Kurukshetra is the first game coming from Studio Sirah.
Kurukshetra: Ascension is the first game coming from Studio Sirah.
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Studio Sirah raises $830K for India-first mobile games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Studio Sirah has raised $830,000 for its midcore, India-first mobile games. India-focused game venture capital fund Lumikai led the round.

The Bangalore-based Studio Sirah will use the money to make its first game, Kurukshetra: Ascension, a card battler based on India’s 5,000-year-old epic myths.

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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.