Good Job Games, a rapidly growing mobile game company based in Türkiye, announced it has secured $23 million in a seed funding round led by Menlo Ventures and Tripledot co-founder Akin Babayigit’s new games fund Arcadia to build a legacy entertainment company for players of all ages. And Good Job Games raised the large seed financing with a proven track record of popular games, Zen Match, Wonder Blast and Match Villains.
Founded by industry leaders Ilker Ilicali and Nazim Akmandil, Good Job Games has seen a lot of momentum as a developer and publisher since its bootstrapped founding. And in its first two years, it became one of the most successful hyper-casual publishers with over 3 billion downloads. The company has since sold its genre-defining game Zen Match, recently shifted its focus to innovating the match-3 category, and scaled the instant hit Match Villains.
The company now has over 100 developers, designers, and artists dedicated to maintaining, scaling, and expanding its entertainment portfolio.
Good Job Games is now the first investment from Arcadia, the new mobile games fund founded by Tripledot co-founder Akin Babayigit. And Babayigit is also known as a quiet force advising and backing the top game companies born from the robust game development sector in Türkiye.
KEY QUOTES:
“We are proud to have grown Good Job Games with no external investment thanks to our passionate and extraordinary team. Our success has always been powered by our team’s creativity, dedication, and craftsmanship to deliver exceptional games. We now also have great partners in Menlo Ventures and Arcadia supporting our next phase to scale our games and grow our player base. Our goal is to build a legacy entertainment company—one that creates genre-defining games with global appeal.”
– Ilker Ilicali, founder and CEO, Good Job Games
“At Menlo, we invest in gaming craftsmanship—and after playing over 1,000 levels of Match Villains, I can confidently say it’s the best match-3 game on the market. When you step into Good Job Games’ office, you instantly feel their relentless obsession with detail and player delight.”
– Amy Wu, Partner at Menlo Ventures (investor in Epic Games, 1047 Games, and Tripledot Studios)
“Good Job Games has stormed the match-3 category with Match Villains, which has incredible long term retention metrics that are rarely seen. They are the real deal and will prove to have staying power. Beyond this, Ilker and Nazim are truly generational entrepreneurs and incredible human beings, so partnering with them for the future was an absolute no-brainer.”
– Akin Babayigit
