Gaming financings pass $2.5bn in strongest quarter of the past year

Gaming financing has passed $2.5 billion in Q2 2026, making it the strongest quarter of the past 12 months by PocketGamer.biz’s Drake Star coverage. The report points to 96 private funding rounds, driven by gaming AI, AdTech and hardware, with AppsFlyer raising more than $1 billion as the largest disclosed round. It is not pure mobile news, but mobile sits right in the middle of the trend because UA, analytics, AdTech and infrastructure are the plumbing of the app economy.

When capital flows into those systems, it eventually affects who can scale, who can advertise and who can survive the next user-acquisition storm.