Saudi VC Impact46 expands gaming portfolio with multi-studio investments

• Impact46 invests over $6.6 million in 5 gaming studios—Fahy, NJD, Game Cooks, Starvania, and Alpaka—as a part of its $40 million Gaming Fund launched in March 2024.
• Studios span cellular, PC, console, VR, and hybrid-casual sport growth, with culturally localised and globally interesting content material.
• This funding builds on earlier 2025 investments in Spoilz and Spekter Games, increasing Impact46’s gaming portfolio to seven lively firms.
• Investment aligns with Saudi Arabia’s National Gaming and Esports Strategy and Vision 2030, positioning the Kingdom as a world gaming hub.

Press launch:

Impact46 has introduced investments exceeding SAR 25 million in 5 gaming studios—Fahy, NJD, Game Cooks, Starvania, and Alpaka—as a part of its SAR 150 million Gaming Fund, launched in March 2024. The fund displays Impact46’s long-term dedication to backing high-potential founders shaping the way forward for digital content material and gaming experiences within the area.  

The studios span a various slate of gaming innovation, from culturally grounded cellular gameplay to immersive console/PC experiences and next-generation hybrid-casual motion video games, highlighting the artistic and technical depth rising from MENA’s sport growth ecosystem.

“We see gaming as more than a sector; it’s a language of youth, culture, and creation,” mentioned Basmah Alsinaidi, Managing Partner at Impact46. “Through these investments, we’re backing builders who aren’t just launching games but creating the infrastructure, stories, and platforms that define the next era of content in the region.”

This announcement builds on Impact46’s rising portfolio in gaming, following earlier 2025 investments in Spoilz, a cellular sport studio growing participating IPs, and Spekter Games, a next-gen studio bringing cellular video games to chat-based tremendous apps, seamlessly mixing conventional gameplay with Web3 incentive layers. Together, these 9 firms signify a brand new wave of MENA gaming ventures redefining how content material is created, distributed, and skilled throughout the area.

This momentum aligns with the Kingdom’s rise as a world chief in gaming and interactive leisure, in line with the National Gaming and Esports Strategy and Vision 2030’s push to diversify the economic system and allow homegrown innovation. From nationwide enabler applications such because the National Development Fund, Social Development Fund, CODE by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and Saudi Esports Federation, to international initiatives by the Esports World Cup Foundation and Savvy Games Group, Saudi Arabia is positioned to turn out to be a launchpad for the area’s gaming ecosystem.

About the startups:

• Fahy – A Saudi-based cellular sport growth studio crafting experiences which are immediately enjoyable but endlessly rewarding.
• NJD Games – A Saudi cellular sport studio that creates pleasure and lasting recollections by means of cellular gaming.
• Game Cooks – A dynamic sport growth and publishing studio specialising in Virtual Reality (VR), Mobile, and PC video video games. With a signature mix of motion, journey, and puzzle components, the studio has launched over 22 unique titles and earned quite a few worldwide awards for its creativity and innovation. Now proudly establishing its base in Riyadh, Game Cooks is getting into a brand new chapter—targeted on delivering localised, culturally tailor-made, and globally participating gaming experiences.
• Starvania – A Saudi indie sport studio devoted to creating fantasy universes from contemporary views, the place worlds are wealthy with thoughtfulness and galvanizing ideas. Specialises in PC and console video games.
• Alpaka – A cellular gaming studio producing and growing next-generation hybrid-casual video games within the motion style.
• Spoilz (earlier funding) – Games that spark pleasure and join cultures in every single place.
• Spekter Games (earlier funding) – A next-gen sport writer mixing Web2 and Web3 to supercharge video games at scale.