megazebra

MegaZebra GmbH

Type	Private
Industry	video games, social network service
Founded	2009
Headquarters	Munich, Germany
Key people	Henning Kosmack, CEO Christian Meister, CPO Steffen Rusitschka, CTO Mark Gazecki, Chairman
Website	http://www.megazebra.com/

MegaZebra is a European social network game developer and distributor located in Munich, Germany.^[1] The company develops browser-based free-to-play games for social networks like Facebook and is now publishing^[2] games from other developers, i.e. from the Germany-based skill-gaming firm Tipp24games.^[3]

History

MegaZebra pioneered the social gaming space in Europe in late 2008.^[4] Behind MegaZebra is the team around Henning Kosmack (CEO), Christian Meister (CPO), Steffen Rusitschka (CTO), and Mark Gazecki (Chairman).^[5] Since then, MegaZebra developed several games and at the moment 19 MegaZebra games are available on Facebook.^[6]

In September 2009 the company got backed by the founders of Web.de through Kizoo Technology Ventures.^[7]

With Mahjong Trails ^[8] they launched their first game, reaching more than two million monthly players in January 2011.^[9] Today the game has more than 3 million monthly active players.^[9]

In March 2011 MegaZebra raised ‘multiple millions Euros’ ^[10] in a second round of funding, led by Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. Furthermore, Kizoo Technology Ventures participated again, alongside with private investor Markus Stolz.^[11]

Figures

According to AppData, in Januar 2011 MegaZebra is one of the top 25 fastest growing developers on Facebook,^[12] reaching almost 5 million monthly users and is with more than half a million daily active users,^[6] among the Top 3 European developers in terms of daily active users.

Games

The Top 5 games of MegaZebra are: Mahjong Trails (3.3 million monthly active users)[6] Mahjong (0.6 million monthly active users)[6] Jewels Rock (0.16 million monthly active users)[6] JellyBombs (0.15 million monthly active users)[6] Sudoku (0.11 million monthly active users)[6] Nuzzle Puzzle (0.11 million monthly active users)[6] CrazyBunnies (0.10 million monthly active users)[6]

Other MegaZebra games are: Taxi[6] Dragon Mahjong[6] Zebra ActionBlox[6] Zebra Surprise[6] Zebra Blox[6] Tooniez[6] Blackjack[6] Revello[6] Zazzy[6] Zebra AquaTwist[6] Magic Islands[6] KickerBuddies[6]

References

1. ^ "Company Profile MegaZebra." Retrieved from Crunchbase, on Januar 22, 2011.
2. ^ "MegaZebra goes into publishing." Retrieved from Social Games Observer, on Januar 26, 2011.
3. ^ "European Developer MegaZebra launches Jewels Rock on facebook." Retrieved from InsideSocialGames, on Januar 13, 2011.
4. ^ "MegaZebra Profile." Retrieved from Venturebeat, on February 3, 2011.
5. ^ "About MegaZebra." Retrieved from MegaZebra, on Januar 27, 2011.
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u} "Developer Profile: MegaZebra." Retrieved from AppData, on May 25, 2011.
7. ^ "Social Gaming Roundup from September 18, 2009." Retrieved from InsideSocialGames, on Januar 11, 2011.
8. ^ "MegaZebra`s Mahjong Trails brings Tile-based action to Facebook." Retrieved from InsideSocialGames, on Januar 20, 2011.
9. ^ ^{a b} "MahjongTrails." Retrieved from All Facebook Statistics, on Januar 17, 2011.
10. ^ "MegaZebra On Ad Spend, Localization and Facebook-Only Development." Retrieved from InsideSocialGames, on May 25, 2011.
11. ^ "Facebook games developer MegaZebra closes ‘multi-million’ euro funding round." Retrieved from TechCrunch, on May 24, 2011.
12. ^ "Top Gainer of the week." Retrieved from AppData, on Januar 26, 2011.

External links

• Official MegaZebra website