article thumbnail

Mobile gaming startup Homa Games raises $50 million

TechCrunch

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum , another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. It has developed its own tech stack that optimizes the performance of each game.

Games 363
article thumbnail

Arianna Simpson of a16z on Yield Guild Games, the firm’s newest bet on crypto + gaming

TechCrunch

Toward that end, she has been more focused of late on startups that combine crypto with gaming. YGG lends players the money to buy the Axies and other digital assets to start the game, so they can start earning money. AS: I think it was crypto Twitter, which honestly is where we’re finding a lot of our gaming investments.

Games 362
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Homa raises another $100 million for its data-driven mobile gaming tools

TechCrunch

Homa partners with indie mobile game studios so that their games are perfectly optimized to become a hit game on the App Store and Google Play. In other words, Homa builds tools that help third-party developers build games. Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads.

Games 355
article thumbnail

Why Fortnite is getting into cozy gaming

TechCrunch

When it comes to figuring out a formula for a hit game that keeps players coming back year after year, Saxs Persson would know. Now at Epic Games overseeing the Fortnite ecosystem, Persson previously spent 12 years at Mojang building Minecraft into the stratospheric success it is today.

Games 299
article thumbnail

The Empowered Consumer

This ebook takes an in-depth look at the real challenges facing the retail sector and how AI can be a game changer in meeting those challenges. Targeted product promotion so that consumers receive ads that are relevant to them.

article thumbnail

Fortnite maker Epic Games wins its antitrust fight against Google

TechCrunch

On Monday, a jury sided with Epic Games over Google in an antitrust case that could reshape how app marketplaces like Google Play are allowed to operate. Epic, creator of the popular online multiplayer game Fortnite, first filed its lawsuit against Google in […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

Games 333
article thumbnail

After two ambitious years, TikTok parent ByteDance starts mass layoffs in gaming

TechCrunch

ByteDance’s gaming ambition has been an expensive, short-lived pursuit. In late 2021, the TikTok parent’s plans for video games came into the spotlight after it became one of the firm’s six core business units, posing a new threat to incumbents such as Tencent and NetEase and rising star MiHoYo.

Games 318
article thumbnail

2 Retail Sectors That Are Completely Changing the Game: FMCG & Q-Commerce

Speaker: Joe Heather, Deliverect GM (UK&I) & Noah Hayes, Deliverect GM (US&CA)

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Quick Commerce (Q-commerce) are two vibrant sectors that have undergone significant transformations with the advancements in digital technology. With growing internet penetration and the proliferation of smartphones, consumers' purchasing habits have unsurprisingly evolved.

article thumbnail

How King Crushes New Product Development using Data-Driven Insights

Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker

Product Managers looking to leverage data to make informed product design decisions can learn a lot from renowned gaming company King, maker of Candy Crush and many other games - even if their product has seemingly no overlap with games.

article thumbnail

What is Contextual Analytics? The Next Evolution of Embedded Analytics

Why contextual analytics is a game-changer for deeper insights and analysis This whitepaper will help you understand: What contextual analytics can do to elevate the value of your application. How contextual analytics fuses user workflow and analytics together for seamless BI.

article thumbnail

B2B Pocket Playbook: End-to-End Guide to Sales Enablement

And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. Get started today.

article thumbnail

How Deepgram Works

Regardless of whether you are evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) solutions to get more value out of your call center data, build the next game-changing voice feature, or are just looking to save a lot of money on speech transcription, Deepgram is the platform to get you there.

article thumbnail

How Great Organizations Empower Customer Experience Teams

Speaker: Conference Speakers

Topics will include: Cultivating Operational Agility: Leadership, Culture, and How New Tech Like Headless, Composable/MACH and Low Code Change the Game. See inside the operations of top performing customer experience teams, and improve your organization’s CX outcomes. Operationalizing Voice of the Customer and Empowering the Frontline.

article thumbnail

Does Your Company Need Help Solving These 4 Common eLearning Challenges?

If you want to know how to get ahead of the game and avoid the common mishaps in selling your eLearning courses, you’ve come to the right place! Lambda Solutions has identified the most common and costly challenges faced by eLearning providers today. These include: Overcoming the high cost of scaling.

article thumbnail

Data Science Fails: Building AI You Can Trust

The game-changing potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is well-documented. Any organization that is considering adopting AI at their organization must first be willing to trust in AI technology.