Wooga

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wooga GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 2009
Seat Berlin (Germany)
management Philipp Moeser, Jens Begemann
Number of employees 200
Branch Software development
Website www.wooga.com

The Wooga GmbH is a German games software company based in Berlin , specializes in the development of social network game has specialized and most recently in particular so-called story-driven casual games for mobile devices. According to its own information from 2011, the company is the largest European and third largest provider worldwide in this area and has around 40 million active users per month.

history

The company was founded in 2009 by Jens Begemann and Philipp Moeser and has developed games for social networks from the start. In October 2010 the company had 50 employees, by mid-2011 this number had risen to 85, at which time the company was already the largest European provider in this area. At the end of 2012, 244 employees from over 40 nations were working in the company; in 2018, around 200 employees worked for the company.

In February 2011 Wooga left VZ networks and initially developed exclusively for Facebook . From August 2011 to June 2012, Wooga games were also available on Google Plus .

Wooga in the Berliner Backfabrik

Since the beginning of 2012, the Berlin-based company has been focusing more on mobile titles, for example for iPhone and iPad . In mid-2012, half of the employees in Berlin were working on mobile games. The first game that Wooga also released for the iPhone and iPad was Diamond Dash , which had 11 million downloads after just four months. In December, Diamond Dash was the first Wooga game to be ported to Android smartphones and tablets. In August, Jelly Splash was the first game to be released for mobile devices first.

In August 2011 Wooga was named “Best European Games Company” at the European Games Award , beating 69 companies from 17 countries. Diamond Dash was named the best social game of the year. In September, Gründerszene voted Wooga the best newcomer startup of the decade. In January 2013, the company also won the People's Choice Award at The Europa from tech blog Techcrunch .

In December 2018 it is announced that the Israeli game manufacturer Playtika has taken over Wooga for a purchase price of over 200 million US dollars.

financing

In May 2011, Wooga raised $ 24 million in venture capital . The largest donors were the US investor Highland Capital Partners and the German publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck . Holtzbrinck and Balderton Capital had already invested five million euros in venture capital in November 2009. According to its own information, the company has been financed from current income since 2011.

Facebook games

  • Brain Buddies
  • Diamond Dash
  • Bubble Island
  • Monster World
  • Magic Land
  • Kingsbridge
  • Fantastic forest
  • 2013: Pearl's Peril
  • Jelly Splash
  • 2017: June's Journey

Mobile games

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Golem.de : golem.de : Article from May 31, 2011 (accessed on May 11, 2012)
  2. ↑ VentureTV: wooga and the way to the top - Jens Begemann on success, virality and women
  3. ↑ Gameswirtschaft.de: The largest game developers in Germany in 2020. Accessed on January 12, 2020 .
  4. ↑ netzwertig.com
  5. ↑ spiegel.de
  6. ↑ Meedia.de: Wooga boss: “Tablets will replace PCs”. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Wooga's Top Ten Facebook Game Diamond Dash goes Mobile
  8. ↑ Wooga scores 11M downloads for Diamond Dash on iOS
  9. ↑ How the cloud helped social gaming firm Wooga prepare for its Android invasion
  10. ↑ First place for Jelly Splash in the Appstore
  11. ^ Wooga wins Best Publisher and Best Social Game at the Games Award 2011
  12. ↑ Startup of the Decade
  13. ↑ EyeEm, Wooga, Scolibri win for Host City Berlin at The Europa ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / venturevillage.eu
  14. ↑ Jens Begemann: Wooga boss sells games company for over 200 million dollars to Israel. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Focus.de , May 31, 2011: Computer - Wooga collects money for expansion
  16. ↑ Wooga bags 5 million
  17. ↑ Wooga: "A challenge to remain" - WiWo founder. In: WiWo founder. November 5, 2015, accessed June 23, 2016 .