Playdemic Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

Hike is a Bengaluru-headquartered blockchain gaming company pivoting from its origins as a messaging app. It develops the Rush Gaming Universe, a Web3 platform blending social gaming with play-to-earn mechanics. Hike partners with studios for titles in casual and competitive genres, enabling skill-based earning across mobile and PC.

Tripledot Studios is a London-headquartered mobile game developer specializing in casual titles such as Solitaire Clash, Tile Triple, and Ball Sort Puzzle. The studio publishes hypercasual and hybrid casual games downloaded over 500 million times across iOS and Android. Founded in 2017, Tripledot has expanded to more than 400 employees and topped App Store charts in 50 countries. Its portfolio generates hundreds of millions in annual revenue through in-app purchases and advertising from partners like ironSource.

Nazara Technologies Ltd is a mobile game company in India. The company has offerings across the interactive gaming, eSports, ad-tech, and gamified early learning ecosystems including World Cricket Championship (WCC) and CarromClash in mobile games, Kiddopia in gamified early learning, Nodwin, PublishMe and Sportskeeda in eSports and eSports media, OpenPlay, Halaplay and Qunami in skill-based, fantasy and trivia games, and Datawrkz in digital ad tech. The company's segment includes Gaming; eSports; and Ad tech. It generates maximum revenue from the eSports segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the USA.

Shift Up Corp is a game design and development studio that covers a wide range of areas from game production to promotional videos and music production, based on illustrations and solid planning and programming capabilities.

DeNA Co Ltd is a social media service provider in Japan. It generates majority of the portion of its revenue by providing social media and Internet marketing-related services through its Social Media segment. The E-commerce segment offers E-Commerce related services, including the operation of auction shopping and cellular phone websites under the names DeNA shopping and Mobaoku, respectively. The Others segment is engaged in travel agency and insurance agency services, and professional baseball related business. The company has its primary market in North America.

NHN operates IT-related businesses across Korea, Japan, the United States, and China. Its activities include gaming, payment services, advertising, commerce, technology services, and digital content operations.

mixi Inc is a Japanese company which provides social networking services. The company conducts its business activities mainly including the operation of websites and provision of native smartphone games on the Internet. It business segments include, Entertainment Business and Media Platform Business. mixi provides games mainly including native smartphone games through Entertainment Business, and operates business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer services utilizing the Internet and invests in operating companies of these services through Media Platform Business.

Ourpalm Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the development, publishing, and operation of games. Its main business includes mobile terminal games, internet page games and product development, agent distribution and operation and maintenance of its peripheral products.

Modern Times Group MTG AB invests in esports, mobile games and other digital entertainment. The group’s companies offer a wide range of games available to audiences all over the world. MTG’s portfolio of IP spans across both the casual and mid-core segments of the gaming market. A vast majority of games are available to consumers on a free-to-play basis, and the group generates revenues from in-app purchases and in-app advertising. The Group operates in Europe, Singapore, USA, India and New Zealand.

PT MNC Digital Entertainment Tbk is a content provider in Indonesia, has its core business in producing, developing, and distributing content and intellectual properties across all existing media platforms. The company's main business is supported by its various business units engaged in media and entertainment activities, such as drama production houses, infotainment, reality shows, game shows, animation, films, original content, music labels, advertising agencies, content & IP licensing, talent management, social media, including multi-channel networks (MCN), OTT superapps, and online portals. The company's operating segments include Digital, Content and IP, Talent, and Subscription. The company generates maximum revenue from the Content and IP, Talent segment.

Embracer Group AB is a parent company of businesses led by entrepreneurs in PC, console, mobile, and board games and other related media. The Group has an extensive catalog of several owned or controlled franchises and has a presence in various regions through its operative groups namely THQ Nordic, Plaion, Coffee Stain, Amplifier Game Invest, and others. Its operating segments are; PC/Console Games, Mobile Games, Tabletop Games, and Entertainment & Services. The company generates key revenue from the development and publishing of games for PC, Console, and Mobiles. Geographically, it derives maximum revenue from the United States of America and the rest from Europe (excluding Sweden), Sweden, and other regions.

Voodoo is a Paris-headquartered mobile game publisher specializing in hypercasual titles such as Helix Jump and Aquapark.io. The studio develops and distributes free-to-play games across iOS and Android platforms worldwide.

Kabam is a San Francisco-headquartered entertainment company building free-to-play games for mobile and web platforms. The studio produces social, strategy, action, arcade, sports, and role-playing titles such as The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth. With offices in Los Angeles, Austin, Vancouver, Beijing, London, and Berlin, Kabam reached over 100 million players before its 2017 acquisition by Netmarble.

Mythical Games is a Sherman Oaks-headquartered studio publishing blockchain-enhanced video games like Blankos Block Party and NFL Rivals. Its Mythical Platform provides developers with Mythos Chain blockchain and MYTH token integration for true in-game asset ownership and secondary marketplaces. The company powers economies in titles across mobile, PC, and console with secure NFT transactions.

NAVER Z is a South Korean technology company operating ZEPETO, a metaverse platform with over 400 million registered users that enables creation of customizable 3D avatars using facial recognition, AR, and AI technologies. Founded by Naver through its Snow subsidiary and spun off in 2020, the platform allows users to design avatars, explore virtual worlds, create and sell digital fashion items, livestream, and socialize across age, gender, and geographic boundaries.

Playco is a Tokyo-based instant-play gaming company founded in 2020 by Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron and Game Closure co-founder Michael Carter, building a web-based game engine for instant games that run without downloads via simple web links. Its games are distributed through platforms such as Google Play Instant, iOS App Clips, Facebook Instant Games, Snapchat Minis, and cloud streaming services, with partnerships spanning Facebook, LINE Messenger, Rakuten Viber, and Snapchat. Playco targets social and messaging apps to deliver multiplayer games accessible to billions of people without requiring app installs.

Netmarble Corp is an online gaming company in South Korea. Its core business include game development and game publishing throughout the world. Some of its games include Tera M, FishingStrike, Raven, Seven Knights, among others.

Yoozoo Interactive Co Ltd is a game-based interactive entertainment company. The company implements the strategies of big data, globalization, and quality products to achieve integrated development across four major areas namely globalized game research and development and publishing, IP management, big data and intelligent technology, and pan-entertainment industry investment. It operates using a 'film-game integration' model to deliver a series of products such as films, games, cartoons, fiction, and commercial property, building a globalized ecosystem for the pan-entertainment industry.