Gaming Startups: survival, accelerators, and incubators

A Gaming Consultant engaged in a prominent Middle Eastern Mega-Project sought expertise to conduct a comprehensive regional and global benchmarking exercise focusing on gaming and tech startups.

To address this, the benchmarking process was divided into two primary phases: firstly, leveraging Advanced Web Search methodologies to gather average survival rate data for tech and gaming startups over a 10-year period globally. Secondly, identifying and evaluating key accelerators and incubators in the MENA region through targeted searches and additional press inquiries for enhanced insights.

The quick turnaround included retrieving success rate statistics globally and identifying key regional accelerators/incubators. Emphasizing transparency, the analysis encompassed historical financial trends and supplemented where necessary with alternative data sources to provide a comprehensive perspective.

Client Challenge

A Gaming Consultant from the Department of Media of a major Middle Eastern mega-project sought our assistance in analyzing the survival rates of tech and gaming startups, as well as the annual output of startups by gaming accelerators and incubators in the Middle East and globally.

Our Solution

Structured the benchmark in two parts, to first find the average survival rates of tech and gaming startups over a 10-year period through Advanced Web Search. For the second part, important accelerators/incubators in the MENA region were shortlisted based on the metrics specified by the client.
Leveraged complementary tools such as Press Search to provide additional insights on the economic environment and wider context of gaming and tech startups.

Outcome

Completed two independent analyses in parallel to ensure a quick turnaround time.

-Retrieved success rates’ statistics at a global and country level for startups in both the tech and gaming industries for a 10-year period.

-Identified key accelerators and incubators for gaming/tech startups at a regional level.

-Ensured 100% transparency of the research by clearly communicating the limitations faced during the execution and suggesting proxies.

Analyzed the historic financial trends faced by gaming/tech startups globally and suggested proxies

-Built a chronological analysis of quantitative and qualitative insights to understand the conditions affecting gaming/tech startups globally.

-Extracted additional insights for each accelerator/incubator identified as a proxy to provide alternative data points whenever data requested by the client turned out scarce.