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A Thinking Ape is a small yet driven team that has built some of the strongest mobile game communities in the world.
With our collaborative approach to product design, we ensure the best ideas get the space they need to grow.
Our team seeks out intuitive solutions to complex problems, and maintains strong ties to our hacker culture.
We focus on really challenging technical problems — a few areas in which we’ve innovated include: backend distributed systems to support millions of players, sophisticated analytics infrastructure, virtual economic theory, graphics and animation pipelines, and building complex emergent behavior in online communities. We are currently one of the highest-grossing mobile developers in the world.
We're always looking for amazingly talented individuals to join our team. Check out our current openings at http://www.athinkingape.com/jobs
Our customer support team can be contacted at [email protected]
With our collaborative approach to product design, we ensure the best ideas get the space they need to grow.
Our team seeks out intuitive solutions to complex problems, and maintains strong ties to our hacker culture.
We focus on really challenging technical problems — a few areas in which we’ve innovated include: backend distributed systems to support millions of players, sophisticated analytics infrastructure, virtual economic theory, graphics and animation pipelines, and building complex emergent behavior in online communities. We are currently one of the highest-grossing mobile developers in the world.
We're always looking for amazingly talented individuals to join our team. Check out our current openings at http://www.athinkingape.com/jobs
Our customer support team can be contacted at [email protected]
Overview
Location
Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver
Employees
51-200
Founded date
2008
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 10
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| Mar 23, 2021 | U.S. player banned from virtual-world game sues B.C. company for $5,000 | Article content A U.S. woman who for years played and socialized in a “virtual world” computer game asked the B.C. courts to push the reset button for her after she was banished for breaking the game’s rules. |
| Jun 16, 2014 | Delta Financial Offers Interest-Bearing Bitcoin Accounts | You can trade bitcoin to make money, but earning income by simply saving the digital currency in a risk-free account hasn’t been an option so far, since interest-bearing cryptocurrency savings accounts are rarer than hens’ teeth. Now, thoug... |
| Jan 31, 2014 | A 4-year-old top-grossing game? How Kingdoms At War is still making money years after launch | In the fast-paced world of mobile games, you usually sink or swim — fast. And even if you swim, it’s only for a short while. So how has A Thinking Ape‘s Kingdoms at War stayed so high for so long? Kingdoms at War was the eighth-highest gros... |
| Jan 31, 2014 | A 4-year-old top-grossing game? How Kingdoms At War is still making money years after launch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. In the fast-paced world of mobile games, you usually sink or swim — fast. And even if you swim, it’s only for a short while. So how has... |
| Dec 23, 2013 | Two Canadian Gaming Studios Raise $180,000 for Philippines Disaster Relief | While Toronto grapples with the effects of one unfortunate weather-related event in the ice storm, a few Canadian gaming studios still haven’t forgotten another recent event half-way around the world. Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the is... |
| Aug 22, 2012 | Vancouver: Hollywood North’s tech scene is growing, growing, not yet grown | Hollywood North? L.A. with rain? The city that riots whenever its hockey team doesn’t win the Stanley Cup? Americans might think of Vancouver in many ways — but typically not as a tech startup mecca. And yet Summify, A Thinking Ape, OpenCal... |
| Jul 23, 2012 | BC Tech Fair delivers online job fair | Article content Looking for a job in British Columbia’s tech sector? Check out the BC Tech Fair – a job fair starting tomorrow morning that doesn’t even require you get out of your pyjamas to attend. We apologize, but this video has failed ... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | Why You Should Give Your Employees More Responsibility | I visited Vancouver’s A Thinking Ape on a Wednesday afternoon, just in time for lunch: Peruvian subs from a deli across the street. People milled around the open-concept office, sitting on red bean bag chairs and couches with gorilla pillow... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | BC's 'Ready to Rocket' companies to watch in 2012 | Article content Social media and mobile technology dominated the information and communications sector in the tenth annual ‘Ready to Rocket’ lists of British Columbia companies poised for explosive growth. The Ready to Rocket lists, compile... |
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FAQ about A Thinking Ape
When was A Thinking Ape founded?
A Thinking Ape was founded in 2008.
What has the press written about A Thinking Ape?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning A Thinking Ape, among them “U.S. player banned from virtual-world game sues B.C. company for $5,000” (Mar 23, 2021) and “Delta Financial Offers Interest-Bearing Bitcoin Accounts” (Jun 16, 2014).
Is A Thinking Ape still active?
Yes, A Thinking Ape is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 11, 2021.