Spyke Games
Istanbul, TR · 2 known investors
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Spyke Games is a mobile gaming company that develops games for players. It operates in the mobile gaming industry.
Also known as Spyke · Spyke Games · Spyke Games Oyun Yazılım ve Pazarlama A.Ş. · Spyke Yazılım Anonim Şirketi
Founders & leadership

Investors · 2
How we know: Griffin Gaming Partners's portfolio page · a partner's Signal profile · funding news · businesswire.com · the VCSheet dataset · research · youtube.com · Not right? Tell us
Also in the syndicate · 1
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$55M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2022–2024
- $55MSeed RoundJan 2022 · 3 sources
Griffin Gaming Partners (lead)
Source ↗
Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Spyke Games, operating legally as Spyke Yazılım Anonim Şirketi (also referenced as Spyke Games Oyun Yazılım ve Pazarlama A.Ş.), is a mobile gaming company headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. The company designs and develops mobile games distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play, and describes its focus as casual and social titles built around data-driven game design, visual aesthetics and character-driven play for solo and social audiences.
Its published titles include Yarn Loop, a puzzle game in which players match colored bobbins and manage their capacity to clear handcrafted yarn boards, and Tile Busters, a free-to-play casual puzzle game combining tile-matching, sudoku and mahjong mechanics with a town-completion progression layer. Earlier titles reported in press coverage include Royal Riches, released in 2021 as the company's first game, and Blitz Busters. The company was founded in 2020 and is categorized across gaming, mobile and publishing segments, with a headcount reported in the 11-50 range.
Spyke's internal culture materials describe an Istanbul office, employee choice of hardware and software tooling, fully paid private health insurance, and team events. The company recruits directly through its own site, processing applicant data under Turkish personal data protection legislation.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Spyke Games went on to found or lead other companies.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsTurkish mobile game developer Spyke Games received an investment of approximately $50 million from Moon Active, a game development company.
$50M source ↗
Spyke Games closed a $55 million seed round led by Santa Monica-based Griffin Gaming Partners, reported as the largest seed round raised by a company with a female CEO in the gaming industry. The company said it would use the capital to fund the launch of its first title and grow its team.
$55M source ↗
Spyke Games released its first game, Royal Riches, in 2021, with an official launch reported to follow.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Spykegamesspykegames.com · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Spyke Games do?
- Istanbul-based mobile gaming company developing free-to-play casual and social puzzle games.
- Who founded Spyke Games?
- Spyke Games was founded by Barkin Basaran, Fuat Coşkun, Mithat Madra, Rina Onur Sirinoglu.
- Who are Spyke Games's investors?
- Spyke Games's investors include Griffin Gaming Partners.
- How much funding has Spyke Games raised?
- Spyke Games has disclosed $55M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Spyke Games headquartered?
- Spyke Games is headquartered in Istanbul, TR.




