Türkiye studio Rotatelab secures seed funding from Arcadia Gaming Partners and Laton Ventures

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Cube Land developer Rotatelab is the newest studio out of Türkiye to safe an funding spherical, PocketGamer.biz can reveal.

The seed funding spherical was co-led by Arcadia Gaming Partners and Laton Ventures, with participation from angel investor Mert Gür. The determine was not disclosed.

Rotatelab goals to make use of the funds to extend its scaling efforts and product growth. Its ambition is to turn into Türkiye’s subsequent unicorn.

The developer was based in 2020 by Abdurrahman Koçak, Salih Koçak and angel investor and co-founder Yunus Becit. Headquartered in Gaziantep University Technopark in southeast Türkiye, the developer operates a remote-first organisation and at present employs 21 folks throughout 15 cities.

The studio’s newest title, Cube Land, has surpassed two million downloads and hit the Top 80 of the US App Store high grossing charts.

Rotatelab’s earlier titles, which embody Sort Land, have accrued greater than 17 million lifetime installs.

The firm stated it has constructed its personal end-to-end AI infrastructure that spans your entire sport growth lifecycle for its video games. This contains AI-powered market evaluation, prototyping instruments to generate playable ideas, advertising and marketing automation and customized in-house brokers and regionally deployed AI programs to automate manufacturing workflows.

“Just getting started”

“We’ve spent practically a decade constructing video games collectively, studying from each launch, each setback and each success,” stated Rotatelab CEO and co-founder Abdurrahman Koçak. 

“Cube Land is the results of years of perseverance, resilience and relentless execution. We’re pleased with the crew we have constructed – an organisation spanning 15 cities that proves world-class sport studios do not need to be in-built a single metropolis. With the assist of Arcadia and Laton, we’re simply getting began.

“Our ambition is to construct one of many world’s main cell gaming firms and Türkiye’s subsequent gaming unicorn.”

Arcadia Gaming Partners MD Akın Babayiğit commented: “They are superior. Abdurrahman and Salih break all the principles they inform you about how sport growth ought to work. They should not in a shiny metropolis, they work distant, they don’t observe the herd, and that’s exactly the purpose. 

“They are true entrepreneurs and are incredible. Cube Land is the next big thing and this isn’t the only trick up their sleeve. I don’t think the world knows what’s cooking in that kitchen.”

Laton Ventures founding associate Görkem Türk added: “We’ve all the time believed that extraordinary sport firms are constructed by distinctive founders who preserve delivery, studying and bettering over a few years. What impressed us most about Rotatelab wasn’t simply the current success of its hit sport Cube Land, however the resilience and repeating success observe document of the crew. 

“Rotatelab is the proof of why we imagine Türkiye is a world cell gaming hub – not simply due to Istanbul, however as a result of distinctive expertise may be discovered throughout each nook of the nation. Their creativity, execution, ambition and talent to construct an distinctive distributed crew make them a singular and unparalleled crew we cherished to again.”