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Scopely is a touchscreen entertainment network founded in 2011 based in Los Angeles. Through its developer program, Scopely partners and collaborates with elite game developers and global entertainment companies to bring industry-leading distribution and monetization technology to free to play games. ==History == Scopely was founded in 2011 by social gaming entrepreneur, Walter Driver, former Applied Semantics co-founder, Eytan Elbaz; former lead software developer on MySpace's Developer Platform, Ankur Bulsara, and startup veteran, Eric Futoran. In February 2013, Scopely announced the first five partner studios in its developer network. While working with one of Scopely's first partners, Scopely boosted New Zealand Studio Rocket Jump’s Mini Golf MatchUp game to over 10M downloads one month. In 2013, the Scopely grew from 30 employees to 80 and was named by Entrepreneur as one of 30 startups to watch In 2014, Scopely brought in former Disney Executives Javier Ferreira as Chief Operating Officer and Tim O'Brien as Chief Revenue Officer. To date, Scopely has released nine games, with Dice with Buddies and Mini Golf MatchUp being early successes. Scopely has had four consecutive #1 iPhone games on the US download chart. In 2014, Scopely announced a long-term strategic publishing partnership with Space Inch, the indie mobile developer behind Disco Bees, Make it Rain and Say the Same Thing. In March 2015, Scopely signed a multi-year partnership with Kung Fu Factory to create mobile games. In May 2015, Scopely signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Digit Games, Ireland's largest games developer. In July 2015, Scopely brought in former General Manager at Kixeye Bernard Chen as GM & VP of Product. In September 2015, Scopely also hired esteemed analytics executive Steve Seoane as SVP, Publishing Platform. In October 2015, Scopely hired previous vice president of talent at educational technology company Coursera and former vice president of talent and talent acquisition role at Netflix, Jessical Neal as Chief People Officer. In August 2015, Scopely ranked #9 on Inc.'s List of the 5000 Fastest-Growing Companies in America. In November 2015, Scopely reported a revenue run rate of $150 million and announced a strategic partnership and investment in Redemption Games. Redemption was founded by former SGN developers Michael Witz and Dan Lin, the team behind the hugely successful game Cookie Jam, which has seen more than 60M downloads and has consistently been a top-grossing game in the App Store. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scopely」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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