Akin Babayigit

Managing Director @ Arcadia || Co-founder & Board Member @ Tripledot Studios

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Nov 2024
TaleMonster is a global mobile game company driven by a genuine desire to create unforgettable experiences for millions of players. We aim to redefine what is casual in mobile gaming by putting the passion within us at the heart of everything we create.
Investor
Nov 2024
We are developing an AI-driven simultaneous speech interpreter designed to connect people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Our mission is to revolutionize global communication, making it more accessible and easier for everyone. We aim to contribute to a world where anyone can speak and understand any language with an intuitive AI tool. We envision a world where any creator can deliver their content in multiple languages and reach global audience. Our research team is focused on creating AI models for real-time speech-to-speech interpretation. We optimize for zero translation latency, superhuman translation quality, and the generation of realistic, emotionally resonant voices.
Investor
Apr 2024
Our mission is to architect AI that learns and interacts like humans. Try Sonic and Ink at https://play.cartesia.ai
Investor
Apr 2024
Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. Were on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.
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Mar 2024
We believe that your next favorite human... isnt.
Investor
Nov 2023
Created by sports fans, for sports fans. 🏟 Join us and play responsibly on Omada. ✨
Investor
Sep 2023
Layer is the number one productivity tool for gaming creators. Whether creating solo or working in a team, creators of any skill level can train the AI using their own art work and create infinite new variations in 2D, 3D, Video and soon Audio formats. Layer enables gaming creators, from artists to developers, to ship games faster overall and run them more effectively by generating better monetization and marketing art. Layer currently serves 100s of gaming creators of any size, globally.
early stageMedia Production
Investor
Aug 2023
Building the next generation of casual puzzle games
Investor
Dec 2022
We are a fully remote mobile games company co-founded by industry veterans focusing on casual games.
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Dec 2022
The ultimate #GenerativeAI machine for creating high-quality, style-consistent assets. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/scenario
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Nov 2022
Million Victories is a fast growing company run by passionate gamers who want to share their love for the industry through meaningful game experiences. We are working on expanding and improving Million Lords, our first game with more than 1 million downloads and 200K monthly players. The studio is also currently developing its second game but you’ll need to join us to learn more. The game is played all around the world and has its biggest dedicated player communities in the US, France, the UK, Germany, Brazil, Spain and Turkey. Supported by experienced backers and industry veterans, we are currently investing in expanding our player base and hiring more talents for Million Lords. Founded in 2017 we are currently based in Lyon, France with a diverse team of 32 employees from different cultural and ethnic origins. Discover the studios daily life @millionvictories!
Investor & Advisor
Oct 2022
‏Telescope Labs is a category leader of Analysis solutions, offering a state-of-the-art Decision Intelligence Framework that seamlessly integrates with organizational databases, eliminating the need for SQL or excessive dashboards. This approach empowers companies to unlock the full potential of their data resources effortlessly, extracting valuable insights and real-time intelligence across all operational domains, regardless of scale or complexity
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Apr 2022
Cypher is a mobile interactive entertainment company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story.
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Sep 2021
Agave Games is a mobile gaming company that primarily focuses on casual puzzle genre. Our office is located right in the center of Istanbul, and hosts some of the most talented individuals in Turkey. We collect innovative ideas and transform them into mobile games that are played all around the world.
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Jun 2021
Founded at 2020, Whalo is a new and upcoming mobile games company. Our goal is to reinvent casual multiplayer games.
early stageComputer Games
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Managing Director
Feb 2025
Founder-first, always: We’ve been in your shoes—scaling from zero to a global success. We know what it takes, and we’re here to help with the challenges that actually move the needle. ​​ Execution Over Theory: Strategy is easy; building is hard. We roll up our sleeves to help with hiring, user acquisition, monetization, and the real problems founders face every day. ​ Partners You’ll Actually Enjoy Working With: No ego, no agenda—just people who care deeply about your success and are always in your corner.
2024
Investor
Nov 2024
TaleMonster is a global mobile game company driven by a genuine desire to create unforgettable experiences for millions of players. We aim to redefine what is casual in mobile gaming by putting the passion within us at the heart of everything we create.
Investor
Nov 2024
We are developing an AI-driven simultaneous speech interpreter designed to connect people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Our mission is to revolutionize global communication, making it more accessible and easier for everyone. We aim to contribute to a world where anyone can speak and understand any language with an intuitive AI tool. We envision a world where any creator can deliver their content in multiple languages and reach global audience. Our research team is focused on creating AI models for real-time speech-to-speech interpretation. We optimize for zero translation latency, superhuman translation quality, and the generation of realistic, emotionally resonant voices.
Investor
Apr 2024
Our mission is to architect AI that learns and interacts like humans. Try Sonic and Ink at https://play.cartesia.ai
Investor
Apr 2024
Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. Were on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.
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