Hakan Bas

Hakan Bas built one of mobile gaming's most capital-efficient unicorns from a Levent district studio, guiding Dream Games to a $2.75 billion valuation with a single flagship title. Royal Match, launched in 2021, surpassed 200 million downloads globally and at peak generated an estimated $10 million in daily revenue — outperforming most Western puzzle competitors and generating 50% higher player retention than the industry average. Bas achieved this without diversifying into a multi-title portfolio, a strategy nearly every major competitor pursues, keeping development resources intensely focused on one product. With approximately 200 employees producing that output, Dream Games' revenue per employee is benchmarked well above the typical mobile gaming studio, where the industry average sits closer to $500,000 annually, and is 3 times higher than Moon Active's employee productivity. A $155 million Series B in 2021, led by IVP and Index Ventures, validated the focused model and cemented Istanbul's reputation as a credible node in the global gaming industry.