Best Mobile Companies in Scotland, United Kingdom
The 46 best Mobile companies in Scotland, United Kingdom in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Outplay Entertainment.
Our analysis of 127 Mobile companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Mobile companies in Scotland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Outplay Entertainment Video Game developer focusing on Casual games for Mobile and Web platforms | $9M | 146 mo ago | Series B | — | 2010 | PleskApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+16 | — |
| 2 | AdInMo In game advertising platform 24Tech top 32%Funding top 42%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 37% All 7 signals ▾Techtop 32% Fundingtop 42% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 37% Growthbottom 35% Marketbottom 27% Newsbottom 22% Tech: 43 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Funding: Raised $8.2M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 7 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 24/100 | $8M | 35 mo ago | Seed | Kristan Rivers CEO & Founder | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — |
| 3 | Tsumanga Game Publisher and Developer | $2M | 151 mo ago | Early Stage | Graeme Harvey CEO | 2012 | — | — |
| 4 | Serious Parody Game development studio | $2M | 171 mo ago | Deadpooled | Dan Hinkles CEO | 2010 | — | — |
| 5 | Tag Games Developer of mobile games for publishers, developers, and brand partners | $227K | 126 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2006 | Squarespace CommerceSquarespaceTypeScript+16 | — |
| 6 | Astrodreamer Studio Developer of PC and mobile-based casual games | — | 41 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 7 | Decidz Event planning and chat app | — | 124 mo ago | Deadpooled | Tom Williams Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — |
| 8 | A Fox Wot I Drew Mobile games development studio | — | — | Deadpooled | Dan Allan Co-Founder & Programmer | 2014 | — | — |
Top 7 Mobile companies in Scotland
#1
Seed · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2017 · 10 employees$8.2Mraised▾
In game advertising platform. It allows brands to engage with audiences by integrating image, audio, video, and rich media ads into the games. It includes a reporting feature that provides insights into the ad performance.
- Aug 2023Seed$2.5M
- Mar 2022Seed$3.1M
- May 2021Seed$1.2M
- Feb 2020Seed$1.2M
#2
Series B · Dundee, Scotland · founded 2010 · 128 employees$9Mraised▾
Outplay Entertainment is a Video Game developer focusing on Casual games for Mobile and Web platforms. They gained popularity with their games - Bubble Blaze - a match 3 bubble busting casual game for mobile platforms and Word Trick - a words based multiplayer casual game for mobile platforms. Other popular games from them include - Angry Birds POP (2014, iOS and Android platforms) - a tile matching game co-developed by Rovio based on the popular Angry Birds franchise.
- May 2014Series B$5M
- Nov 2012Series A$4M
#3
Early Stage · Glasgow, Scotland · founded 2012$2Mraised▾
Tsumanga studios is a Game Publisher and Developer based in Glasgow, UK. The studio has published 4 games as on August 2016 and is best known for the game 'Butterflix Adventures' from Winx Club Games. The studio holds the media rights for the Winx Club brand until 2019. The studio has also raised $2M in funding from Venture Capitalists in 2012.
- Jan 2014Grant (prize money)$13.2K
- Jun 2013Grant (prize money)$75K
#4
Deadpooled · Dundee, Scotland · founded 2010 · 11 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Serious Parody is a Dundee, UK based game development studio. The company focuses on the development of games for consoles and mobile platforms. Their first game 'Wresting Manager' (2011, iOS) is a strategy game where Players have to build a wrestling organisation from the ground up, hosting events to earn money and attract better wrestlers, buy championships, sign TV & PPV deals and then compete online in rating wars against other players. The company is working on a console game as on Jan, 2016.
- May 2012Seed$1.6M
#5
Acquired · Dundee, Scotland · founded 2006 · 56 employees$226.9Kraised▾
Developer of mobile games for publishers, developers, and brand partners. They provide mobile game development services from initial concept through to launch. The company builds mobile titles for various platforms. It collaborates with different entities to create gaming experiences.
- Feb 2016Grant (prize money)$35.5K
- Jan 2015Seed$226.9K
- Aug 2010Seed—
- Nov 2007Seed—
#6
Seed · Dundee, Scotland · founded 2021 · 4 employees—raised▾
Developer of PC and mobile-based casual games. It offers A Bonnie Odyssey a retro-puzzle mystery game available on Steam and Spolf a golf game which can be played on mobile.
- Mar 2023Seed—
#7
Deadpooled · Edinburgh, Scotland · founded 2015—raised▾
Decidz is an event planning app that lets users to plan events and share with their friends. The receivers of that plan will vote and suggest their own opinions on the plan. Users can involve in group chat to decide about the event so that the whole group members can plan together and meet. This app is backed by the founders of Skyscanner, a gaint in OTA market. It is also incubated by CodeBase incubator.
- Mar 2016Angel—
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