Playruo raises €2.1 million to become the leading platform for testing and sharing video games via streaming

Backed by Ventech, Kameha Ventures, Maxime Demeure, Nicolas Beraud, and the Blast Club, among others, the company also announced the signing of strategic partnerships with major players in the industry.

Paris, France – April 8, 2026 – Playruo, a professional cloud gaming solution for video game studios and publishers, has announced it has completed a €2.1 million funding round.

Led by investment funds Kameha Ventures and Blast Club, this new funding round will accelerate the large-scale commercialization of Playruo’s services:

• Instant game playtests
• QA and product approval
• Previews and reviews for the press
• Game streamers specific marketing operations
• Secure sharing of builds between studios and publishers or investors
• Playable demos accessible without downloading from ads and web pages

All these services are manageable with maximum flexibility and complete security, without requiring any effort on the part of the studios or publishers.

This funding round therefore marks the transition from a market validation phase to a phase of international business expansion.

A unique proposal to better face a challenging context

Within an industry facing increased competition and a challenging environment, Playruo positions itself as a solution to unrisk video game development and publishing. After all, the best way to ensure a game’s quality, validate its audience, and introduce it to players remains simple: put it in the hands of players. And now it’s available instantly, via streaming, and with just one click, anywhere in the world.

​​To achieve this, Playruo has developed proprietary technology that enables games to be streamed instantly directly to the browser. This allows players to try out a video game instantly, with just one click, on any device.

For publishers and studios, this technology can be leveraged at every stage of a game’s lifecycle:

• Facilitating playtests and QA during development: instant access ahead (download, patch, configuration, support) and during the test (one link + one click = one test), all with maximum security against leaks and reduced logistical friction
  
  
• Facilitating press and influencer previews ahead of launch: no more need to send keys or request time-consuming downloads and installations; the experience is controlled and activation is simplified… And why not allow a streamer to let their audience try out the game during their actual livestream?
  
  
• Increased engagement through playable ads at launch: with its unique clickable ads that allow players to instantly access games directly in their web browsers (without any downloads or installations) Playruo brings to the PC gaming industry what is already standard in the mobile gaming world. This is an innovation the industry has been waiting for, and a technical challenge that Playruo has successfully overcome.

A new 2026 key partnership with PulluP Entertainment

As evidence of this momentum, the Playruo team is also pleased to announce the signing of a strategic partnership with publisher PulluP Entertainment, effective this year. Playruo will provide its playtesting, QA, and press preview tools for select titles published by Focus Entertainment and Dotemu.

These two industry leaders, known for hit titles such as A Plague Tale: Requiem, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 for Focus Entertainment, and Absolum, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge for Dotemu, will be able to rely on Playruo tools to streamline the testing phases of their games, from pre-production through production, in order to gather more user feedback under optimal access conditions, while ensuring maximum protection for shared content and versions.

This partnership adds to a robust list of client case studies, including organizations such as the SNJV (French national syndicate for video games) as a technology partner for the Pégases Awards, as well as Ubisoft and Webedia, as part of a marketing campaign for the title Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

“As many as 20,000 games are released every year, so it’s an understatement to say that competition is fierce! With Playruo, our goal is to reduce the creative and marketing uncertainty faced by developers and publishers by making it easier to test and access games,” explains Fergus Leleu, CEO of Playruo. “We want to transform every test and every time a game is shared via Playruo’s solutions into a measurable insight for industry players.”

“Playruo turns games into instantly accessible experiences. This is a major shift. By removing installation and distribution friction, they enable studios to test faster, market better, and reach players globally with one click. We have followed and worked with the team for several years, and have been consistently impressed by their vision and execution,” says Olivier Gemayel, managing partner chez Kameha Ventures. “At Kameha, we strongly believe that tools like Playruo, built in gaming, will define the future of interactive content distribution across industries.”

"Supporting Playruo’s growth is fully in line with our strategic vision for digital entertainment. Their technological edge and the team’s expertise make them a cutting-edge player, capable of addressing a major challenge for studios: optimizing and securing player conversion,” details Anthony Bourbon, founder of Blast.Club. “We are proud to support them in bringing this offering to market, which is already shaping up to be an industry benchmark.”

The Playruo solution has been developed by Fergus Leleu, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and Yannis Weinbach. Drawing on their expertise in cloud computing, advertising, and video games, these three enthusiasts took on the challenge of creating a cloud gaming solution tailored to the video game industry.

Playruo’s solutions are available and accessible starting today. And with this new round of funding, the teams are eager to accelerate the international rollout of their solutions to revolutionize access to video games and reduce the friction between players and their games to a bare minimum: just one click!

To learn more about Playruo, visit its website and follow the latest news on LinkedIn and the Playruo blog.

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About Playruo:

Playruo stands out as the first “click-and-play” offering on the market, created by a trio of seasoned innovators: Fergus Leleu, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and Yannis Weinbach. Having all worked at the cloud computing company Shadow, they decided to combine their expertise and passion for video games to create a unique new service. Playruo allows players to instantly immerse themselves in games directly from their browser, without any prior downloads or installations, creating a powerful tool for developers and publishers. Drawing on their experience collaborating with numerous renowned game developers, they have shaped Playruo to reinvent the way games are discovered, shared, and marketed.