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About
Uken Games builds mobile games across a deliberately wide range of genres — trivia, casual, role-playing and sports — rather than specialising. It has been profitable from early on, which co-founder and CEO Chris Ye credits for surviving an expensive failure: in 2014, coming off a sixth-place finish on the Deloitte Fast 50, Uken spent 18 months and $3M with 25 people on two new titles before killing both. In November 2018 Uken sold Bingo Pop — its biggest hit — and 42 of its people to Jam City, which opened a Toronto studio around them; Uken kept 68 staff and the rest of its catalogue. The studio has been named one of Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers and a GTA Top Employer for 2026.
Backers
Bootstrapped and profitable from early on, per Chris Ye on the TechTO stage in 2016.
Quick answers
What does Uken Games do?
It makes mobile games in Toronto — licensed trivia titles like Jeopardy! World Tour and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, plus its own casual and competitive games.
Who founded Uken Games?
Chris Ye and Mark Lampert, in Toronto in 2009. Ye is still co-founder and CEO.
How does Uken pick what to build?
Unusually for a studio its size, it competes across genres rather than picking one. Ye has said the company's profitability is what let it walk away from $3M of in-progress games in 2014 without going under.