Date | Title | Description | Source |
09.01.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 1/9/16 | Apple bought Emotient; Intel purchased Ascending Technologies; Apple acquired Emotient
RNTS Media, ... | vator.tv/n... |
08.01.2016 | RNTS Media completes $45M acquisition of Heyzap | The combined company of Heyzap and Fyber will have 500M monthly active users
(Updated with comment ... | vator.tv/n... |
08.01.2016 | Fyber Acquires Heyzap for $45M | Rnts Media N.V., the parent company of Fyber GmbH, a Berlin, Germany-based mobile advertising techno... | finsmes.co... |
07.01.2016 | RNTS Media Completes $45M Acquisition Of Mobile Ad Company H... | The deal is done — Germany company RNTS Media says it has completed its acquisition of Heyzap.
The ... | techcrunch... |
26.12.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 12/26/15 | Microsoft bought Talko; Kik acquired Blynk; Salesforce purchased SteelBrick
Kik, a Canadian mobile ... | vator.tv/n... |
23.12.2015 | RNTS Media buys mobile ad network Heyzap for $45M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
23.12.2015 | RNTS Media buys mobile ad network Heyzap for $45M | Heyzap, a provider of mobile advertising for app developers, has been acquired by RNTS Media in a mo... | venturebea... |
20.03.2015 | Kickpay Is A Marketplace For Invoices That Helps SMEs Get Pa... | Cash flow is all important for small businesses — it’s the difference between life or death — so it ... | techcrunch... |
23.10.2014 | Heyzap launches transparent mediation for mobile ad networks | Developers see the value in feeding a lot of different kinds of ads to people playing mobile games. ... | venturebea... |
23.10.2014 | Heyzap launches transparent mediation for mobile ad networks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
02.05.2014 | Heyzap Is Killing Its Standalone “Social Discovery” Apps For... | Mobile ad network Heyzap is shutting down its standalone applications, company CEO Immad Akund confi... | techcrunch... |
18.06.2013 | Homejoy Announces A Perks Program, So Companies Can Pay To C... | As startups compete for the best talent, Homejoy is announcing a way for companies to offer employee... | techcrunch... |
16.04.2013 | Heyzap Launches An AppData-Like Leaderboard For Mobile Games... | While Apple’s app store and Google Play have long had leaderboards for the most downloaded and lucra... | techcrunch... |
22.03.2013 | Heyzap Introduces Ads To Its Mobile Gaming Network | Heyzap, a Y Combinator-incubated social platform for mobile games, is releasing a software developme... | techcrunch... |
27.02.2013 | The PlayStation 4 is copying tablets, and I like it | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
07.01.2013 |
HeyZap Raises $4.3M From Qualcomm, Others
| HeyZap, the developer of mobile applications used to connect people with social games and each other... | socaltech.... |
05.01.2013 | Social gaming platform Heyzap raises $4.3 million | With Zynga on the ropes, there is a big opportunity in the social gaming space
(Updated to reflect ... | vator.tv/n... |
04.01.2013 | Mobile Gaming Platform Heyzap Confirms $4.3M Round From Unio... | Heyzap, which built a social platform for mobile games, has raised $4.3 million in Series B funding.... | techcrunch... |
28.11.2012 | Heyzap Expands Its Mobile Gaming Platform With Leaderboards,... | Heyzap continues to build out its social platform with the addition of player leaderboards that deve... | techcrunch... |
28.11.2012 | Heyzap debuts leaderboards to show who dominates mobile game... | Heyzap has launched leaderboards, a much-needed feature to the company’s mobile platform, which star... | venturebea... |
15.10.2012 | Heyzap (YC W09) launches the easiest way for mobile gamers t... | Heyzap has convinced more than 8.5 million mobile gamers to download its social app for mobile games... | blog.ycomb... |
11.10.2012 | Heyzap’s ‘Play With Friends’ Feature Connects You With Other... | Heyzap has added a cool new feature to its social platform for mobile games — the ability to actuall... | techcrunch... |
11.10.2012 | Heyzap launches a ‘play with friends’ feature for multiplaye... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
09.03.2012 | Fun Friday: Mobile Games | It's friday, time to talk about something fun. Today I thought I'd talk about mobile games.
I've ne... | avc.com/20... |
07.03.2012 | Heyzap Launches An API, Uses It To Build A Mobile Gaming Map | Heyzap, a startup that allows users to check in as they play their favorite mobile games, is now rel... | techcrunch... |
05.03.2012 | Heyzap’s Amazing 404 Page, Created In A Day | Gaming startup Heyzap has found a way to take some of the pain out of stumbling on a 404 error messa... | techcrunch... |
20.01.2012 | Heyzap Announces Mobile Gaming Partners: PocketGems And More | Gaming startup Heyzap first launched its social discovery service for mobile games nearly a year ago... | techcrunch... |
20.01.2012 | Heyzap unveils 12 partners for its social discovery network ... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
22.11.2011 | The top 10 Thanksgiving mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
12.10.2011 | Heyzap creates game launcher for Android phones | Heyzap has released version 3 of its game check-in app, adding functions that make it a lot easier f... | venturebea... |
12.10.2011 | Heyzap creates game launcher for Android phones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
05.08.2011 | ‘Game For Kittens’ And HeyZap Team Up For A Good Cause | Here’s your chance to let your kitten help other animals, using nothing other than its feline reflex... | techcrunch... |
20.07.2011 | Heyzap Brings Location Awareness And Netflix-Style Recommend... | Heyzap, the social discovery platform for mobile and online games, has been hard at work adding piec... | techcrunch... |
20.07.2011 | Heyzap launches free personalized game recommendations on An... | Heyzap is expanding its offerings as a mobile platform provider. At first, it enabled users to “chec... | venturebea... |
20.07.2011 | Heyzap launches free personalized game recommendations on An... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
30.06.2011 | Tictacti secures funding to take on Heyzap in game aggregati... | A lot of companies would like to get on the flash games bandwagon but have no core competency to do ... | techcrunch... |
03.06.2011 | Heyzap Brings Social Discovery And Check-In For Games To The... | Heyzap, a social discovery platform for mobile and online games, announced today that it’s zapping i... | techcrunch... |
03.06.2011 | Game check-in app Heyzap lands on iPhone | Heyzap, an online network that lets gamers “check in” to games, has finally launched an app for t... | venturebea... |
28.04.2011 | Heyzap scores 4.6M users in two months for mobile game check... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
28.04.2011 | Heyzap scores 4.6M users in two months for mobile game check... | Heyzap launched a way for gamers to “check in” to mobile games on Android a couple of months ago and... | venturebea... |
16.03.2011 | Heyzap lets users “check-in” to Android games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
16.03.2011 | Heyzap lets users “check-in” to Android games | Shifting to the hot mobile market, social game platform firm Heyzap is launching a “check in” networ... | venturebea... |
16.03.2011 | HeyZap Goes After Social Discovery, Launches Check-in For Mo... | Heyzap, a monetization and distribution platform for online casual games, announced today that it’s ... | techcrunch... |
08.12.2010 | MindJolt Partners With BIM To Bring Games To 900 Local News ... | MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris De... | techcrunch... |
29.11.2010 | MyYearbook Introduces Realtime Social Gaming With Video Chat | In general, the key driver of social networking so far is games on Facebook. But most of those games... | techcrunch... |
07.10.2010 | 33 ways to make your app a hit: VentureBeat’s Discovery Dire... | As app stores multiply and the number of publicly released apps — just the ones we can see and count... | venturebea... |
28.09.2010 | Great Bus Dev Job In San Francisco | Our portfolio HeyZap brings games and game play to places on the web you don’t usually find them. Th... | avc.com/20... |
12.08.2010 | Online game distribution co. Heyzap launches HTML5 support | Online games platform company Heyzap is announcing today that its platform will support games that a... | venturebea... |
12.08.2010 | HeyZap Launches Support For HTML5 Games | HeyZap, a startup that offers game developers a distribution platform and a variety of social tools,... | techcrunch... |
21.07.2010 | Heyzap Arcade delivers "games portal in a box" | Heyzap is launching a way to simplify that non-game companies can add games to their web sites with ... | venturebea... |
21.07.2010 | Heyzap Arcade delivers "games portal in a box" | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
21.07.2010 | Heyzap Arcade Allows Publishers To Easily Add An Interactive... | Many publishers want to add social games to their sites but widgets aren’t customizable enough. And ... | techcrunch... |
24.06.2010 | Heyzap (W09) raises $3M round for social game platform expan... | Full article via games.venturebeat.com
Congrats Immad and Jude! | blog.ycomb... |
23.06.2010 | Heyzap raises $3M round for social game platform expansion | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
23.06.2010 | Heyzap raises $3M round for social game platform expansion | Heyzap has raised $3 million to beef up its platform and help Facebook game developers port their ga... | venturebea... |
23.06.2010 | HeyZap Lands Another $3 Million In Funding | HeyZap, a startup that distributes casual and social games across the web through a set of APIs, app... | techcrunch... |
16.06.2010 | After Going Premium, Ning Adds E-Commerce And Gaming Revenue... | It’s been no secret that social network platform Ning has been going through a significant transitio... | techcrunch... |
09.06.2010 | The startup con man | Two weeks ago, several tech publications wrote about DinglePharb, an exciting new social gaming deve... | venturebea... |
09.06.2010 | The startup con man | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
20.04.2010 | HeyZap Launches A 'Meebo Bar' For Social Games | Web publishers looking to capitalize on the growth in social and casual gaming just got an easier wa... | techcrunch... |
20.04.2010 | Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap Social Games Bar | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
20.04.2010 | Boring website? Step on up to the Heyzap Social Games Bar | Heyzap is announcing today that it is launching a “social games bar” that companies can integrate in... | venturebea... |
23.03.2010 | Heyzap lets Facebook game developers publish their games to ... | Heyzap is liberating games from Facebook, allowing social game makers to publish them directly on th... | venturebea... |
23.03.2010 | HeyZap Now Lets Social Games Expand Beyond Facebook's Walls | HeyZap, the startup that makes it easy for publishers to integrate casual games into their sites, is... | techcrunch... |
23.03.2010 | Heyzap lets Facebook game developers publish their games to ... | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
26.01.2010 | Heyzap’s new menu bar makes Flash games more social | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
26.01.2010 | Heyzap’s new menu bar makes Flash games more social | Unveiling more of its social platform for Flash games, Heyzap is announcing today that it is launchi... | venturebea... |
24.12.2009 | 5 o’clock roundup: Tablet rumors heat up Apple shares, NORAD... | Here’s the latest action:
Talk of an Apple event in January has sent the company’s shares to an all... | venturebea... |
24.12.2009 | 5 o’clock roundup: Tablet rumors heat up Apple shares, NORAD... | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI an... | venturebea... |
01.12.2009 | Heyzap makes Flash-based web games more social | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
01.12.2009 | Heyzap makes Flash-based web games more social | Heyzap wants to create the same kind of monetization ecosystem for Flash games as exists with Facebo... | venturebea... |
01.12.2009 | Heyzap Brings Xbox Live-Style Achievements To Flash Gaming | One of the long-standing problems with Flash games is that they often have a very short shelf life: ... | techcrunch... |
02.11.2009 | Webs.com Launches Its Own Application Platform And App Store | Site builder Webs.com (formerly known as Freewebs) is launching a new App Store today with the hopes... | techcrunch... |
21.10.2009 | HeyZap Helps Flash Games Go Viral With New API, Launches Ana... | Social gaming companies like Zynga and Playdom have proven that casual/social gaming can be an extre... | techcrunch... |
16.09.2009 | A Nice Post by Fred Wilson | The Best Deal In Startup Land
Sarah Lacy has a post up on Techcrunch about Paul Graham and Y Combin... | blog.ycomb... |
15.09.2009 | The Best Deal In Startup Land | Sarah Lacy has a post up on Techcrunch about Paul Graham and Y Combinator. In the post, she says:
I... | avc.com/20... |
01.09.2009 | Foursquare | We recently wrote about our search for native mobile applications, which we defined as applications ... | usv.com/wr... |
19.08.2009 | Heyzap's Flash Payment Platform Now Gives Publishers A Cut O... | Last June, Heyzap, the Y Combinator-funded startup that builds products around Flash gaming, launche... | techcrunch... |
23.07.2009 | Y Combinator's Mixpanel Takes Stat Tracking Beyond Google An... | One of the most key steps to building a succesful startup is figuring out what works — and what does... | techcrunch... |
23.07.2009 | Mixpanel: A faster, simpler Google Analytics? | A startup called Mixpanel is launching today with an analytics service that it says can help compani... | venturebea... |
21.07.2009 | Can this save the Flash game market? Mochi Media launches vi... | Flash games on the web started out as a hobby. Now there are tens of thousands of them that, through... | venturebea... |
03.07.2009 | HeyZap's Looking For A Strong Software Engineer In SF | Our newest portfolio company, HeyZap, is looking for the fourth member of their team. HeyZap is a pl... | avc.com/20... |
25.06.2009 | Heyzap introduces virtual goods system for Flash web games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn m... | venturebea... |
25.06.2009 | Heyzap introduces virtual goods system for Flash web games | Flash games supported by advertising have been hit hard by the recession. But Heyzap hopes to help t... | venturebea... |
25.06.2009 | Flash Gaming Payments Heat Up: Heyzap Launches Microtransact... | Heyzap, the Y Combinator startup that offers an easily-embedded widget containing thousands of Flash... | techcrunch... |
03.06.2009 | An inside look at Heyzap | Heyzap just received seed funding from Union Square Ventures. Let's take a look at what it's up to.
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28.05.2009 | Let's Play Some Games Today | I had some technical issues with this blog yesterday afternoon that got in the way of doing this as ... | avc.com/20... |
27.05.2009 | Heyzap Closes Seed Funding Round For Its Flash Gaming Widget | Heyzap, the Y Combinator startup that’s looking to become a “YouTube For Flash Games“, has closed a ... | techcrunch... |
27.05.2009 | Heyzap | Our firm, Union Square Ventures, just announced our most recent investment in a YCombinator backed s... | avc.com/20... |
26.05.2009 | Heyzap | Online casual games are a large and rapidly growing form of entertainment. According to Comscore ove... | usv.com/wr... |
29.04.2009 | Swine Flu: The New Startup Monetization Plan | Over the last few days, the TechCrunch tips box has been flooded with pitches from companies looking... | techcrunch... |
18.03.2009 | Y Combinator Demo Day: Simple cloud management, real-time en... | If anyone’s feeling depressed about the future of Silicon Valley innovation, I’d suggest sneaking in... | venturebea... |
18.03.2009 | Y Combinator Demo Day Spring 2009 | The 16 startups from Y Combinator’s spring session presented their ideas and initial products at Y C... | techcrunch... |
17.03.2009 | Nonoba Enters The Flash Games Arena With GameRise, A "N... | We already had HeyZap, the “YouTube for Flash games” and Game Curry, a search engine for Flash games... | techcrunch... |
17.03.2009 | Y Combinator set to fund more startups | Seed-stage investment fund is going to Party like it's 2009
Y Combinator, a seed-stage investment f... | vator.tv/n... |
09.03.2009 | TicTacTi Employs Image Recognition for In-Game Widget Ads | Casual games may see a vast amount of traffic, but monetizing them can be more than a little tricky ... | techcrunch... |
15.01.2009 | Heyzap Vies To Become A 'YouTube For Flash Games' | There are countless Flash games on the web, but weeding through them to find the one you’re looking ... | techcrunch... |