an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . july 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message gameduell gameduell logo . type limited liability company industry interactive entertainment casual games founded december 2003 ; 12 years ago 2003 12 founder boris wasmuth kai bolik michael kalkowski headquarters berlin germany san francisco california u.s. number of employees 150 website http inside.gameduell.com gameduell is a major cross platform games community headquartered in berlin germany . with more than 130 million registered players across all platforms 1 the company counts among the leading casual and social games providers in the western world . founded in 2003 by kai bolik michael kalkowski and boris wasmuth gameduell offers over 70 casual online games mostly developed in house such as fluffy maya pyramid bubble speed jungle jewels and game classics like hearts solitaire and pool . over 60 web games are directly playable on the company s game website . besides that the company offers games for facebook for tablets and smartphones . 2 gameduell employs 150 team members most of them in their berlin headquarters . contents 1 history 2 management 3 figures 4 funding 5 gameduell game website and community platform 6 gameduell events 7 references 8 external links history edit the gameduell gmbh was founded in december 2003 by boris wasmuth kai bolik and michael kalkowski 3 and published its first german web games in 2004 . in 2007 gameduell entered the french market with the first translated games . following the launch of localized game versions in several other european countries such as united kingdom spain netherlands and sweden the company entered the north american market in 2008 and opened an office in san francisco . gameduell meanwhile offers its games in seven languages german french english dutch swedish danish and spanish . in 2009 the company published its first facebook game bubble popp . with jungle jewels the company released a first ios mobile game for ipads and iphones in 2010 which was followed by an android version in 2011 . in january 2012 gameduell moved to its current headquarter office in taubenstra e 24 25 in berlin mitte germany . in 2014 gameduell published the mobile and facebook app belote.com which allows french card game fans to play belote on android ios and facebook . the game was extended with regular international tournaments called coupe du monde in 2016 . 4 in february 2016 gameduell launched the gin rummy mobile game grand gin rummy . 5 management edit kai bolik co founder and ceo earlier in his career he worked in various management positions at bertelsmann and as a strategic consultant at the boston consulting group . citation needed boris wasmuth co founder and marketing director boris wasmuth is a serial entrepreneur who founded dooyoo.de in 1999 one of europe s leading consumer sites . prior to working with gameduell he worked for bmw henkel and bertelsmann . boris wasmuth is also member of the supervisory board at media.net berlin brandenburg . 6 michael kalkowski co founder and creative director michael kalkowski started his ventures as one of the founders of dooyoo.com . 7 before he worked as an international product and marketing consultant . he holds several business degrees from germany and an mba from eastern illinois university usa . figures edit according to appdata as of february 2012 gameduell games on facebook had almost 4 million monthly active users . 8 gameduell has over 130 million users including app installs and currently offers 10 mobile games on the ios and 5 on the android platforms 10 on the social network site facebook and over 60 on its own website . games are currently available in 7 different languages on its website . 9 funding edit the company received over 17 million 11 million in funding from wellington partners in an effort to accelerate its expansion into other european countries and the united states . this was in addition to the earlier funding from holtzbrinck ventures and burda digital ventures in 2004 . 10 gameduell game website and community platform edit the gameduell web platform is the central hub for a community of over 130 million players worldwide . players find over 60 games on gameduell.com directly playable in the web browser . instead of playing alone at their computer players meet in the central game lobby of each game and start multiplayer matches against human opponents . the gameduell matchmaking system always suggests players of the same experience and skill level to guarantee a fun experience and fair play . after their initial registration players can create avatars for their account make friends through a buddy system challenge other players or start closed game rounds and compete for awards and rankings . a chat function allows for direct communication in most gameduell games . gameduell events edit gameduell techtalk since 2010 gameduell has established the techtalk event series 11 where renowned technology pioneers share their know how with the berlin tech community . senior technology experts like ed burns jsf specification lead at oracle werner vogels cto of amazon emil eifrem founder of neo technology dr. torsten lodderstedt member of the oauth working group of ietf and tech manager at deutsche telekom matthias we endorf member of the apache software foundation working for jboss red hat jeanfrancois arcand developer of the atmosphere framework introduce the audience to their working fields and inspire the discussion with their perspective on trend setting technology sectors . berlin 2.0 every six months gameduell invites the one hundred most influential and successful founders of the berlin startup community to an exclusive networking dinner . at berlin 2.0 the founders of the most promising tech and internet companies meet for a casual exchange . 12 skat & romm masters since 2006 gameduell hosts the largest skat tournament of the world every year . 13 the event series is organized in exclusive partnership with the german skat association . throughout the year players of the popular german card game compete in qualification rounds on the gameduell web platform . additionally to the skat masters gameduell launched the romm masters tournament series in 2009 . only the best players of both games qualify for the live finals in berlin where they compete face to face for valuable trophies . the final round is recorded and televised on german tv . for the french card game belote and german doppelkopf gameduell is offering similar large scale tournament series online . references edit http inside.gameduell.com about facts figures http www.gameduell.com mobile games.html gameduell founders . gameduell . retrieved 9 august 2011 . http www.belote.com articles belote coupe du monde de belote http inside.gameduell.com news grand gin rummy opens its doors to a 5 star experience http www.medianet bb.de en vorstand . retrieved 24 july 2014 . missing or empty title help http www.gruenderszene.de datenbank koepfe michael kalkowski monthly active users . retrieved 17 february 2012 . gameduell products . retrieved 27 july 2011 . gameduell funding . reuters . 3 july 2008 . retrieved 27 july 2011 . http www.techtalk berlin.de about . retrieved 24 july 2014 . missing or empty title help http www.berlinzweinull.de http www.skat masters.de external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gameduell & oldid 744370469 categories video game companies of germanycompanies based in berlinhidden categories pages with citations lacking titlespages with citations having bare urlsarticles with a promotional tone from july 2015all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2015articles created via the article 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