Our Entrepreneurs
Sidar Şahin
Peak Games
“I saw an opportunity to develop popular social games customized for emerging market populations.”
- Country
- Turkey
- Industry
- Technology
- Employees
- 85
- Year selected
- 2011
- partner
- Hakan Baş
- Website
Company Snapshot
Peak Games is taking online gaming in the Middle East to unprecedented heights. Founded in October 2010 by one of Turkey’s top internet entrepreneurs, Sidar Sahin, and former Endeavor intern, Hakan Bas, Peak Games is bringing top quality Facebook games to emerging markets. Today Peak has two business lines: translating games and adding local elements to change their culture (“Publishing”), and developing games (“In-house development”). By October 2011, more than a third of Turkey’s 30.7 million Facebook users had played a Peak game and it was already among the top ten gaming companies globally with 4 million Daily Active Users (DAU). Peak is well on track to become the top developer of social games for emerging markets around the world.
Links
- Wall Street Journal: "Investors Look To Turkey, Middle East For Next Wave of Social Games"
- Venture Beat: "Peak Games Raises $5M for Social Gaming"
- CrunchBase: Profile of Peak Games
- Social games blog: Company spotlight and interview
- Inside Social Games: Company feature
- Gamasutra: "Peak Games Raises $11.5M For Emerging Markets"
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