akhund ceo and co founder jude gomila president and co founder employees 20 website heyzap.com type of site social discovery platform for games available in english launched january 2009 heyzap is a social discovery and monetization platform for mobile games and apps . heyzap is based in san francisco and was founded in 2009 by jude gomila and immad akhund . 1 2 3 since then heyzap has raised funding from a number of investors including y combinator angel investors naval ravikant and chris dixon the founder of del.icio.us joshua schachter 4 and union square ventures . 5 6 7 heyzap s platform recommends mobile ads based on heyzap s social platform data 8 using machine learning algorithms . 9 heyzap was sold in 2015 to rtns media for 45m . 10 history edit in january 2009 heyzap launched a widget service for embedding flash games on the web . 11 heyzap later launched a virtual goods platform for flash games allowing developers to insert micro transaction systems into their games and enables the games to be monetized . 12 13 in march and april 2010 heyzap added social games 14 and released its arcade bar . 15 shortly after raising 3 million in funding 16 heyzap announced its new heyzap arcade 17 service for powering website games sections and updated api support for html5 games . in march 2011 heyzap launched a social discovery app for mobile gamers . 18 the heyzap app provided users with a way to check into their favorite games discover games and join a massive community of mobile gamers . heyzap allowed users to compete on leaderboards 19 challenge friends 20 21 and earn achievements and badges . 22 in march 2013 heyzap announced the launch of its mobile game focused advertising network 23 24 25 quickly growing to a majority of heyzap s revenue and the primary business focus of the company . 26 heyzap offers multiple ad formats including interstitial video and cross promotion . 27 additionally heyzap became the first mobile ad network to offer payments via the digital currency bitcoin . 28 as of april 2014 heyzap claims to have been integrated into 5 000 mobile games and apps and to have a profitable business with a revenue run rate of more than 13 million . 29 in december 2015 heyzap was sold to rnts media for 45m . 30 references edit crunchbase profile for heyzap . crunchbase . takahasi dean . heyzap scores 4.6 m users in two months for mobile game check ins . venturebeat . retrieved 2011 04 28 . empson rip . heyzap goes after social discovery launches check in for mobile games . techcrunch . retrieved 2011 03 16 . kincaid jason . heyzap closes seed funding round for its flash gaming widget . techcrunch . retrieved 2009 05 27 . union square ventures portfolio . angel investors uk v silicon valley . london telegraph.co.uk . 2009 05 28 . retrieved 2009 05 28 . heyzap at union square ventures . ha anthony . heyzap says its mobile ad network has grown to 800 games and makes up the majority of its revenue . retrieved 14 jun 2013 . love dylan . what the heck is machine learning . retrieved 3 may 2014 . yeung ken . rnts media buys mobile ad network heyzap for 45m . venturebeat . retrieved 23 december 2015 . kincaid jason . heyzap vies to become a youtube for flash games . techcrunch . retrieved 15 jan 2009 . takashi dean . heyzap introduces virtual goods system for flash web games . venturebeat . retrieved 2009 06 25 . kincaid jason . flash gaming payments heat up heyzap launches microtransaction platform . techcrunch . retrieved 2009 06 25 . heyzap now lets social games expand beyond facebook . heyzap launches a meebo bar for social games . heyzap lands another 3 million in funding . heyzap arcade allows publishers to easily add an interactive gaming portal . parr ben . heyzap launches android app for discovering & checking in to games . retrieved 26 mar 2011 . ha anthony . heyzap expands its mobile gaming platform with leaderboards where you can challenge other players . retrieved 28 nov 2012 . dean takahasi . heyzap launches a play with friends feature for multiplayer mobile games . retrieved 11 oct 2012 . ha anthony . heyzap s play with friends feature connects you with other players in any mobile multiplayer game . retrieved 11 oct 2012 . takahashi dean . time to brag heyzap adds achievements to its mobile gaming platform . retrieved 13 dec 2013 . yeung ken . mobile game network heyzap releases its ads sdk allowing its 4 200 developers to monetize their apps . the next web . retrieved 22 mar 2013 . ha anthony . heyzap introduces ads to its mobile gaming network . techcrunch . retrieved 22 mar 2013 . grubb jeffrey . heyzap hopes its new in game ad tool makes gamers happy and developers money . venturebeat . retrieved 22 mar 2013 . ha anthony . heyzap says its mobile ad network has grown to 800 games and makes up the majority of its revenue . retrieved 14 jun 2013 . grub jeffrey . heyzap is bringing hd video ads to mobile games . retrieved 31 jan 2014 . tweney dylan . heyzap adds option to pay game developers with bitcoin . retrieved 7 april 2013 . dean takahashi . heyzap finds a profitable business in showing targeted advertising to mobile social gamers . venturebeat . retrieved 30 april 2014 . yeung ken . rnts media buys mobile ad network heyzap for 45m . venturebeat . retrieved 23 december 2015 . external links edit wikiquote has quotations related to heyzap heyzap company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title heyzap & oldid 743698797 categories companies based in san franciscoonline companiescasual gamesbrowser based game websitesinternet properties established in 2009 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload 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