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| 04.06.2019 | Sweden’s Stillfront acquires Canada-based gamedev company KIXEYE for $90 million | Swedish-founded game developer Stillfront has purchased Canada-based KIXEYE in an all-cash deal worth $90 million. Stillfront may pay up to $30 million on top of this based on the results of the financial year 2019.
KIXEYE is mostly known a... |
| 27.07.2018 | Kixeye enlists players to provide customer support for Battle Pirates | Kixeye launched its Battle Pirates strategy game on Facebook seven years ago, but the game still has a loyal following of 100,000 players. The audience isn’t big enough to serve with Kixeye’s own internal technical support team, but the San... |
| 27.07.2018 | Kixeye enlists players to provide customer support for Battle Pirates | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kixeye launched its Battle Pirates strategy game on Facebook seven years ago, but the game still has a loyal following of 100,000 playe... |
| 13.03.2018 | Kixeye Raises $20M in Funding | Kixeye, a San Francisco, CA-based online gaming company, raised $20m in funding.
The round was led by Icon Ventures wth participation from Ridge Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. In conjunction with the funding, J... |
| 12.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Monday, March 12 | SO LONG, VC
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| 12.03.2018 | KIXEYE Raises $20M |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, KIXEYE, announces today the closing of a $20M round led by Icon Ventures and joined by Ridge Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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| 09.03.2018 | Kixeye raises $20 million to bring machine learning to game marketing | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kixeye has raised $20 million in funding to apply machine learning to the marketing, monetization, and retention for its mobile games. ... |
| 09.03.2018 | Kixeye raises $20 million to bring machine learning to game marketing | Kixeye has raised $20 million in funding to apply machine learning to the marketing, monetization, and retention for its mobile games. San Francisco-based Kixeye made its name on Facebook and mobile with games like Backyard Monsters, War Co... |
| 22.12.2016 | After nearly 3 years of struggle, Kixeye launches its spectacular War Commander: Rogue Assault | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It took almost three years of development, but Kixeye is finally launching its ambitious mobile game War Commander: Rogue Assault. The ... |
| 21.09.2015 | Command & Conquer co-creator shows off Kixeye’s War Commander: Rogue Assault strategy game on mobile | Lou Castle, co-creator of series such as Command & Conquer, showed off his latest, War Commander: Rogue Assault, a real-time strategy game on mobile.
Castle, creative director at Kixeye, is building Rogue Assault in full 3D on the Unity... |
| 12.08.2015 | This service tells you what Supercell, Machine Zone, and other big publishers spend on user acquisition | 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!
Mobile user acquisition costs are soaring. But ho... |
| 12.08.2015 | This service tells you what Supercell, Machine Zone, and other big publishers spend on user acquisition | Mobile user acquisition costs are soaring. But how much is your competition spending?
According to our recent research, most mobile-first companies are trying to pay between $1 and $1.50 for users, but they are only getting quality users at... |
| 13.01.2015 | Online Gaming Giant Kixeye Holds Large Scale Layoffs, Cutting As Much As 25% Of Staff | Kixeye, the San Francisco-based online gaming giant, held layoffs yesterday as part of a larger reorganization of the company, sources tell TechCrunch.
According to two sources, more than 100 people representing as much as 25 percent of Kix... |
| 16.09.2014 | Kixeye CEO: We only use data science half of the time | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — Apparently, it’s OK to follow your whimsy sometimes when designing games.
That’s the spirit at online game studio Kixey... |
| 16.09.2014 | Kixeye CEO: We only use data science half of the time | SAN FRANCISCO — Apparently, it’s OK to follow your whimsy sometimes when designing games.
That’s the spirit at online game studio Kixeye, where data analysis plays into about 40 percent of the decision-making, with the rest based on intuiti... |
| 17.06.2013 | Why Gaming Is Still A Great Bet For Investors | Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001. After serving as Electronic Arts’ executive vice president of digital, he left three months ago to focus on startups. Today, he leads seed-stage invest... |
| 31.03.2013 | All Quiet On The Western Front: Gaming M&A May Be In A Lull As A New Generation Grows Up | When you step off the elevator into Kixeye’s new downtown San Francisco office, a guy in military fatigues has you sign an NDA. After you do (I didn’t), a receptionist with a lot of piercings takes your name, while The White Panda’s “Foolis... |
| 02.10.2012 | Kixeye takes ‘substantial corrective action’ after black contractor calls out alleged racist behavior at social gaming firm | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kixeye has been one of the fast-growing and highly profitable hardcore social game startups on Facebook, but a former black contractor ... |
| 27.08.2012 | ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Zynga | Zynga’s Mafia Wars, Farmville and Bubble Safari are enormously popular pastimes that helped define social/casual gaming. But faced with a changing market and an unpopular leader, can Zynga innovate its way out of the hole it keeps digging f... |
| 23.08.2012 | Kixeye Poaches CityVille GM Patmore From Zynga to be VP of Product | Zynga’s tanking stock price is everyone else’s gain.
Kixeye, the iconoclastic, midcore Facebook gaming company, just hired away the general manager of CityVille, Alan Patmore, to be its vice president of product. It’s a score for the compan... |
| 23.08.2012 | Kixeye steals away Zynga exec for its hardcore gaming | With Zynga’s company morale sinks as employees head for the door
The Zynga ship continues to take on water as it loses one of its general managers to competitor gaming company Kixeye. The social gaming startup Kixeye announcing Thursday tha... |
| 23.08.2012 | Kixeye steals a general manager from Zynga, rescuing him from the ‘dark side’ | It looks like the recruiting video that parodied Zynga as “Janka” worked. Social gaming startup Kixeye is announcing today that it has “stolen” the general manager of Zynga’s flagship CityVille game to serve as an executive in charge of gam... |
| 23.08.2012 | Kixeye steals a general manager from Zynga, rescuing him from the ‘dark side’ | 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!
It looks like the recruiting video that parodied ... |
| 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... |
| 09.07.2012 | Facebook App Center goes international, opens to all users | 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!
It seems like Facebook’s App Center is getting so... |
| 20.06.2012 | Facebook Adds App Subscription Payment Model | After its disappointing IPO last month cast doubts on the company’s ability to monetize its vast user base, Facebook today announced a subscription pricing model – potentially adding a recurring source of revenue for itself – and for develo... |
| 30.04.2012 | Why Casual Games Won’t Kill Hard-Core Gaming | Mass Effect. Grand Theft Auto. Halo. Farmville?
The gaming industry has long been dominated by franchises with hardware-crushing graphics, hundreds of hours of tightly scripted gameplay, and multiyear development budgets of $50 million or m... |
| 20.04.2012 | Event Marketing: The Key To F-Commerce? | Editor’s note: Patricia Nakache is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures where she invests in early stage social commerce and entertainment companies. Trinity Ventures is an investor in the following companies mentioned in this article: Bea... |
| 16.03.2012 | Kixeye quietly makes big bucks on hardcore Facebook games | At first glance, Kixeye looks puny as a social gaming company on Facebook. It has only 4.6 million users compared to Zynga‘s more than 240 million monthly active users.
But the San Francisco company has become a financial juggernaut because... |
| 16.03.2012 | Kixeye quietly makes big bucks on hardcore Facebook games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
At first glance, Kixeye looks puny as a social gaming company on Facebook. It has only 4.6 million users compared to Zynga‘s more than ... |
| 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... |
| 13.09.2011 | Kixeye’s War Commander brings real-time strategy to Facebook gaming | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kixeye is bringing real-time strategy games to Facebook today with the public beta launch of its War Commander title.
Inspired by games... |
| 13.09.2011 | Kixeye’s War Commander brings real-time strategy to Facebook gaming | Kixeye is bringing real-time strategy games to Facebook today with the public beta launch of its War Commander title.
Inspired by games like Command & Conquer on the PC, War Commander is aimed at recruiting a new generation of Facebook ... |
| 29.08.2011 | Zynga Co-founder Andrew Trader Joins VC Firm Maveron As A Venture Partner | Maveron, a VC firm with offices in Seattle and San Francisco, this morning announced that it has named Andrew Trader (who is often referred to simply as A.T.) as a partner. Trader actually joined Maveron back in 2010 as Entrepreneur-in-Resi... |
| 04.08.2011 | Facebook core-games maker Kixeye raises $18M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kixeye, a developer of social games on Facebook for core gamers, announced today that it has raised $18 million in its third round of f... |
| 04.08.2011 | Kixeye secures $18M for next generation gaming | The social game developer gets support from Jafco Ventures
Last week, social game developer Kixeye (formerly Casual Collective), got a pretty nice pat on the back from Norwest partner Tim Chang at the Casual Connect gaming conference in Sea... |
| 04.08.2011 | Kixeye Scores $18M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Kixeye, the San Francisco game studio behind the Facebook games Backyard Monster and Battle Pirates, said it has raised $18 million in a Series C financing round. Jafco Ventur... |
| 04.08.2011 | Social Game Developer Kixeye Raises $18 Million, Adds Zynga Co-founder Andrew Trader To Its Board | Back in April, game developer The Casual Collective rebranded as Kixeye and launched a new realtime strategy game called Battle Pirates. Since then, the startup has been hard at work on raising some new capital to expand its team and roll o... |
| 04.08.2011 | KIXEYE Raises $18m in Series C Funding | KIXEYE, a San Francisco, CA-based independent game developer, has raised $18m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Jafco Ventures, with participation from existing investors Trinity Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
In conjunct... |
| 04.08.2011 | KIXEYE Raises $18M in Series C |
Funding led by Jafco Ventures with previous investors Trinity Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating.
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| 27.07.2011 | Kixeye accuses Kabam of copying its Backyard Monsters game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook game makers frequently each other of copy-catting games. The latest accusation comes from Kixeye, which says that heavily-fund... |
| 27.07.2011 | Kixeye accuses Kabam of copying its Backyard Monsters game | Facebook game makers frequently each other of copy-catting games. The latest accusation comes from Kixeye, which says that heavily-funded Kabam has blatantly copied Kixeye’s big hit Backyard Monsters.
Kixeye, which is growing fast thanks to... |
| 25.07.2011 | Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offeri... |
| 25.07.2011 | Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offering and some recent acquisitions such as Electronic Arts’ $750 million purchase of PopCap Games. Tim Chang... |
| 28.04.2011 | Kixeye re-brands and pivots into hardcore social games with Battle Pirates | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kixeye, once known as Casual Collective, has pivoted in a big way into social games on Facebook for hardcore gamers. That’s a market th... |
| 28.04.2011 | Gaming Startup The Casual Collective Rebrands As Kixeye; Launches Battle Pirates On Facebook | Social gaming developer the Casual Collective is rebranding today as Kixeye and debuting a new game, Battle Pirates, today on Facebook. Battle Pirates is a real time strategy game featuring base building, exploration, and player vs. player ... |
| 28.04.2011 | Kixeye re-brands and pivots into hardcore social games with Battle Pirates | Kixeye, once known as Casual Collective, has pivoted in a big way into social games on Facebook for hardcore gamers. That’s a market that has been ignored by dominant social game firm Zynga, and it may prove to be a lucrative niche as more ... |
