staq

Game management platform - Acquired by UpSight
//staq is a game management platform. We make it simple to monetize and optimize free to play games on mobile, web and consoles. We provide services to manage virtual currencies and virtual goods, player state, targeted promotions, beautiful analytics and data ...

Ngmoco

Applifier

Mobile and social game network
Applifier helps small and medium sized social & mobile publishers grow. Everyplay: share your most awesome game moments with video replays, discover games, turn players into fans and personalize mobile games: www.everyplay.com Impact: "watch a game trailer, earn ...

Chartboost

Direct-deals mobile advertising marketplace
Chartboost is the world’s largest games-only technology platform. We help developers acquire users, monetize, and use data to make the best decisions possible to grow their business. We partner with 90% of the top grossing iOS and Android game developers and have ...

Circle 38

Connect phones together
Our technology provides instant connection of phones using high-frequency audio waves and real-time communication over mobile networks, allowing multiple iPhone, iPad and Android devices to interact. This unique connectivity drives widespread applicability and ...

MyPad (Loytr)

Mobile Advertising & Engagement Platform w/ 60M downloads
We leverage social and behavioral data from our 40M+ downloads to help other apps monetize and engage their users through our proprietary targeting and real-time bidding system.

Fuel

Multiplayer & live events SDK for worlds best developers
Fuel is the world’s leading platform for creating unique connected experiences by combining the fun and engagement offered by mobile games. Fuel offers publishers the only customizable multiplayer and online SDK that continuously boosts user engagement, retention, ...

Yogome

Learning Games Platform for Kids
Education is going Mobile and Learning can happen anywhere. We are building a Mobile Learning Games Platform so kids can practice Math, Languages, know about Recycling and the Environment, Nutrition, discover Science, Geography and History in a fun way that they ...

RivalMe

Social-Mobile Trivia, Powered by the Social Graph
RivalMe is the world's leader in trivia solutions. Our cross-platform iOS, Android and Facebook apps let you play trivia against your friends anywhere at any time. Powered by our Einstein Engine, we use DEEP Social Graph integration to make sure you get QUESTIONS ...

EDEO (MinoMonsters)

The Pixar of Mobile Gaming
EDEO is the creator of the hit mobile game MinoMonsters. Last year, MinoMonsters grew revenue 350% YoY to $5 million and had 7 million players. With the Q4 launch of MinoMonsters 2, we're expecting to become a top 10 grossing app globally. Our vision is to create ...

Monkimun

Leading Adaptive Language Learning Platform for kids aged 2-6
TL;DR - Our mission is to help children aged 2-6 years learn languages. We're building an adaptive language learning platform for children aged 2-6 years. Key aspects of the platform are: 1) Engaging: The lessons take the shape of mini-games to keep children engaged. 2) ...

SnowShoe Stamp

Engage your customers with a touch of plastic.
SnowShoe Stamps are small pieces of plastic with secret digital identities. Our stamps allow mobile game developers to sell toys that link to in-game content (Skylanders for mobile). At the same time, our stamps have been used as a physical factor of authentication ...

PlaySay

Fun & Social Language Learning. A #1 Ranked Education App in the USA. Acquired by Babbel.
★ "Making learning a language fun" - The Wall Street Journal ★ TechCrunch Disrupt Finalist - TechCrunch PlaySay is an iPhone game that connects language learners so they can have real conversations with pronunciation feedback. PlaySay is a #1 ranked education ...

Ntensify

In-app branded merchandise platform
Ntensify creates a completely new revenue stream for mobile app developers in addition to in-app digital goods and advertising. We make the pie bigger! Ntensify enables mobile app companies to generate additional revenue and engage their customers by selling ...

Pixowl

Educational World Builder Game With a 8.5M Players Community!
Pixowl Inc. is a San Francisco based start-up that develops awesome family mobile games. With over 10M players, one of Pixowl's best titles, "The Sandbox" was selected by Apple as Best Games of 2012: Hidden Gems and is considered a top World Builder game, along ...

Big Head Mode

Personalized Games Starring You and Your Friends
Big Head Mode, Inc is the pioneer in personalized gaming, making emotionally engaging mobile games that star you and your friends. No longer will you be rescuing random princesses and mowing down generic computer opponents: Rescue your wife or girlfriend! Your ...

Leanplum

Mobile lifecycle marketing made simple
Leanplum is the first mobile lifecycle marketing solution truly designed for marketers. We drive engagement and results with Personalized Messaging, User Experience Optimization, Marketing Automation and Mobile A/B Testing with Analytics. Top brands like Expedia, ...

Pocket Gems

Pocket Gems develops free-to-play mobile games that are ridiculously fun. We were founded in 2009 by Daniel Terry and Harlan Crystal, engineers and gaming industry outsiders, who wanted to bring the excitement of social gaming to the mobile platform. Our 18 titles ...

Pocket Change

Universal Loyalty Currency
Pocket Change is a universal loyalty currency. Think AMEX Points, but you earn it across mobile apps whether you're playing games or booking reservations. You can then spend your Pocket Change to buy digital or physical goods.

Apportable

Objective-C for Android
The Apportable compiler turns Objective-C iOS programs into native Android machine machine code. Develop for iOS and get an Android app automatically! Companies are spending $300 billion on salaries of Android developers when they should be writing their apps ...

Kamcord

A Social Network for Gamers (YC S12)
There are 1 billion mobile gamers in the world. Kamcord is a building a social network to unite them all using gameplay videos. Kamcord has 1) An industry leading gameplay recording and sharing SDK 2) A massive community of engaged gamers One kickass video ...

Hammer & Chisel

Blizzard of the post-pc era
The old way of building core games is dying but gaming isn't. The sales of mobile devices are off the charts. So why is everyone still building these boring simulation games? In our quest to build something that we love to play, we are mashing up knowledge from ...

Beintoo

Mobile Gamification for Monetization and Distribution
Beintoo is a mobile engagement platform provider in more than 250 Million devices, offering a unique loyalty program for mobile and web applications. Beintoo rewards users with virtual credits, called “Bedollars,” for achievements and daily activities on the web ...

Betable

Legally add real-money gambling to your games.
Betable (https://developers.betable.com), the world’s only real-money gaming platform, is reinventing entertainment by merging the worlds of gaming and real-money play. Betable provides the license, support and infrastructure that allow developers to legally integrate ...

Monstrous.fm

Gameful Social Music
Monstrous.fm was acquired by Freeform Development, Inc. in March 2015. Our gamified celebrity music apps empower artists to connect with fans, grow their audiences, and turn “Likes” and tweets into revenue. We leverage our music artists' social media outreach ...

Beyond Games

Mobile for Core Gamers.
Mobile for core gamers.

Spitball Entertainment

Create billion-$ brands like Hannah Montana via the low cost and virality of a social game
Spitball Entertainment develops character brands for kids that are launched through online/mobile games. Our first series, based on an original character named Miya Mackenzie, takes players on the adventure of becoming a pop star in Hollywood -- featuring rich ...

Clay.io

The platform for mobile web games
Clay.io is a platform for mobile web games. With over 4 million users to-date, our marketplace provides a fun experience for players and a great platform for developers to publish their games. Our early focus is on growing our audience through Kik, a messaging ...

Bionic Panda Games

Multi-platform mobile social games with a focus on Android
We are a mobile social games company with a strong focus on the Android platform. Our first game, Aqua Pets, has nearly 4 million installs on Android and we'll soon be taking that game to other key platforms and releasing a number of new titles on multiple platforms ...

Super Evil Megacorp.

Competitive games on tablets (Riot, Kabam, Gameloft)

sonicpanther

real-time music listening with friends/businesses
sonicpanther is a real-time music streaming application that allows people to listen to music with their friends and their favorite venues in real-time from anywhere in the world.

Highrise

The only mobile-first virtual world for teens
Highrise is a company with a grand vision - we are creating the Disney of tomorrow, inventing engaging and interactive characters and experiences in the context of a massive, persistent virtual world.  The core of our culture is built around creativity and storytelling, ...

Shark Punch

Discover and connect with games you'll love.
Playfield is a platform for players to discover and connect with games they care about. Polyvore meets the App Store, with smart recommendations based on your interests and social graph. We serve both gamers looking for something play, and developers looking for ...

F50

F50 is a private founder and investor network
F50 is a private founder and investor network based in SF.

JuiceBox Games

Mobile Midcore Games
JuiceBox Games is building the next generation of mobile midcore games. With a world-class team of cross-discipline Zynga veterans, JuiceBox is going after the underserved "accessible midcore" market. Gamers can play on Apple and Android phones and tablets.

Proxy42

Games. As real as life.
We want to let people live incredible game experiences in the real world! The first game we release is Father.io: a Massive Multiplayer First Person Shooter you play in the real world using the first wearable device especially created for gaming. It allows at ...

Bubble Gum Interactive

Mobile Games and virtual worlds
Bubble Gum Interactive is an independent game studio that creates compelling and engaging multi-platform gaming experiences including casual mobile games and virtual worlds. Our first game for mobile, Jetpack Jinx is available for Google Play and Apple iOS with ...

Swrve

In-App Marketing Platorm
In-App Marketing Platform

Wormhole Games

Bringing arcade style fun to free-to-play tablet games
We’re bringing arcade-style fun to free-to-play tablet games. Our games are designed to attract a broad cross-section of players, with item-based monetization designed to engage enthusiast gamers. Established companies are hesitant to do anything other than repeat ...

RunWilder

Creating franchise characters born on mobile
RunWilder is brings deep fictional characters and stories to mobile as a launch pad for the IP. Our 1st character named Ozgood, is beer drinking, burger eating monster targeted towards the 18-34 demo. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars. Ozgood - Free Download www.ozgoodapp.com Our ...

Emotely

Emotely turns Phones and Tablets into Wireless Controllers.
See Short Video: (1:32) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE8-TntjYB4

Snow Cherry

The world's most playful and engaging photosharing app
The vision is to create the world’s most creative & playful community for sharing photos. Each day everyone in the App gets a "Spank", or a prompt, to take a photo of something. For example: -Something in your pocket -A selfie -The view from your bedroom All ...

Kydaemos

We make your game matter
Kydaemos gives mobile-device users the power to wager cash on head-to-head action games. Players bet real money against each other. Winner takes all – minus a fee that Kydaemos and the game’s developer share. That’s the deeper purpose: Kydaemos is a platform ...

Ender's Fund

Delighting players 2 minutes at a time.
Deadeye Derby • Launch: June, 2014 • Downloads: 1 million as of April, 2014 • Apple featured: one of the best new games of the week Swipe the Deck • Launch: September, 2012 by Chillingo • Gameplay: poker + puzzle • Retention: 7 day retention at 45% We took the ...

Social Mobile Sports

Joe Montana's Second Screen Sports Mobile Game
iMFL (Instant Montana Fantasy League), co-founded by Joe Montana, is an instant Fantasy Football app that brings for the first time ever, real time game predictions. iMFL is intended to be a second screen game, where users are simultaneously watching the football ...

Playviews

Innovative mobile games
We make mobile games for both IOS and Android. The following games are live: 1. Galaxy Ranger (on IOS) is a co-development (we did the artwork and game design) with a company called Other Ocean. 2. Fantasy Quest (on IOS) is an in-house game that is currently ...

Red Lozenge

Games for health and fitness
Habit Monster is a mobile game that helps you develop healthy habits. Take charge of a uniquely customizable monster, and care for it by caring for yourself. Habit Monster makes health and fitness fun.

GREE International

Global leader in free-to-play gaming
GREE International, the division leading GREE’s charge into the Western market, was formed in 2011 and rapidly achieved international success, with revenue growth of 350% and a cumulative lifetime revenue quickly approaching $500 million. GREE International is ...

Roaring Bull Studios

Custom Game Development
Roaring Bull Studios provides custom mobile and social game development, including concept art, animation, software development, QA, project management and game data entry and verification.

PlayCoMo

Blizzard of Mobile
PlayCoMo's vision is to create hardcore titles for the 18-35 male demographic with competitive, asynchronous/real-time PvP mechanics for next generation platforms like tablets and mobile devices.

PlayHaven

Mobile Game LTV Maximization Platform

PlayFirst

casual game publisher
Official home of the award-winning Diner Dash, Cooking Dash, Wedding Dash, Dream Chronicles. These amazingly fun games are available for your iPhone or iPad, to download on your PC or Mac, or to play free online.

Booyah

Location-Based Mobile Gaming
Booyah, headquartered in San Francisco, is the market leader in location–based gaming. Our games capture a wide-range of real-world signals to inspire new gameplay via location-based check-ins, product/brand interactions, and real-world personal interests/activities. As ...

Hobo Labs

Guild-based casual mobile games

Nextpeer

Transforming single-player mobile games into Multiplayer Games
Nextpeer has developed a wildly successful platform that allows any iOS developer to easily integrate a first-class multiplayer experience into their games. By using Nextpeer's SDK, developers monopolize all the cutting edge functions that exist in building multiplayer ...

Pixel Addicts

Mobile Games for iOS
The Best Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games for iOS

Curios.me

We allow student organizations to raise money by testing mobile games

Grow Mobile

A single mobile ad buying solution across networks with ROI analytics and optimization.
Grow Mobile is building a unified dashboard for mobile ad buying across a large number of ad networks with ROI analytics transparency reporting for better optimization and ad budget scale.