Comments on: Following the Playfish exit, social games developer wooga secures a further €5 million funding

By: Startup-Metropole und Silicon Valley-Pendant: Wann begann die Berlin-Euphorie? » netzwertig.com

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:45:48 +0000

[...] Ereignisse gab, die den beschriebenen Schneeball ins Rollen brachten. Die auch im Ausland beachtete Fünf-Millionen-Euro-Kapitalspritze für wooga im November 2009 könnte ein wichtiger Momenta gewesen sein. Und im Mai 2009 stellte deutsche-startups.de fest, dass [...]

By: Facebook Games Developer MegaZebra Closes ‘Multi-Million’ Euro Funding Round | JetLib News

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:19:59 +0000

[...] rivals social game developers like Playfish and Wooga here in Europe – the latter has raised over $7.5 million in financing from investors like [...]

By: Facebook games developer MegaZebra closes ‘multi-million’ euro funding round

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:34:41 +0000

[...] rivals social game developers like Playfish and Wooga here in Europe – the latter has raised over $7.5 million in financing from investors like [...]

By: German Facebook clone StudiVZ adds support for 3rd party apps – user privacy is paramount

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:37:43 +0000

[...] 15.7m users of StudiVZ and its siblings MeinVZ and SchülerVZ can now play games from Plinga or Wooga, sing online Karaoke with Mikestar or order Italian food from Pizza.de. After 12 months of [...]

By: Richard Ressler

Richard Ressler — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:58:11 +0000

We are developing a new social game to be launched on Facebook. Unlike many of the “copy-cat” attempts that are popping up, this will be an original game which will not only have the most loved traditional game play and features but will also introduce new concepts of game play to the social games industry.

In additiona…l we will not be using “offers” at all to generate revenue and will be taking a completely new approach to gaining advertising revenue.

We are seeking one investor to accelerate our development timeline. We are looking for someone who can invest $25,000 and in return said investor will receive 5% of all revenue generated by the game including revenue generated by advertising.

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By: You’ve heard of Zynga – now meet Plinga, the lastest clone from the Samwers

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:52:02 +0000

[...] Electronic Arts’ $300 million acquisition of Playfish, a $43 million investment at Playdom and €5 million ($7.5m) additional funding for Wooga, comes the fourth investment in the last week: The Samwer [...]

By: SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS Market Nut

SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS Market Nut — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:42:02 +0000

[...] Playfish, Zynga, Plaaydom, wooga: social gaming is HOT! (WSJ) (TechCrunch) [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:14:17 +0000

Congratulations guys! Look forward to seeing your products in the future!

By: Harkirat Singh Bedi

Harkirat Singh Bedi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:47:40 +0000

These software product development companies must be the ones that have experience on German as a language for coding and communication. Language does make a difference on the total cost of development. But the right offshore outsourcing strategy can make a difference too. So, yes, Barrick and kayoone, the investors should have looked at other cheaper options.

By: kayoone

kayoone — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:18:43 +0000

zynga has near 100M users in total and a already a bunch of games in total but yeah, its a growing market i know

By: karamel

karamel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:03:59 +0000

social gaming companies like zynga have more than 150 employees for their flash games. it’s a growing industry and surprisingly, there are more casual gamers than there are “real” gamers if you look at the numbers.

By: kayoone

kayoone — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:15:40 +0000

still those are lame flash games…many professional game studios working on “real” games for consoles and pc have less employees than that. But whatever, hope they can build something out of that money.

By: Bilbo

Bilbo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:45:29 +0000

I think you are missing the point that this isnt the only game they are working on.

By: kayoone

kayoone — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:01:59 +0000

why on earth do you need 25 People for a game like brain buddies ? i could do something like that with 5 people in 2 month…
5 million is a large sum for a small company like this, wonder how much stake the investors got for their money

By: Wooga wraps up 7.5 Million « Social Game News

Wooga wraps up 7.5 Million « Social Game News — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:52:00 +0000

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By: Barrick

Barrick — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:22:08 +0000

Business Model? 5 million funding for 1 game? Are we seeing the third bubble grow and burst soon? Do we ever learn from the past? Odd…

By: Wooga recibe 5M

Wooga recibe 5M — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:25:13 +0000

[...] desarrollador de juegos sociales Wooga, con sede en Berlín, ha obtenido una ronda de financiación de 5 millones de euros. La compañía obtuvo una ronda anterior el pasado mes de [...]