Wooga

The Wooga GmbH is a German gaming software company based in Berlin, which specializes in the development of " social games ", ie games online within social networks, and " Mobile Games". According to information from the year 2011, the company Europe's largest and third largest provider globally in this area and has approximately 40 million active monthly users.

History

The company was founded by Jens Begemann and Philipp Moeser in 2009 and from the outset developed games for social networks. In October 2010, the company employed 50 employees, already by mid- 2011, this number rose to 85, the company was at that time already the largest European provider in this area. End of June 2012, Wooga, the 200 employee mark. At the end of the year more than 250 people from over 40 nations working in the company

In February 2011, Wooga left the VZ networks and first developed exclusively for Facebook. From August 2011 to June 2012 the games of Wooga on Google Plus were used.

Since early 2012, the Berlin company also relies increasingly on mobile titles, for example, for iPhone and iPad. Currently, already half of the employees working in Berlin on mobile games. The first game that Wooga also released for iPhone and iPad was Diamond Dash, which could have eleven million downloads after only four months. In December, Diamond Dash was the first Wooga game ported to Android smartphones and tablets. In August, with the first game Jelly Splash "mobile first" published.

In August 2011, Wooga was awarded at the European Games Award for Best European game company and, beating 69 companies from 17 countries. Diamond Dash is nominated for Best Social Game of the Year. In September selects " start-up scene " Wooga best newcomer startup of the decade. In January 2013, the company also won the " People's Choice Award at the " The Europas " of Techblogs Techcrunch.

Financing

In May 2011, Wooga collected 24 million dollars in venture capital. The main donors were the U.S. investor Highland Capital Partners and the German publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck. In November 2009, Holtzbrinck and Balderton Capital had invested five million euros venture capital.

Games

  • Pearl 's Peril
  • Kingsbridge
  • Fantastic Forest
  • Bubble Iceland
  • Monster World
  • Pocketvillage
  • Diamond Dash
  • Magic Land
  • Bubble Guy
  • Jelly Splash
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