AI gaming startup Astrocade raises $56M Series A and B led by Sequoia Capital and Sea to let users build games via text prompts

San Francisco-based AI gaming startup Astrocade raised $56M in combined Series A (led by Sea) and Series B (led by Sequoia Capital) funding, with additional investors including Google, Nvidia, LG Ventures, Dentsu Ventures, and Conviction Embed. The platform lets users create games using natural language AI prompts and has reached about 5M monthly active users with 140M game plays each month, hosting more than 75,000 games built by creators from 80 countries since launching in August. Cofounder Ali Sadeghian told Fortune that “our top creators are making thousands of dollars a month, they're literally making a living and their content is fun.” David Cahn, partner at Sequoia, said the platform's primary user base skews unexpectedly toward women aged 20 to 40 rather than the traditional young male gaming demographic, putting it in competition with Instagram as “a fun way to spend time.”