Best Mobile Gaming Companies in Italy
The 51 best Mobile Gaming companies in Italy in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mangatar.
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Ranked: Best Mobile Gaming companies in Italy
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mangatar Developer of PC and mobile-based casual games | $1M | 129 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | — | — |
| 2 | Bad Seed Mobile games developer focusing on core gamers | $340K | 144 mo ago | Seed | Jacopo Musso Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 3 | FunGo Studios Mobile game developer | $217K | 181 mo ago | Deadpooled | Lorenzo Bellini Co-Founder | 2011 | — | — |
| 4 | Premium Chess Online gaming platform | — | 136 mo ago | Series A | — | 2009 | TypeScriptWindows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NET+9 | — |
| 5 | Spinvector Mobile games developer | — | 177 mo ago | Seed | Giovanni Caturano Founder & CEO | 2004 | — | — |
| 6 | Abyte Entertainment Indie game development studio | — | — | Unfunded | Giulio Marra Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+16 | — |
| 7 | AlmaBox Gaming company developing AR-games and technology | — | — | Funding Raised | Alessandro Febbrari Founder & General Manager | 2008 | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — |
| 8 | Artematica Developer of video games and software based out of Italy | — | — | Unfunded | Riccardo Cangini Founder | 1996 | — | — |
Top 5 Mobile Gaming companies in Italy
#1
Series A · Milano, Umbria · founded 2012 · 3 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Developer of PC and mobile-based casual games. The company develops casual and mid-core games on mobile devices, PC, and connected TVs. The company's games inlcude Dengen Chronicles, Little Briar Rose, Ninja Clone, and more.
- Oct 2015Series A$1.2M
- Feb 2013Seed—
#2
Seed · Milano, Umbria · founded 2014 · 12 employees$340Kraised▾
Bad Seed is an Italian mobile games developer focusing on casual games. They gained popularity with their first game Sheep Up! (published by PocketGems for mobile platforms) - a puzzle based casual game. Their other games include Sleep Attack (2014, iOS platform) - a tower defense game and The Beggars Ride (2015, iOS platform) a story-driven puzzle platformer.
- Jul 2014Seed$340K
#3
Deadpooled · Treviso, Veneto · founded 2011 · 6 employees$217Kraised▾
FunGo is a mobile game development studio based in Italy. The company focuses on the development of that develops location-based social games, mainly on mobile platform and has a portfolio of 4 games as on Jan 2016. Popular games include 'Fifteen' - a selfie puzzle game, 'District Dash' - a running platform game, 'Planet Hunt' - a shooting game.
- Jul 2011Seed$217K
#4
Series A · Bologna, Emilia-Romagna · founded 2009 · 2 employees—raised▾
Premium Chess is an online gaming platform that allows gamers to play chess in the VR arena. It is available on Windows, Linux, Android & iOS platform.
- Mar 2015Series A—
#5
Seed · Benevento, Campania · founded 2004 · 11 employees—raised▾
Spinvector is a mobile game developer and is also working on developing immersive experience through VR, AR & holograms. Has developed 6 games including "From Cheese" (puzzle game), "Bang!" (multiplayer board game) ," Axl Full Boost" (racing game) & "Vrasteroids" (mobile VR game for Samsung Gear VR). The company was founded in 2004 and was backed by IMI Fondi Chiusi in 2011.
- Oct 2011Seed—
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