Best Gaming Companies in Victoria, Australia
The 74 best Gaming companies in Victoria, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: mod.io.
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 Victoria
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mod.io Game development tool for modifying any games | $31M | 55 mo ago | Series A | Scott Reismanis Founder & CEO | 2017 | MediumTypeScriptGraphQL+19 | 4 launchs |
| 2 | Kinder World Mobile game development company | $9M | 48 mo ago | Seed | Christina Chen Co-Founder | 2022 | PHPLiteSpeedCloudflare+8 | — |
| 3 | Zero Latency Developer of casual games | $6M | 114 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | ContentfulTypeScriptGraphQL+26 | — |
| 4 | Metakey Developer of PC and console-based blockchain games | $4M | 49 mo ago | Seed | Mateen Soudagar Co-Founder and CEO | 2021 | Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+8 | — |
| 5 | Nitro Blockchain-based gaming | $3M | 101 mo ago | Funding Raised | Kin-Wai Lau CEO & Director | 2017 | — | — |
| 6 | CyBall Developer of an NFT-based blockchain game for PC | $2M | 54 mo ago | Acquired | Ezekiel Le Co-Founder | 2021 | — | — |
| 7 | iCandy Independent game publisher headquartered in Australia | $1M | 69 mo ago | Public | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — |
| 8 | Weyo Developer of interactive early learning apps for preschoolers | $741K | 51 mo ago | Seed | Stuart Berwick Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
Top 8 Gaming companies in Victoria
#1
Series A · South Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 39 employees$31Mraised▾
Game development tool for modifying any games. The tool enables game developers to modify their pre-developed games. Also offers various SDKs, game plugins, REST API, and other tools to game developers.
- Nov 2021Series A$26M
- Dec 2020Seed$4M
- Mar 2020Seed$1M
#2
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2022 · 22 employees$9Mraised▾
Mobile game development company. The company has developed a game called "Kinder world"- a game of houseplants, healing, and practicing kindness. The game is available for iOS and Android platforms.
- Jun 2022Seed$6.8M
#3
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2021$3.5Mraised▾
Developer of PC and console-based blockchain games
- Apr 2022Seed$3.5M
#4
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2014 · 7 employees$741.2Kraised▾
Developer of interactive early learning apps for preschoolers. These apps utilize stories, songs, games, and yoga to foster holistic development, focusing on phonics, reading, and emotional wellbeing. The content is designed by play and education experts to ensure optimal learning and engagement. Interactive elements, such as augmented reality filters, bring classic stories to life, encouraging active participation and a love of learning. A growth mindset is central to the app's design philosophy.
- Mar 2022Seed$741.2K
#5
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2021 · 12 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Developer of an NFT-based blockchain game for PC
- Dec 2021Seed$1.8M
#6
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2011$1.2Mraised▾
iCandy Interactive is an independent game publisher headquartered in Australia. It specializes in releasing games based on adventure, puzzle and action genres. Some of the games released by the company are "Crab War", "Alien Path", "Mobfish Hunter" and "Alien Hive". It publishes games for Android and iOS platforms. It has also won "Excellence in Gameplay Award 2017" award for its game development studio known as "Appxplore" at the 2nd International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) Southeast Asia. It generates revenue through advertisements and in-app purchases.
- Sep 2020Post IPO$1.2M
#7
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2014 · 118 employees$6Mraised▾
Developer of casual games. It develops games for PC and consoles. It develops virtual reality based games. It has created a virtual reality system where players can play the game in open space moving freely.
- Dec 2016Series A$5.2M
- 2014Seed$818.7K
- 2014Grant (prize money)$49.1K
#8
Funding Raised · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017$2.7Mraised▾
Nitro is a blockchain-based gaming ecosystem. The platform issues its native token NOX which will determine the revenue sharing model. Games submitted to the platform will be voted by the NOX users. The funded games will have to share their profits. All revenue-share will be stored in a vault, and distributed from time to time to the NOX holders. Nitro will also create a gaming marketplace to connect gamers, studios, financiers, publishers, marketers etc. NOX can be traded to a USD-pegged in-game currency NOD (1 NOD = 1 USD)
- Dec 2017ICO$2.7M
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
What Victoria researches in gaming tech
- Victoria University of Wellington9
- University of Victoria2
- Victoria School of Management1
Common questions
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