1,538 Gaming companies in India, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.
1,538companies tracked
$3.2Bdisclosed funding
122hiring right now
468events · 24 months
19,496news articles · 12 months
Who leads Gaming in India
Shows 1,538 Indian gaming firms, highlighting which are hiring, best funded and most covered, with 122 hiring now and 171 having disclosed funding rounds.
The Gaming market map of India: what these companies actually do
Breaks down product sub‑categories and revenue models, noting the largest groups like gaming tech (1,448 firms) and the most common models such as subscription (948 firms).
IPOModern Times Group (MTG) has confirmed that its India-based subsidiary PlaySimple has filed for an initial public offering in Mumbai valued at up to ₹31.5 billion ($334.8 million).2026-04-28
FundingThe Bengaluru-based studio behind cricket game Hitwicket has secured $20 million in user acquisition (UA) funding from Metica, a London-based growth financing firm.2026-04-27
M&AAuckland-based software development and technology services company RUSH has acquired specialist digital services firm Cucumber to expand its presence in the agriculture and utilities sectors.2026-04-24
FundingLightFury Games, a AAA-focused game-tech studio, has raised $11 million (approx. ₹103 crore) in a pre-Series A funding round led by Blume Ventures, V3 Ventures, MIXI, and Times Internet, with participation from Indian cricketers such as MS Dhoni, Jasprit Bumrah, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Tilak Varma, Sai Sudharsan, and Hardik Pandya.2026-04-23
FundingSpill Games Raises $3.1 Mn in Seed Round2026-04-22
IPONodwin Gaming, a subsidiary of India's only listed mobile gaming firm Nazara Technologies Ltd, is looking to raise over $100 million and has inducted Manish Agarwal to its board as a non-executive director as it prepares for an initial public offering (IPO).2026-04-14
FundingGaming company Nazara Technologies has announced a Rs 500 crore fundraise through a preferential issue of warrants , according to a regulatory filing on Monday.2026-04-07
M&Athe acquisition of EverMerge, a popular merge puzzle game from Big Fish Games, a subsidiary of Aristocrat Leisure.2026-02-05
M&ADelhi NCR-based gaming startup Zupee has acquired Mumbai-based microdrama startup Vertical TV to strengthen its short-video offering, sources told Inc42.2026-02-03
ProductDream Sports, the parent company of Dream11, has officially launched DreamStreet, an AI-powered stock broking platform aimed at transforming how Indians invest in financial markets.2026-05-05
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Gaming company in India was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
Ex-Founder June Gaming, TapToLearn, June Infrastructure. COEP Technological University BE 1999
Where the founders studied
alma mater on record for 119 of 985 founders
IIT Delhi13
IIT Bombay10
IIT Kharagpur10
IIT Guwahati7
Indian School of Business7
IIT Roorkee7
BITS Pilani6
IIT Madras5
Where they worked before
a previous employer on record for 30 of 985 founders
Microsoft10
McKinsey3
Amazon3
Google3
Paypal2
Bain2
Cisco2
Flipkart1
Founders flagged as repeat founders
of 885 founders with a profile on this page
13
carry a repeat-founder flag
flagged as repeat founders13
no repeat-founder flag872
Women and men among the founders
first names matched for 817 of 985 founders
10%
of matched founders are women
women81
men736
Inferred from first names, using 119 million people who state their own gender: a first name counts only where at least 20 of them share it and at least 90% of those share the same gender. The other 168 founders go in neither column.
Radar
Look up the people behind Gaming companies in India
Search founders, executives and operators by company, role and location.
Gaming jobs in India: who is hiring and what they ask for
Lists 212 job postings from 86 employers in the past year, with top skills like Python and Unity and a median advertised salary of $8 k per year.
212postings · last 12 months
383postings tracked overall
86employers advertising
$8kmedian advertised salary/yr (n=126)
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Gaming employers in India put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
python42▲
javascript33▲
unreal engine27▲
unity24▲
photoshop18▲
java17▲
rest apis17▲
communication skills17▲
product management16▲
aws16▲
What level are these roles?
Entry4
Intern36
Senior64
Lead35
Manager51
Most advertised titles
Game Designer8
Associate Product Manager6
Software Development Engineer In Test Ii6
Unity Developer5
Senior Software Development Engineer4
Associate Product Manager Ii4
What Gaming research is working on
Indexes 7,757 academic papers, of which 6,148 identify opportunities, 318 note common problems, and 91 issue cautions.
How this field talks about itself
Gaming papers (gold) against all published research (grey)
Breakthrough42.3% · 26.3%1.6×
Promising36.9% · 37.5%≈ par
Descriptive11.6% · 17.3%0.7×
Problem-identifying4.0% · 9.7%0.4×
Comparative3.9% · 3.9%≈ par
Cautionary1.2% · 4.3%0.3×
Gaming literature runs 1.6× more “breakthrough” than science at large (42.3% vs 26.3% baseline).
“Creating Interactive and Realistic Augmented Reality Experiences”
Opportunities · theme 07
Gaussian Splatting Techniques
234 papers · 4.2% of this block
▲ +89% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Papers introduce Gaussian‑based methods for dynamic scene rendering and optimization.
Gaussian · Rendering · Real-time rendering · Gaussian process
“4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering”
Which of these themes are growing fastest
Tracks how the share of research themes has shifted worldwide between 2022 and 2025.
Problems
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
Advanced Rendering Techniques▲+23%
Game Engine Integration Issues▼-2%
Real‑Time Rendering Constraints▼-17%
Realistic Natural Scene Rendering▼-32%
Engine Selection and Development▼-48%
Cautions
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
Hybrid Raster‑Ray Techniques▲+38%
Perception in Virtual Reality▲+26%
Quality vs. Performance Trade‑offs▼-32%
Educational Use of Game Engines▼-44%
Opportunities
how much more (or less) of the world’s research on this subject each theme took up, 2022→2025
gaining sharelosing share
Gaussian Splatting Techniques▲+89%
Immersive AR/VR Experiences▲+8%
Game Engine‑Based Simulations▲+5%
Terrain Rendering Innovations▲+5%
Volume Rendering Advances▼-9%
GPU‑Accelerated Rendering▼-20%
Real‑Time Global Illumination▼-28%
Indian institutions active in this field include Microsoft Research · Chitkara University · Samsung · Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur · Intel · Regional Medical Research Center, with researchers such as Lei Yang, Yu-Chiu Tse, Pedro V. Sander, Jason Lawrence, Diego Nehab, S. Pratap Singh.
Prism
Go deeper on Gaming research and innovation
Research themes, patent activity and the companies commercialising them, in one place.
About this data: built from Fliar's company, founder, funding, hiring, jobs, news and research trackers, covering India. Counts are of companies we track, not of every company that exists. Updated August 2026.
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