Astrocade Raises $56M in Series A and Series B Funding

The company plans to use the funds to grow its team, invest more in its community, improve its generative AI technology to make it faster and easier to turn ideas into playable games—including developing AI agents for tasks like coding and asset creation—and support global growth by scaling the platform to handle more users while keeping it stable and engaging.

Before launching, the team behind Astrocade spent years building a platform that lets anyone turn an idea into a playable game in minutes using generative AI. While they expected some interest, they did not anticipate hundreds of millions of plays each month, with constant new content driving users to return and share it with others.

Games are already a powerful way for people to connect, compete, and express themselves, but creating them has traditionally required technical skills, tools, and resources that many people don’t have. Astrocade is changing that by making it easy for anyone to turn ideas into playable games, enabling teachers, students, and friends to create and share their own experiences.

As this becomes more accessible, people are not just playing games but creating meaningful content. At a time when many are seeking alternatives to passive, scroll-based platforms, games offer a more engaging and creative outlet that combines fun, learning, social interaction and self expression.

The team at Astrocade believes that the success of any product comes from its users, not just the technology. They see this every day as thousands of creators share their ideas on the platform. At the same time, players around the world enjoy their games, with events like weekly game jams and standout creators reaching hundreds of millions of plays, showing how people from different backgrounds are shaping what the platform can become.

At Astrocade, many of the creators are not traditional game developers but people with ideas who previously had no easy way to build games, including beginners with no coding experience, students, and first-time creators, and some are already earning significant income while expressing themselves in ways that were not possible before.

This vision reflects the background of founders Amir Sadeghian and Ali Sadeghian, Iranian-American brothers who grew up across different parts of the world and built careers in AI rather than gaming, with Amir earning a PhD from Stanford and Ali working as an AI researcher at Google. Their unique perspective helped them create a new kind of entertainment platform built from the ground up.

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“If you go into a classroom and ask ‘how many people play games?’ everyone says ‘I play,’” said Ali Sadeghian, Astrocade cofounder. “If you ask ‘how many of you want to create games’, 80% will say they want to create a game. But if you ask, ‘How many of you have made a game?’ only one or two people will raise their hands. For a long time, it wasn’t possible. This makes it possible.”

“The target user for this company is very unintuitive,” said David Cahn, partner at Sequoia. Women between 20 and 40 are the best users. You’d think it’s younger boys—10 to 15, that classic gaming segment—but that’s not really who this is…In that sense, I think it competes more against Instagram, where it’s just a fun way to spend time.”

About Astrocade

Founded by Amir Sadeghian and Ali Sadeghian, Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anyone to create, improve, and share games with friends and the wider community.

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