| Date | Title | Description |
| 03.09.2020 | Avo raises $3M for its analytics governance platform | Avo, a startup that helps businesses better manage their data quality across teams, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed round led by GGV Capital, with participation from Heavybit, Y Combinator and others.
The company’s foun... |
| 20.09.2018 | Teatime Games is Nominated for Startup of the Year/Best Newcomer by Nordic Startup Awards | Mobile Games Going More Social Is the New Gaming Trend
By believing that mobile game players will find a more social and personalized experience while playing very satisfactory, the Icelandic startup Teatime Games is aiming to revolutioniz... |
| 23.12.2016 | Glu Mobile acquires QuizUp in deal valued at $7.5 million | The developers of popular celeb-themed games including Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and Nicki Minaj: The Empire, Glu Mobile, acquired Plain Vanilla Corp., and its mobile social trivia game QuizUp this week, according to an SEC filing.
The deal... |
| 22.12.2016 | Glu acquires Plain Vanilla, the studio behind QuizUP | Plain Vanilla had raised over $40M, but was sold for just $1.2M after closing shop in August
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser, Founder &... |
| 05.05.2016 | Nordic Startup Awards finalists announced | The semi-finals of the Nordic Startup Awards are now finished. This series of events promotes and celebrates startups in the Nordic region. Country winners are chosen for each country, and the finalists move upwards to a grand ceremony held... |
| 22.01.2016 | Plain Vanilla Raises up to $7.5M from Glu Mobile | Plain Vanilla Corp., the Reykjavik, Iceland-based mobile gaming developer behind QuizUp, raised up to $7.5m in promissory notes convertible into a minority equity stake from Glu Mobile Inc. (NASDAQ:GLUU), a global developer and publisher of... |
| 21.01.2016 | Glu announces $7.5M investment in QuizUp developer ahead of TV show, may lead to a full 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-game publisher Glu Mobile (Glu) has announ... |
| 21.01.2016 | Glu Mobile To Invest Up To $7.5 Million In QuizUp, With Option To Acquire | QuizUp, the Icelandic company that put trivia in an app, has announced that it is receiving up to $7.5 million in funding from Glu Mobile, with an option to call to acquire.
This comes in the wake of a partnership forged between NBC and Qui... |
| 21.08.2015 | QuizUp Looks To Gamify Corporate Learning With QuizUp At Work | Work isn’t all about fun and games, but QuizUp is trying as hard as it can to change that.
The popular and frustratingly addictive trivia game is announcing a new initiative today to change corporate learning with QuizUp at Work. The progra... |
| 03.07.2015 | Could QuizUp be the new Tinder? The French seem to think so, as it surges to #1 in France’s App store | Plain Vanilla Games have had quite the journey with QuizUp, after a wildly popular (and short) period as the game that everyone was playing, they recently pivoted and positioned themselves more as a Social Network. Now, it appears that a fu... |
| 18.06.2015 | QuizUp Launches On Windows Mobile Phones | QuizUp, the trivia app with over 33 million users worldwide, announced today that it’s releasing an app for Windows phones.
First released as an iOS app, QuizUp quickly became a runaway hit with over 1.5 million signups in its first two wee... |
| 21.05.2015 | QuizUp Just Turned Into A Social Network | QuizUp is now a social network, by every stretch of the imagination.
Following a massive update today, the trivia game that trail-blazed through the App Store in 2013, is now introducing true social functionality on a core level.
QuizUp ori... |
| 21.04.2015 | Cast your vote for Nordic Startup Awards | Danish Drinkster won the ‘Student Startup Award’ at Nordic Startup Awards 2012 You can now take part in deciding who should be praised at the Nordic startup scene.
The voting for Nordic Startup Awards 2015 is now open. Among other things y... |
| 15.04.2015 | QuizUp morphs into WeQuiz to take on the mammoth Chinese market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
China is one of the biggest markets in the world for mobile gaming, and that has developers giving it extra attention when they localiz... |
| 23.01.2015 | Millennials’ Favorite Trivia Game Dominates App Store Charts | Trivia Crack, a game-show style quiz app that launched in Argentina, is swiftly taking over schools and college campuses around the world.
For months, Trivia Crack has been one of the most popular apps in American app stores, currently topp... |
| 24.09.2014 | Qzzr Launches Out Of Stealth With ESPN, Yahoo Partnerships And $2 Million In Seed Funding | Online quiz master Josh Little started Qzzr just five months ago out of his home in Utah. The site officially launches today with an infusion of $2 million in seed money and partnerships from ESPN, Yahoo, Mashable, Reddit, College Humor and... |
| 11.06.2014 | Trivia App QuizUp Passes 20 Million Users, Is Now Available In Five Different Languages | Trivia app QuizUp is making good on its global expansion plans, adding new languages and geo-specific content to go along with it. That effort comes as the company passed 20 million users, with most of its growth coming from international u... |
| 04.06.2014 | SportsQuest Wants To Be QuizUp For Sport, With A Few Twists | QuizUp is a challenge-style game that was released last September and has created a lot of buzz around its social model. The massive take-up it achieved demonstrated that there was a market for competitive, real-time quiz apps. A few new ap... |
| 02.06.2014 | OneSky’s Platform Makes Translating Apps Easy | App translation and localization service OneSky‘s best-known clients include Scribd and QuizUp. With so many app translation providers out there, however, how does OneSky differentiate? Co-founder Loki Ng says the startup, which is based in... |
| 03.04.2014 | Trivia app Quizup's branded categories & Google team-up hint at future money-making model | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Trivia app Quizup today quietly expanded into new territory with the launch of branded topics, the first of which involves a major play... |
| 24.03.2014 | (Correction) QuizUp developer Plain Vanilla buzzes in for $21.9M funding round (corrected) | Correction: According to Plain Vanilla, the Securities and Exchange Commission document it filed on March 17 is for its $22 million funding round from December. We apologize for the error.
The question-asking business is doing pretty well t... |
| 20.03.2014 | Quizup gets 1M new players after a week on Android — and sets sights on other markets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Quizup’s success story isn’t ending anytime soon.
Just a week after launching its popular free trivia app on Android, Plain Vanilla Gam... |
| 20.03.2014 | Trivia App QuizUp Gains 1 Million New Signups After A Week On Android | Sometimes lightning does strike twice. Mobile trivia app QuizUp gained a million new signups in its first week on Android. With 100,000 new signups daily, that success on Android follows its initial launch on iOS, where it also racked up a ... |
| 06.03.2014 | Pop quiz, Android hotshots: QuizUp launches to make you feel smart (or stupid) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Q: Which popular iPhone quiz game is finally headed to Android?
A: Quizup, the free head-to-head quiz game from Iceland’s Plain Vanilla... |
| 06.02.2014 | After Reaching 10 Million Users On The iPhone, QuizUp Launches A Big And Beautiful iPad App | QuizUp, the ultra-popular iPhone trivia game, just got bigger. Literally bigger.
Plain Vanilla Games, the maker of QuizUp, has launched a new version of its app today that is optimized for the iPad. By doing so, they’ve been able to make th... |
| 27.12.2013 | Plain Vanilla Games Raises $22M in Funding | Plain Vanilla Games, the San Francisco, CA- and Reykjavik, Iceland-based creator of the iPhone game QuizUp, raised $22m in funding.
Backers included existing investors Tencent Holdings and Sequoia Capital.
The company, which has now raised ... |
| 26.12.2013 | QuizUp developer raises $22 million in latest funding round | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Plain Vanilla Games has just ended a Series B funding round that will add $22 million to its coffers.
The developer, which is responsib... |
| 26.12.2013 | Plain Vanilla Games, Maker Of Ultra-Hot Trivia App QuizUp, Raises Another $22 Million From Sequoia | Plain Vanilla Games, the company behind ultra-hot trivia app QuizUp, has raised a $22 million Series B Round of financing. The financing was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from all existing investors, including Tencent, Greycrof... |
| 25.11.2013 | QuizUp Sends Personal User Info To Strangers, Company Says Bug Contributed To Weakened Security | It’s only been two-and-a-half weeks since hit mobile trivia app QuizUp began to take the world by storm. It’s fun, and it’s addictive*… but if you haven’t started playing yet, you might want to wait a little bit before downloading the app a... |
| 21.11.2013 | Plain Vanilla Games Raises $2M in Funding | Plain Vanilla Games, the San Francisco and Reykjavik, Iceland-based developer of the social trivia platform QuizUp, raised $2m in funding.
Backers included Sequoia Capital and eVentures.
Led by Thor Fridriksson, founder and CEO, Plain Vanil... |
| 20.11.2013 | QuizUp trivia game maker Plain Vanilla raises $2M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Plain Vanilla Games, the creator of the QuizUp iPhone game that it calls the “biggest trivia game in the world,” has raised $2 million ... |
| 20.11.2013 | How Plain Vanilla Games, Maker Of Hit App QuizUp, Took Two Years To Create An Overnight Success | Stop me if you’ve heard this story before: A mobile game studio toils in obscurity for several years creating apps that no one seems to care about, and then one day it introduces its new project to the world… and it becomes an instant hit.
... |
| 08.11.2013 | Startup News: Apply For An Apartment With Lovely And Toms Launches Feel-Good Store | “Manhattan views.” [Photo: Lovely]Find your apartment finder Scrolling through disgusting and/or terrifying Craigslist apartment ads has become an unfortunate initiation ritual for NYC newcomers. But just in case you’re maybe, sort of, kind... |
| 09.04.2013 | Plain Vanilla Scores $2.4M Series A To Turn Its Multiplayer Quiz Games Into Something More | A year ago, Icelandic game studio Plain Vanilla had hit a wall. The product they’d poured their hearts into for months had fallen from the charts almost immediately after launch, and they were just weeks from running out of cash.
This morni... |
| 09.04.2013 | Plain Vanilla Raises $2.4M in Series A Funding | Plain Vanilla Corp., a San Francisco and Reykjavik, Iceland-based developer of a social trivia platform, raised $2.4m in Series A funding.
The round, which follows a $1.2m seed funding raised in the summer of 2012, was led by Greycroft Part... |
| 09.04.2013 | Plain Vanilla raises $2.4M for social trivia platform | The company gets support from Greycroft Ventures and others
There’s no easier way to feel smarter than everyone else in the room than winning a trivia game. You know as well as everyone that your victory is literally trivial, but still. It ... |
