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משחק מובייל גיימינג סלולרי נייד

Game on: How Turkey has become a mobile gaming powerhouse

22.06.22|Irad Atzmon-Schmayer
In the shadow of a shattered economy, Turkey has become a hyper-casual gaming incubator, attracting international venture capital funds and exporting gaming companies that are sold at lofty valuations
טייניטאפ tinytap אפליקציות ילדים

Edtech startup TinyTap acquired by blockchain gaming unicorn Animoca Brands at $50 million valuation

16.06.22|CTech
Animoca Brands said it will leverage the acquisition of the Israeli company to establish a new business segment for blockchain-based UGC educational content
Odeeo team

Odeeo secures $9 million Seed funding for gaming audio advertising platform

14.06.22|CTech
The Israeli startup’s technology enables brands and studios to use audio adverts along with visual elements in a game
Raz Friedman

Raz Friedman leaving Playtika to join MonkeyLeague as Chief Product Officer

06.06.22|CTech
MonkeyLeague has plans for creating a vast web3 esports ecosystem with a multitude of interconnected roles and ways to engage as well as earn
רוברט אנטוקול מייסד ומנכ"ל פלייטיקה

Playtika to lay off 250 employees in North America and Europe

31.05.22|Meir Orbach
The gaming giant is looking to consolidate some of its activities and therefore decided to close its R&D centers in London and Montreal, and to transfer the activity of its Los Angeles studio to Israel and Poland
מגזין עצמאות 4.5.22 גל גולדשטיין צור תמם סהר אזרן אלון שקדי תום עמל ו אהוד רוזנברג מייסדי קנדיבור Candivore

Gaming startup Candivore raises $10 million to build on Match Masters success

26.05.22|CTech
The hit mobile game has more than 30 million downloads while counting more than 5 million monthly active users, generating $7 million in March 2022 alone
ProDrops co-founders

ProDrops secures $5 million Seed from Playtika for gaming and eSports collectibles product

15.05.22|CTech
The Israeli startup’s collection and trading card game allows gamers to connect with their idols off social media, off-stream, and in-game while creating additional revenue streams for gaming content creators
NOVOS co-founders

NOVOS raises $6 million Seed round to train gamers

05.04.22|CTech
The Israeli startup’s platform tracks the strengths and weaknesses of each gamer based on their in-game performance and provides them with a customized training plan
עידו יבלונקה

Stealth startup Kooply raises $18 million Seed round for mobile gaming development platform

29.03.22|Meir Orbach
While the company is not currently sharing full details of its product, the Israeli startup’s vision revolves around building a game creation platform that brings together players, creators and developers in a mobile-centric community
מימין: דני ביקון, מנהל החממה. דן גרינברג, סמנכ"ל עיצוב באיירון סורס

“Academia is helping create a gaming ecosystem”

29.03.22|Irad Atzmon-Schmayer
Bezalel Academy, ironSource, Hebrew University, Ministry of Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem municipality have founded Gamehub, an incubator devoted to gaming. “Content needs to be the main focus,” says Manager Dani Bacon, who isn’t worried about startups relocating to Tel Aviv
מירי נודלמן, מתכנתת ומהנדסת דאטה בפלייטיקה

Derogatory treatment could deter female gamers from becoming game designers

18.03.22|Irad Atzmon-Schmayer
Female gamers receive unequal treatment, and this could later deter them from becoming game designers, programmers, and developers says Miri Nudelman, a data engineer at Playtika
צוות Overwolf

Overwolf acquires Tebex for $29 million to expand creator economy platform

15.03.22|Meir Orbach
The Israeli company is expanding into a new creator category - private server owners and creators
רימון שושן, מדריכת תכנות לנערות בעמותת QueenB

“Teaching young girls to code is shattering the stigma that ‘programming is only for boys’”

15.03.22|Irad Atzmon-Schmayer
Calcalist spoke with the Israeli women changing the future of gaming, with Part 3 featuring Rimon Shushan, NOC engineer, and a programming mentor at QueenB, an organization that helps teach young girls programming
מימין: רתם בן דוד ומיכל יששכרי

“Women work harder than their male counterparts to earn senior positions”

14.03.22|Irad Atzmon-Schmayer
Despite the increase in the number of female gamers, the number of those who design games is still relatively low. Calcalist spoke with several Israeli women who are changing the future of gaming, with Part 2 featuring Rotem Ben-David and Michal Issachary of CrazyLabs
שי סגל, מעצבת XR בסטארט-אפ Resight

“Things are changing. Having a female gaming community is important”

13.03.22|Irad Atzmon-Schmayer
Despite the increase in the number of female gamers, the number of those who design games is still relatively low. Calcalist spoke with several Israeli women who are changing the future of gaming, with Part 1 featuring Shay Segal, Head of Design at Resight
ברייטמן ו פרומר

Hitting the jackpot: Clawee is the next stage in gaming

06.02.22|Irad Atzmon Schmayer
The mobile app enables someone in China to operate a claw machine in Petach Tikva and grab a toy that will be sent to the user via mail. Who on Earth needs that? The answer is the 1.5 million people who play Clawee each month, and another million who watch from the sidelines
צוות Spring Games

Spring Games raises $7 million Seed round to develop NFT-powered games

25.01.22|CTech
Playtika led the round in the Israeli startup, which is building Play-to-Earn games on blockchain infrastructure
Adi Itach Sayolla CMO

Shopping while playing is Sayollo’s game

03.01.22|Daniel Farber-Ball
Focusing on Gen-Z gamers, the Israeli startup’s CMO Adi Itach says its in-game marketplace platform, gComm, is “the future of commerce and gaming, as a hybrid of these two worlds”
Keren Marom Beach Bum 20

“Everyone came with a different background, and together we really made a really strong team.”

28.12.21|CTech
While Beach Bum has had some big milestones as a company, co-founder and COO Keren Marom says that celebrating the small wins is important as well
צוות Edge Gaming

Playtika leads $10 million Seed investment in Edge Gaming

15.12.21|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli startup has developed a platform which allows any player to generate “Playables” - custom mini-games that are reproduced from existing gameplay moments
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