| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.09.2025 | Galakto – ein handlicher Toniebox-Konkurrent aus Berlin | Das Berliner Medien-Startup Galakto, 2023 von Timo Dries und Frank Ließner ins Leben gerufen, positioniert sich als “Musik- und Hörspielplayer für Kinder”. Die jeweiligen Hörspiele kommen in “Form eines Tokens”, der in den Player gesteckt w... |
| 06.02.2025 | Corporate Shifts and Shareholder Engagement: A Look at Recent Developments in Flexion and Wärtsilä | In the fast-paced world of corporate governance, changes can happen in the blink of an eye. Two recent announcements from Flexion and Wärtsilä highlight the dynamic nature of business leadership and shareholder engagement. These development... |
| 05.02.2025 | Flexion announces transition of CFO | Flexion announces transition of CFO
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London, 5 February 2025 – Flexion (NASDAQ:FLEXM), the games marketing company, today announced that its CFO, Niklas Koresaar has resigned and will be leavin... |
| 17.12.2024 | Agave Games, Turkish creator of 'Find My Cat,' secures $18M Series A | Turkish mobile gaming startup Agave Games has raised $18 million Series A funding. This brings the company’s funding to $25.5 million with a post-money valuation of around $100 million.
The company was founded by former high school friends ... |
| 06.06.2023 | SumUp appoints a new CFO, Hermione McKee joins the fintech from Babbel | Global payments platform for SMEs, SumUp has announced the appointment of Hermione McKee as Chief Financial Offer, she joins the firm from language learning platform Babbel.
This move has gotten us wondering if this is a hint towards an IPO... |
| 18.08.2022 | Solsten raises $22 million to help firms design better digital experiences for audiences | Berlin-based AI startup Solsten has raised a $21.8 million in funding to help brands understand their customers on a deeply human level to create new experiences.
The Series B round was led by Denver-based Konvoy with participation from ret... |
| 16.02.2022 | Toy figurines and hybrid learning app for kids play in €3.35 million for Munich’s women-led startup | Munich-based edtech startup Edurino has raised €3.35 million in a seed round. The round was led by btov Partners. Other backers include experienced VCs such as Emerge Education and Fabian and Ferry Heilemann through Pirate Impact. All exist... |
| 03.12.2018 | Israel’s Playtika acquires German game startup Wooga for over $100 million to expand its casual games portfolio | Playtika, the world’s largest Social Casino games company and the maker of highly immersive social games, has acquired Wooga Gmbh, a world-class casual games company, for more than $100 million. The 180-employee Berlin-based studio develops... |
| 03.12.2018 | Israeli gaming company Playtika has acquired Berlin’s Wooga to expand its casual games portfolio | Berlin-based casual games maker Wooga has been acquired by Israeli mobile games studio Playtika. With the move, half of Playtika’s titles will now be casual games, as the company seeks to diversify into new genres. Terms of the acquisition ... |
| 04.10.2017 | Wooga’s June’s Journey hidden-object game features ambitious weekly updates | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
German mobile social game company Wooga is unveiling June’s Journey, a new hidden-object game with an ambitious weekly update schedule.... |
| 23.02.2017 | InnoGames acquires Wooga’s strategy game Warlords | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
InnoGames has acquired Wooga’s strategy game Warlords.
Hamburg, Germany-based InnoGames will pick up ownership of Warlords and continue... |
| 23.02.2017 | InnoGames acquires Wooga’s strategy game Warlords | InnoGames has acquired Wooga’s strategy game Warlords.
Hamburg, Germany-based InnoGames will pick up ownership of Warlords and continue to operate the game, but it will not acquire any employees as part of the agreement. The deal comes shor... |
| 06.10.2016 | Pop ’til you drop with Wooga’s Bubble Island 2: World Tour | Wooga likes to handcraft its mobile games. So it’s a relatively rare event when it launches a new one. Today the Berlin-based company is announcing the launch of Bubble Island 2: World Tour, a zany bubble-shooter game with crazy physics.
Ab... |
| 06.10.2016 | Pop ’til you drop with Wooga’s Bubble Island 2: World Tour | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wooga likes to handcraft its mobile games. So it’s a relatively rare event when it launches a new one. Today the Berlin-based company i... |
| 06.07.2015 | Bye Balderton Capital: The Future Is Coming – By Roberto Bonanzinga | After 7+ years as a Partner at Balderton, I have spent the last 12 months in a reduced capacity of Venture Partner. Well… the day has now come to move on and go after new adventures.
Thank you to my Partners and Colleagues….
First of all I ... |
| 22.01.2015 | VCs Are Ripe For Smart Alternatives To Fund App Growth | Martin Macmillan Contributor
Martin Macmillan is the CEO of Pollen VC, a fintech company that created the concept of revenue recycling to provide receivables financing to app developers globally together with growth consulting services.
Mor... |
| 21.01.2015 | Wooga makes its next big bet on hidden-object mobile game Agent Alice (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wooga has become very meticulous with its process of creating hit mobile games, often starting with 100 ideas and publishing only a cou... |
| 21.01.2015 | Wooga makes its next big bet on hidden-object mobile game Agent Alice (exclusive) | Wooga has become very meticulous with its process of creating hit mobile games, often starting with 100 ideas and publishing only a couple of titles a year. And now the German game company has worked through that process to unveil another g... |
| 16.09.2014 | How mobile developer Wooga creates massive hits from the misses | SAN FRANCISCO — In order to create a hit, you have to kill a game. Or dozens of games, according to Jens Begemman, the CEO and founder of Berlin-based mobile game developer Wooga. In a talk at GamesBeat 2014, Begemman revealed how he and hi... |
| 16.09.2014 | How mobile developer Wooga creates massive hits from the misses | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — In order to create a hit, you have to kill a game. Or dozens of games, according to Jens Begemman, the CEO and founder ... |
| 22.03.2014 | These two founders want to get you, the normal person, cooking | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Verena Hubertz and Mengting Gao are the founders ... |
| 13.03.2014 | Mobile Ad Platform Vungle Offers Publishers Payouts in Bitcoin | Good news for mobile app developers who want more options when getting paid from their advertising revenue: mobile advertising platform Vungle has just announced plans to offer their publishers the option to receive payments in bitcoin.
Vun... |
| 12.11.2013 | TC Cribs: Wooga, Where Addictive Social Games Are Made In The Heart Of Berlin | Last month, a number of us TechCrunchers grabbed our passports and jetted to Berlin for our first-ever Disrupt Europe conference. The tech scene in Berlin is very hot at the moment, so while we were in town, we knocked on the doors of a cou... |
| 20.07.2013 | Will The Real Berlin Please Stand Up? — A VC Puts The City’s Tech Boom in Context | This is a guest post by Ciaran O´Leary, a Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital in Berlin. Earlybird manages €600m in funds and are investors in companies such as Carpooling.com, Peak Games, SocialBakers, The Football App, and Wunderlist. He... |
| 12.02.2013 | Wooga founder: Touch is a bigger revolution for games than the mouse | The touch screen is going to create a bigger revolution in games than the computer mouse did — so says Jens Begemann, the chief executive of Berlin-based casual game maker Wooga.
That’s saying a lot since the mouse drove PC gaming for decad... |
| 12.02.2013 | Wooga founder: Touch is a bigger revolution for games than the mouse | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The touch screen is going to create a bigger revolution in games than the computer mouse did — so says Jens Begemann, the chief executi... |
| 01.11.2012 | Wooga expands into mobile with its Bubble Island arcade shooter game | Wooga has become the third-largest social gaming company on Facebook with more than 36.8 million monthly active users. And now it is making a big push into mobile with its second game for the small screen, Bubble Island.
The title is an arc... |
| 16.08.2012 | Berlin, Instagram and alpha males – GP Bullhound’s Julian Riedlbauer talks deals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tech investment bank GP Bullhound just opened an ... |
| 24.07.2012 | Wooga To Extend Its Mobile Games Footprint After Seeing Massive Growth | Wooga, the Berlin-based social gaming startup, may well look quite different in a year’s time. In recent years the company has climbed up the social games leader poll with a number of highly successful games on Facebook. But it’s recent exp... |
| 24.07.2012 | Facebook outlines the opportunities in social games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The common belief is that Zynga has social games locked up on Facebook. But the social network is eager to dispel that idea, even if Zy... |
| 22.07.2012 | Think Hiring Is Tough In The Valley? Now Europe Joins The Talent Wars | Despite some of the froth being blown off following the rocky Facebook IPO, it remains the case that talent and hiring are a big issue in the Valley. And you may not know this, but for a long time Europeans looked onward to the U.S. and tho... |
| 12.07.2012 | European Zynga Competitor SocialPoint Raises $7.4M Series B Round | It’s not quite at the scale of Zynga or its European competitors King.com and Wooga yet, but the Barcelona-based social games developer SocialPoint just raised a $7.4M Series B round led by Idinvest Partners with participation from a number... |
| 28.06.2012 | Cocky Geekli.st founder says “LinkedIn will become the MySpace of hiring” | We all know it. LinkedIn is the root-canal work of recruitment – painful, but necessary. The site looks like a feverish UI guy vomited the internet and its failure to enhance its service in any enjoyable way in the last decade lets down its... |
| 22.06.2012 | Developer releases source of HTML5 mobile game, sheds light on challenges | reader comments 40 with 26 posters participating
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Inspired by the buzz around HTML5, game development studio Wooga recently attempted to build a complete mobile game with st... |
| 21.06.2012 | Wooga re-releases Facebook game as an open-source HTML5 | The popular Magic Land is reborn as Pocket Island, a first attempt at Facebook HTML5 gaming
The fourth largest game developer on Facebook, Wooga was chosen to be one of the first partners to develop a game using HTML5. Wooga announced today... |
| 15.06.2012 | PopCap And Wooga Pull Games From Google+ | Less than a year after the debut of gaming on Google’s social platform, Google+, two game developers are pulling their titles. Bejeweled Blitz, a popular game owned by Electronic Arts‘ Pop Cap divsion, and several titles from Wooga, the mak... |
| 01.04.2012 | Wooga scores 11M downloads for Diamond Dash on iOS | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wooga has come out of nowhere to become the second-largest player on Facebook in social games. Now it is showing great progress in gett... |
| 01.04.2012 | Facebook’s Mobile Viral Channels Are Working For Wooga, Europe’s Biggest Social Gaming Company | Viral channels are slowly and inevitably starting to matter for mobile game developers. For ages, many top developers would try and climb up the charts through a combination of mobile advertising, offer walls, free app promotions or more ne... |
| 01.04.2012 | Wooga scores 11M downloads for Diamond Dash on iOS | Wooga has come out of nowhere to become the second-largest player on Facebook in social games. Now it is showing great progress in getting downloads on iOS too, with more than 11 million downloads of Diamond Dash in four months.
The Berlin,... |
| 17.03.2012 | How Germany’s Wooga took Facebook by storm (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After Zynga, the second-biggest player on Facebook isn’t Electronic Arts anymore. It’s Wooga, a Berlin-based studio that has become Eur... |
| 08.01.2012 | Facebook Adds In-Game Offers Option For All Developers, Hoping To Further Diversify Revenue | Facebook has just started letting any developer on its platform run advertising offers that pay out directly in the native currency of their games. Let’s say you’re playing Ravenskye City, a new simulation-exploration game from Lolapps, and... |
| 17.12.2011 | Five European Startups To Watch | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Amit Shafrir is president of Badoo, a social network for meeting new people based in London with 130 million users.
Silicon Valley is famously, and rightly, proud of its place as the spiritual home for start... |
| 24.10.2011 | Berlin: The birth place of the next Facebook? | TechCrunch recently featured post by TechCrunch TV featuring Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Third Industrial Revolution, who argues that Europe will be the next cradle of innovation. To that end, we’re increasingly finding VCs in Europe looki... |
| 04.10.2011 | The good and bad news about the future of European VC | This is a guest post by Paul Jozefak of Neuhaus Partners, commenting on the release of a working paper put out by the European Investment Fund about the performance and prospects for European venture capital. You can follow Paul at his blog... |
| 20.07.2011 | Wooga becomes No. 3 Facebook game maker and launches mobile titles | Chances are you haven’t heard of social game maker Wooga. But thanks to the popularity of its social game Diamond Dash, the German company is now the third-largest social game maker on Facebook. Now the company is preparing to take Diamond ... |
| 20.07.2011 | Wooga becomes No. 3 Facebook game maker and launches mobile titles | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Chances are you haven’t heard of social game maker Wooga. But thanks to the popularity of its social game Diamond Dash, the German comp... |
| 20.07.2011 | German Social Game Maker wooga Battles The Bosses, Prepares To Bring Top Title To Mobile | When it comes to social games, Zynga is the undisputed king. But, when it comes to second place, it’s not so easy to say — the competition is stiff. Yet, today German social game developer Wooga has (at least for the time being) overtaken E... |
| 07.07.2011 | Loic Needs To Get His Head Out Of His Silicon Valley | I have the hugest respect for Loic Le Meur. Years before anyone was organising a major tech conference in Europe (outside of the dull corporate IT ones) Loic was charging ahead with first Les Blogs, which became the juggernaut of Le Web. It... |
| 31.05.2011 | Wooga announces $24m Series B investment | World’s Fastest Growing Social Games Company Accelerates Expansion
Berlin, May 31, 2011 – wooga, Europe’s largest developer of online social games, announced today a $24m Series B investment led by Highland Capital Partners. Tenaya Capital... |
| 31.05.2011 | wooga receives $24m investment led by Highland | wooga, Europe’s largest developer of online social games, announced today a $24 million Series B investment led by Highland Capital Partners. Tenaya Capital and the existing investors Holtzbrinck Ventures and Balderton Capital also particip... |
| 31.05.2011 | wooga raises $24M for casual social gaming | The Zynga of Europe ranks sixth out of all Facebook developers
Let’s party like it’s 2010 (2009?) and let the social gaming venture capital keep on rolling.
wooga, easily Europe's largest developer of online social games, announced Tuesday ... |
| 31.05.2011 | wooga Raises $24M in Series B Financing | wooga, a Berlin, Germany-based developer of online social games, has raised $24m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Highland Capital Partners, with participation from Tenaya Capital and existing investors Balderton Capital and HV H... |
| 30.05.2011 | Germany’s Wooga raises $24M for social games on Facebook | Wooga says it has become the fastest-growing social game developer on Facebook, and the company announced today that it has raised $24 million in a second round of funding.
The funding shows that social gaming is still hot and that it’s pos... |
| 30.05.2011 | Scoop: European Social Games Phenomenon wooga Raises $24 Million | Exclusive – Wooga doesn’t get even half the attention that’s been given to its closest rivals in the social games space, namely Zynga and EA. But the European games developer is taking off big time, and it’s no surprise to see venture capit... |
| 30.05.2011 | Germany’s Wooga raises $24M for social games on Facebook | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wooga says it has become the fastest-growing social game developer on Facebook, and the company announced today that it has raised $24 ... |
| 16.05.2011 | Social games publisher Pretty Simple raises €2.5 million from Idinvest | The first name that comes to mind when we talk about social games in Europe is probably Wooga. But the German-based social games publisher has a number of local competitors dispersed throughout the continent. In France, one of the names tha... |
| 05.04.2011 | TechCrunch Europe and The Telegraph release the Startup100 | TechCrunch Europe occasionally partners with other media outlets in Europe in order to support the European ecosystem. Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into... |
| 17.03.2011 | Europe's Wooga moves up the social gaming leader-board but Silicon Valley dominates | Wooga, which is sometimes referred to as the Zynga of Europe, has moved up two places on the social gaming leader-board, overtaking U.S. rivals Popcap and Digital Chocolate. Or so says the Berlin-based startup, citing data from Facebook met... |
| 22.12.2010 | How Wooga Is Becoming Europe's Zynga (TCTV) | Berlin-based social games startup Wooga is rapidly turning into the Zynga for Europe. Its latest social game on Facebook, Happy Hospital now has one million players. And its Monster World and Bubble Island games both now have one million Da... |
| 22.12.2010 | Video: How Wooga is becoming the Zynga for Europe (TCTV) | Berlin-based social games startup Wooga is rapidly turning into the Zynga for Europe. Its latest social game on Facebook, Happy Hospital now has one million players. And its Monster World and Bubble Island games both now have one million Da... |
| 30.07.2010 | Playdom commits to using Facebook Credits exclusively for five years | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Playdom, the largest social gaming company on MyS... |
| 30.07.2010 | Playdom commits to using Facebook Credits exclusively for five years | Playdom, the largest social gaming company on MySpace and the third-largest on Facebook, has signed a five-year contract to exclusively use Facebook’s Credits as in-game currency across all of its titles, reports Inside Social Games.
The ne... |
| 12.11.2009 | Wooga raises €5 million for social gaming | Third social gaming startup with big financial news in one week: social gaming just got huge On Monday of this week, Electronic Arts acquired social gaming startup Playfish for at least $275 million in cash, with extra bonuses in the future... |
| 12.11.2009 | Berlin-Based Wooga secures €5M Financing led by Balderton | wooga, a Berlin, Germany-based social games developer, announced that it has secured a further €5m ($7.5m) in its latest round of funding.
The round was led by Balderton Capital with participation from Holtzbrinck Ventures.
The funds will b... |
| - | RANKED: 31 companies unleashing the most exciting video games right now | LittleBigPlanet Media Molecule Europe has a vibrant video game industry, with countries like the UK, France, and Germany playing host to established companies as well as smaller, "indie" developers that work on some of the world's... |
| - | Toy figurines and hybrid learning app for kids play in €3.35 million for Munich’s women-led startup | Munich-based edtech startup Edurino has raised €3.35 million in a seed round. The round was led by btov Partners. Other backers include experienced VCs such as Emerge Education and Fabian and Ferry Heilemann through Pirate Impact. All exist... |
| - | Wooga announces their acquisition by leading mobile games company Playtika | A huge congratulations on behalf of Balderton to Jens Begemann and everyone at Wooga on today’s announced acquisition by Playtika.
Playtika is a great home for Wooga, with rapid growth, a great team and a complementary set of games. Both c... |
