Match Masters is a growing match-3 puzzle game.
Match Masters is a growing match-3 puzzle game.
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Candivore raises $12 million to boost Match Masters puzzle game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Candivore has raised $12 million to fund growth for the company’s games such as Match Masters, a mobile match-3 puzzler.

The mobile game combines match-3 gameplay with a competitive player-vs.-player twist. The title has more than a million monthly active users who play more than five million daily matches. Match-3 games like Candy Crush Saga are the most prominent subgenre in the U.S. iPhone game market, accounting for 21% of the market’s revenue, according to mobile game insight and analytics firm GameRefinery.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.