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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
צוות vgames

Games-focused fund vgames raises $141 million

13.12.21|Meir Orbach
Since the launch of vgames by Eitan Reisel in March 2020, the fund has invested in 21 companies globally, making it one of the most active game funds in the world
Sneaky Panda Founders

Sneaky Panda raises $6 million to launch new mobile gaming genre

02.12.21|James Spiro
The game developer will introduce the “Luck-Puzzler” genre, which puts more emphasis on skill and strategy than current mobile games in the market
צוות מון אקטיב Moon Active

Moon Active valuation surges to $5 billion on back of $300 million Insight funding

23.11.21|Meir Orbach
The Israeli gaming company is expecting revenue of over $1.5 billion in 2021. Insight Partners invested $125 million in the company at a $1.25 billion valuation less than two years ago
Khaled Zbidat

Flare helping streamers turn live gaming into sports broadcasting

23.11.21|Daniel Farber-Ball
The local startup, founded by two Israeli-Arab students, uses AI to give streamers the tools which high-end sports productions use. CEO Khaled Zbidat: “Streamers need to focus on their viewers and playing well”
צוות Overwolf

Overwolf raises $75 million from a16z to strengthen in-game creator ecosystem

17.11.21|CTech
The Israeli company's platform enables creators to build, distribute, and monetize in-game apps and mods
צוות Beach Bum מימין גיל לוי הסמנכלית קרן מרום והמנכ"ל שחר שצלקה

Israeli gaming startup Beach Bum acquired by France's Voodoo for $500 million

30.09.21|Sophie Shulman
Beach Bum, which develops mobile games based on popular board games like backgammon, has raised around just $3 million since it was founded in 2015
סטרים אלמנטס StreamElements

StreamElements raises $100 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

22.09.21|CTech
The Israeli-founded company develops engagement and monetization tools for live and Video on Demand (VOD) content creators and has experienced accelerated growth during the pandemic
Jan Feuerhake Salary Partner Hamburg aylor Wessing and Nathan Krapivensky Senior Counsel Tel

New opportunities abound for online gambling businesses

19.09.21|Jan Feuerhake and Nathan Krapivensky
Israel has long been one of the world's leading exporters of online gambling and casino companies, a sector that has boomed during the pandemic
מתוך המשחק רובלוקס

Female-founded gaming studio Toya raises $4 million to fuel diverse growth on Roblox

09.09.21|CTech
Drive by DraftKings led the round, which also included Remagine Ventures, early Roblox investor Craig Sherman, and NFL legend Eli Manning
הסטארט אפ פלאריום פלריום Plarium

The fairytale story of a $500 million payday

05.09.21|Diana Bahur-Nir and Meir Orbach
No one expected that Haim Torpiashvili, who moved to Israel from Georgia at the age of 10 and saw his parents struggle to make ends meet, would achieve a half a billion-dollar exit with his twin brother at the age of 30
רוברט אנטוקול מייסד ומנכ"ל פלייטיקה עם לוגו החברה

Playtika entering home design market with $600 million acquisition of Reworks

01.09.21|CTech
The Israeli gaming company believes the purchase of the maker of hit design entertainment app Redecor will contribute approximately $30 million to its 2021 revenue
Uri Marchand

Overwolf launches $50 million creator fund for in-app game creators and studios

17.08.21|James Spiro
The fund will support the projects and work of in-game app creators, authors, and game studios
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