11 | Playgama Provider of online gaming platform | $3M | 18 mo ago | Seed | 2023 | Dmitry Kachmar Founder | SentryGoogle Sign-inVue.js+23 | 1 launch |
| 12 | Dubai Verse Cup Metaverse platform for horseracing | $3M | 33 mo ago | Seed | 2022 | Vincent Isik CEO | — | — |
| 13 | Nunu Provider of NFT-based virtual world game | $3M | 50 mo ago | Funding Raised | 2021 | Matej Boda Co-Founder | — | — |
| 14 | Cryptomeda NFT-based gaming platform | $3M | 57 mo ago | Seed | 2021 | Martin Hromek Co-Founder | — | — |
| 15 | LandRocker NFT-based space exploration game | $2M | 26 mo ago | Seed | 2021 | Hamid Fathalian Founder & CEO | SentryTypeScriptNode.js+24 | — |
| 16 | MegaMod Browser-based multiplayer platform that focuses on user-generated content | $2M | 24 mo ago | Seed | 2021 | Alexey Kostarev Co-Founder | FirebaseNginxHeroku+7 | — |
| 17 | Katana Inu NFT-based trading platform for digital games | $2M | 53 mo ago | Funding Raised | 2021 | Marwan Haddad Founder & CEO | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+17 | — |
| 18 | Born To Die Game Website focused on providing online games | $2M | 40 mo ago | Seed | 2022 | Harsha MV Co-Founder | — | — |
| 19 | U-topia Provider of a decentralized payment platform with AI-powered crypto trading companion | $850K | 26 mo ago | Seed | 2021 | Jeremy Mahieu Co-Founder | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+16 | — |
| 20 | Unnyhog Mobile Games developer | $480K | 109 mo ago | Deadpooled | 2015 | Pavel Ignatov CEO & Founder | — | — |
| 21 | 99Starz Provider of Web3 asset management and gaming ecosystem solutions | $479K | 54 mo ago | Funding Raised | 2021 | Luca Lamberti CEO | — | — |
| 22 | Goama Online gaming platform for mobile games | $450K | 48 mo ago | Seed | 2017 | Taro Araya Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — |
| 23 | Arrland Provider of NFT-based multi-player battle game | $300K | 25 mo ago | Funding Raised | 2021 | Dominik Szopa Co-Founder | SanityNode.jsReact+11 | — |
| 24 | Babil Games Publisher of mobile-based mid-core genres | $150K | 168 mo ago | Acquired | 2012 | — | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+22 | 1 job opening |
Top 12 Gaming companies in United Arab Emirates
#1
Series A · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2022$5Mraised▾
AI-driven cloud gaming platform for the web3 industry. The ecosystem allows gamers to participate, play, and earn. The platform offers a token that is utilized for tournaments, fantasy leagues, buying NFTs, and merchandise. It leverages blockchain technology to provide metaverse gaming experiences. Features include gamification, digital twins, and management of digital assets such as identities, personas, NFTs, and digital tokens.
- Feb 2025Series A$10M
- Dec 2022Seed$5M
#2
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2023$3Mraised▾
Provider of online gaming platform. It offers various categories of games. The portfolio of games includes Cannoneer-2 Constant Movement, Home Rush The Fish Fight, imposter smashers, Cat vs Kripotians, and many more.
- Dec 2024Seed$3M
#3
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2023$7.2Mraised▾
VR-based social platform. It develops a decentralized immersive virtual world where users can play various games, access education content, and watch movies. It also develops VR hardware.
- May 2024Seed$6M
- Mar 2024Seed$1.1M
#4
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2024$4.3Mraised▾
Game monetization platform. It is a first modular chain for AI in gaming, enabling creators to deploy Gaming AI, players to monetize the gameplay. Users can stream there gameplay to help build AI that helps to earn rewards.
- May 2024Seed$4.3M
#5
Series B · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2021 · 34 employees$16Mraised▾
Online community-driven decentralized autonomous organization offering a metaverse economy. It offers a play-to-earn economy where users can hatch, collect, train, and battle other players with NFT characters. Purchase or sell metaverse land, and other NFT assets in the marketplace.
- Apr 2023Series B$16M
- Aug 2021ICO$72.4K
#6
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2018 · 25 employees$4.8Mraised▾
Gaming NFT marketplace and rental. The platform meets the needs of players, metaverse enthusiasts, NFT owners, guilds, and games. It allows users to rent gaming assets without any collateral or lend out their assets to other players to make an additional profit, purchase any NFT in monthly installments, trade and exchange NFT assets from various games & manage NFT assets across all the platforms, and view statistics.
- Feb 2024Angel—
- May 2019ICO$4.8M
#7
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2021$1.9Mraised▾
Browser-based multiplayer platform that focuses on user-generated content. It allows creators to build and share their own virtual instances for game development without needing coding or drawing skills..
- Jun 2024Seed$1.9M
#8
Funding Raised · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2023$3.8Mraised▾
Online platform offering NFT-based games. It offers metaverse games, card games, NFT marketplace, NFT staking, and more.
- Jan 2024ICO$3.8M
#9
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2021$2.5Mraised▾
NFT-based space exploration game. It offers a Play to earn game about discovery and space exploration where players can mint planets, discover materials and blueprints, fight and conquer planets, play survival games with teams, and more. Users can also craft NFTs, stake-owned planets, and more.
- Apr 2024Seed$2.5M
#10
Series A · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2022$5Mraised▾
Decentralized gaming platform. It offer a gaming passport where players can play the games, unlock achievements, and earn rewards. It is also involved in partnerships and tournaments within the gaming community.
- Jul 2023Series A$5M
#11
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2022$3Mraised▾
Metaverse platform for horseracing. It offers an immersive horse-racing world based on a play-to-earn model. It allows players to race, breed, and trade virtual horses. It is compatible with Android and iOS devices.
- Sep 2023Seed$3M
#12
Seed · Dubai, Dubai · founded 2021$850Kraised▾
Provider of a decentralized payment platform with AI-powered crypto trading companion. It facilitates payments and offers tools for managing digital assets. The platform provides savings on transaction fees for merchants and combines the security of Web2 with the decentralization of Web3. It offers features such as global payments, risk management, and settlements. The ecosystem includes an AI-powered trading companion, a utility token for rewards, and a wallet connecting decentralized applications with cross-chain support. It also provides a loyalty program where users can earn rewards and shop from various brands.
- Apr 2024Seed$850K
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