Overview
- Matiks said on Monday that a $10 million pre-Series A round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Ronnie Screwvala and existing backers, bringing the startup’s total funding to about $13.5 million.
- The company reported rapid growth in user activity, saying its daily users rose to more than 300,000 and 2.2 million people played 48 million games in September 2026, figures the startup provided to investors and press.
- Matiks plans to use the capital to scale engineering, hire for AI and product teams, prioritize initial expansion in the United States, and invest in localization for markets including Japan and South Korea.
- Product plans include an AI-powered creation engine that will let nontechnical users design and publish brain games, ongoing tests of subscriptions and in-game purchases for monetization, and further development of the experimental creator product Jelo.
- Investors cited fast product iteration, strong community engagement and early retention signals as reasons to back the company, while Matiks faces competition from larger AI creation platforms such as Google’s Playground as it pushes to make user-generated mind games a larger category.