Graffiti Games will publish Robi's Blue Fire.

Graffiti Games raises $1.5 million for indie game publishing

Graffiti Games has raised $1.5 million for indie game publishing. The money will help the Vancouver, Canada-based publisher launch titles such as Blue Fire from Argentina’s Robi Studios.

The non-brokered private placement brought money in from individual investors and it values the company at $4.5 million, said CEO Alex Josef in an interview with GamesBeat. Josef started the company three years ago with cofounder Mihalis Belantis.

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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.