| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.05.2026 | Prelude: $20 Million Series A Raised To Build The Onboarding And Trust Layer For The AI Age | Prelude, a company building onboarding and trust infrastructure for the AI era, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by 20VC, with participation from existing investors Singular, Seedcamp, Deel, and FDJ UNITED Venture... |
| 27.02.2026 | Alpa Secures $3.5 Million to Revolutionize Hospitality Finances | Alpa, a London FinTech startup, raised $3.5 million in pre-seed funding. This capital empowers Europe's vast hospitality sector. It delivers real-time financial visibility. Restaurant operators gain instant profitability insights. The platf... |
| 26.02.2026 | Alpa lands $3.5M to build financial platform for hospitality | London-based Alpa has raised $3.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Daphni, with participation from True Capital, 2100 Ventures, Firedrop, Oprtrs Club, Kima Ventures, and Sonorcap. Angel investors include Alexandre Yazdi (Voodoo founder) a... |
| 26.02.2026 | Taster founder’s UK FinTech startup Alpa raises €2.9 million to build the financial operating system for hospitality | Alpa, a London-based hospitality-focused FinTech startup, today announced that it has raised €2.9 million ($3.5 million) in its pre-Seed funding round to strengthen its core product and engineering capabilities.
The round was led by Daphni,... |
| 06.11.2025 | Paris-based Hoora raises €1.1 million to build the “TikTok for gaming” and reshape mobile game discovery | French gaming app Hoora announced a €1.1 million ($1.3 million) fundraising round to blend social-media mechanics with instant-access gameplay – marking a key step in its ambition to become the “TikTok for gaming.”
The project has attracted... |
| 22.08.2025 | Tencent Cloud, WeTest, and Voodoo Join Forces to Elevate Mobile Gaming | COLOGNE, Germany, Aug. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- At gamescom 2025, the world's largest and leading event for computer and video games, Tencent Cloud and WeTest—Tencent's professional mobile game testing solution—have entered into a strategic... |
| 15.05.2025 | Plakar: $3 Million Raised For Open-Source Backup And Restore Platform | Plakar, an open-source backup and restore platform, announced the general availability of its first stable release, alongside a $3 million pre-seed funding round led by Seedcamp. This funding round includes participation from leading ventur... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Future of AR Glasses: Meta's Next Big Leap?**
** | ** The tech world is buzzing. Meta, the company once known as Facebook, is on the brink of a significant breakthrough. Speculation is swirling around a pair of augmented reality (AR) glasses that could redefine how we interact with the digi... |
| 23.07.2024 | Usuários do BeReal se revoltam contra mudanças no app | Novo dono do BeReal incluiu anúncios na plataforma, agora os usuários restantes estão irritados (Imagem: Josh Withers/Unsplash)
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| 05.07.2024 | Chart-Topping ‘Noplace’ Looks Back to Social Media’s Early Days | By Inno Flores
Published Jul 5, 2024 2:21AM EDT
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After nearly a year of being invite-only, the new social media app "Noplace" w... |
| 17.06.2024 | Недельный геймдев: #178 — 16 июня, 2024 | Из новостей: разработчик Wizard with a Gun закрывается, детали отменённого спин-оффа Disco Elysium, британцы обвинили Valve в завышении цен на игры в Steam, Тираж Elden Ring превысил 25 миллионов копий.
Из интересностей: руководство по аним... |
| 12.06.2024 | BeReal: The 'Anti-Instagram' App Sold to Mobile Game Publisher Voodoo for Over $500 Million | By Jace Dela Cruz
Published Jun 12, 2024 7:44AM EDT
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Mobile game publisher Voodoo has acquired the "anti-Instagram" app BeReal ... |
| 11.06.2024 | Компания Voodoo купила социальную сеть BeReal | Французская студия мобильной разработки Voodoo купила социальную сеть BeReal, которая была популярна во время пандемии. Сейчас у приложения 40 миллионов пользователей практически нулевая монетизация.
BeReal позиционируется как альтернатива ... |
| 11.06.2024 | BeReal sold to French app developer Voodoo | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
French app developer Voodoo has acquired photo sharing app BeReal for €500 million, the company announced on Tuesday.
Why it matters: The deal brings the once viral a... |
| 10.06.2024 | Недельный геймдев: #177 — 9 июня, 2024 | Из новостей: NVIDIA скоро выложит RTX Remix в опенсорс, аудитория серии Diablo превысила 100 миллионов игроков, конфликт между РВИ и АПРИОРИ вышел в паблик.
Из интересностей: секреты Lineage II и скрытые возможности клиента, как создавался ... |
| 08.04.2024 | Meet France's software giants | 1. Contentsquare
Following its $400M Series F fundraise in 2022, things never seem to go quiet for Contentsquare. Founded in Paris, the UX software and analytics vendor has raised $1.4B in investment funding and boasts an R&D team of ov... |
| 06.03.2024 | k-ID launches a solution that helps game developers comply with ever-changing child safety regulations | Making a video game successful is already hard. Doing so while complying with the growing number of child safety laws and regulations around the world is an almost insurmountable task. A new technology company called k-ID aims to make this ... |
| 28.11.2023 | YouTube launches more than 30 ‘Playables’ mini-games for Premium users | YouTube is expanding its games ambition by rolling out access to a set of online games for Premium users after first testing them with select users back in September. The Google-owned company has started notifying Premium users that they ca... |
| 01.10.2023 | Procurement is painful, so Pivot wants to simplify it | Earlier this year, a big French tech company started requiring an email to the CEO for every purchase above €1,000. That’s because they didn’t have the right tool to manage procurement.
Meet Pivot, a new French startup that wants to overhau... |
| 11.10.2022 | Homa raises another $100 million for its data-driven mobile gaming tools | French startup Homa has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Quadrille Capital and Headline are leading the round. Homa partners with indie mobile game studios so their games are perfectly optimized to become a hit game on the App ... |
| 30.07.2022 | This Week in Apps: Instagram backlash, TikTok gaming, Snapchat+ makes millions | Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly f... |
| 28.07.2022 | TikTok begins pilot testing HTML5 mini-games with a handful of partners | TikTok wants to determine its users’ appetite for mobile gaming with the launch of “mini-games” that can be played inside the social video app and discovered through creators’ videos. TechCrunch learned and has now confirmed TikTok’s new ga... |
| 18.05.2022 | [2021 key figures and trends] Paris&Co unveils its startups Barometer | Business, jobs, fundings... It's time to learn from the figures and insights of the year 2021! Our Barometer unveils key activity figures revealed by the 460 startups supported by Paris&Co last year : the recovery of business activity a... |
| 10.02.2022 | Parisian startup picks up €4.5 million to revolutionise how brands communicate with web stories | The advent of social media has transformed how audiences consume content, search for information and shop online, with content that is increasingly visual and interactive. The transition of story formats to the web was a natural one, and th... |
| 09.02.2022 | French platform Starton picks up €3.8 million to train blockchain developers | Paris-based startup simplifying access to blockchain Starton has raised €3.8 million to develop its product, strengthen its teams, and train the developers of tomorrow.
The round saw the participation of Speedinvest, Daphni, Kima Ventures, ... |
| 16.12.2021 | Voodoo bets on play-to-earn crypto mobile games | French startup Voodoo has announced that it plans to make a significant investment in blockchain-powered mobile games. The company estimates that it represents a $200 million investment over the coming years.
2021 has been an important year... |
| 08.11.2021 | Voodoo Makes a Significant Investment in Israel Based Games Developer, Teskin, to Support the Casual Studio’s Growth and Team Expansion | Voodoo, one of the world’s leading mobile games publishers, announced that it is making a significant investment in Teskin, a casual games developer headquartered in Israel.
Founded in 2018 by Iliya Tesler and Lior Gluskin, Teskin specializ... |
| 30.09.2021 | Mobile gaming company Voodoo acquires Beach Bum | French startup Voodoo has made a significant acquisition in the casual mobile gaming market. The company is acquiring Beach Bum, a game studio based in Israel and specialized in tabletop and card games.
It’s hard to get a clear number for t... |
| 02.08.2021 | GBL acquires minority stake in mobile games unicorn Voodoo at €266 million | Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) has acquired a minority stake in Parisian hypercasual mobile games developer Voodoo. Valued at €1.7 billion, GBL’s €266 million investment will represent a 16% stake in the company.
GBL now joins existing shar... |
| 31.03.2021 | Paris-based contract management software provider Leeway raises $4.2 million in seed round | Seeking to simplify contract management for in-house legal teams, Paris-based Leeway has raised $4.2 million in a seed round.
The funding arrives via HenQ and Xavier Niel’s Kima Ventures as well as a number of angel investors including the ... |
| 26.02.2021 | Игра минской студии FreePlay стала самой популярной в 44 странах, включая США и Великобританию | Андрей Кожемякин 26 февраля 2021, 18:29 Игра минской студии FreePlay стала самой популярной в 44 странах, включая США и Великобританию
Неделю назад в Global Launch вышла игра Happy Printer, разработанная минской студией FreePlay, и сразу п... |
| 04.12.2020 | Эксперты из Voodoo и Gismart разобрали, как сделать успешную игру | Владимир Галак Паблишеры 4 декабря 2020, 14:26 Эксперты из Voodoo и Gismart разобрали, как сделать успешную игру
За 2020 год игры Voodoo скачали более 1 млрд раз. Ежемесячно компания входит в топ-5 самых популярных паблишеров мира. В её пор... |
| 18.08.2020 | The video game startups on Tencent’s Europe list | Tencent has bought a minority stake in France’s video game maker Voodoo, showing a steady appetite by the Chinese conglomerate for European gaming companies big and small.
Voodoo, a French developer of casual mobile games founded in 2013 an... |
| 17.02.2020 | Voodoo Games thrives by upending conventional product design | Will Robbins Contributor
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| 11.12.2019 | Voodoo acquires mobile game studio Gumbug in London as it exploits hypercasual growth | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Voodoo pioneered “hypercasual mobile games,” or those that folks can play in a matter of minutes or seconds. And now it’s using the mon... |
| 11.12.2019 | Voodoo acquires mobile game studio Gumbug in London as it exploits hypercasual growth | Voodoo pioneered “hypercasual mobile games,” or those that folks can play in a matter of minutes or seconds. And now it’s using the money from being a pioneer in this market to acquire Gumbug, a London-based mobile game studio.
Voodoo said ... |
| 30.05.2018 | Voodoo Receives Approx. $200M Investment from Goldman Sachs | Voodoo, a Paris, France-based mobile video game developer, received an approx. $200m investment from Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs made the investment through its West Street Capital Partners VII fund.
The company intends to use the funds to... |
| 30.05.2018 | Goldman Sachs Invests $200M in France’s Voodoo | Goldman Sachs’ private equity fund has invested about $200 million in French mobile video game maker Voodoo to speed-up its global growth, a source close to the matter said.
The Paris-based company, founded in 2013, aims to more than double... |
| 29.05.2018 | Voodoo raises estimated $200 million from Goldman Sachs for mobile games | Mobile games publisher Voodoo has raised an estimated $200 million from Goldman Sachs. The company has plans to use it to develop a publishing hub to help mobile game developers.
In a talk at Casual Connect Europe in London, CEO Alexandre Y... |
| 17.10.2015 | Voodoo Raises $1M in Seed Funding | Voodoo, an Indian provider of a deal and price comparison app, raised $1m in seed funding.
Venture capital firm Saif Partners made the investment.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to improve the mobile platform and add more ... |
| 14.10.2015 | Voodoo raises $1 million from SAIF Partners | The app was launched last week and the company claims to have over 1,200 downloads so far.
Voodoo raises $1 million from SAIF Partners 1 min read . Updated: 14 Oct 2015, 01:26 AM IST Priyanka Sahay
The deals and price comparison app will us... |
| 12.10.2015 | Voodoo, A Digital Assistant For India’s Smartphone Users, Launches With $1M In Seed Funding | With so many price-comparison sites, finding deals is relatively easy as long as you are on a desktop. Things get a lot more complicated on mobile apps, however, especially if your smartphone is the main way you get online, as it is for man... |
| - | 7 coisas que você precisa saber sobre Helix Jump | O Helix Jump é um puzzle para celular — ou seja, um jogo de quebra-cabeças — que virou febre no Android e no iOS (iPhone). O game criado pela VOODOO (que tem no seu portfólio dezenas de joguinhos similares) está entre os mais baixados das l... |
| - | GBL acquires minority stake in mobile games unicorn Voodoo at €266 million | Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL) has acquired a minority stake in Parisian hypercasual mobile games developer Voodoo. Valued at €1.7 billion, GBL’s €266 million investment will represent a 16% stake in the company.
GBL now joins existing shar... |
| - | Paris-based mobile games publisher Voodoo pwns Tel Aviv’s Bidshake | Parisian mobile games published Voodoo has acquired Tel Aviv-based cross-channel marketing automation platform Bidshake. Bidshake will remain an independent entity and operate independently, while the financials of the deal were not disclos... |
| - | Platforma BeReal a fost cumpărată pentru 500 milioane EUR | Aplicația de poze efemere BeReal a fost cumpărată de dezvoltatorul francez de aplicații Voodoo pentru suma de 500 milioane EUR, potrivit The Verge. |
| - | French platform Starton picks up €3.8 million to train blockchain developers | Paris-based startup simplifying access to blockchain Starton has raised €3.8 million to develop its product, strengthen its teams, and train the developers of tomorrow.
The round saw the participation of Speedinvest, Daphni, Kima Ventures, ... |
| - | Parisian startup picks up €4.5 million to revolutionise how brands communicate with web stories | The advent of social media has transformed how audiences consume content, search for information and shop online, with content that is increasingly visual and interactive. The transition of story formats to the web was a natural one, and th... |
| - | Voodoo придбала застосунок для обміну фото BeReal за €500 млн | Voodoo придбала застосунок для обміну фото BeReal за €500 млн
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Французька компанія-видавець застосунків Voodoo придбала застосунок для обміну фото BeReal за €500 млн. Його засновник і СЕО Алексіс Ба... |
