By Brian Kovalesky, StartUp Beat Editor
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news:
AppLift, a Berlin–based mobile games marketing startup, has raised $13 million in Series A funding from Prime Ventures. The company’s platform is a mobile ad network geared toward monetizing traffic. The company was launched and backed by mobile games incubator HitFox in 2012 and has locations in San Francisco, Seoul and Paris in addition to its Berlin headquarters. Within HitFox, the co-founders of AppLift are co-CEOs Kaya Taner, previously HitFox’s head of publisher relations, and Tim Koschella, HitFox co-founder.
(Sources: Prime Ventures, AppLift, TechCrunch)
Vital Stats:
Website: www.applift.com
HQ: Berlin
Founders: Kaya Taner and Tim Koschella
Founded: 2012
Investors: HitFox Group, Prime Ventures
Total Funding: $13 million
More funding news…
Akamon Entertainment raises $3.65M for “internationalizing” social games (via VentureBeat)
Bill Gates invests in academic social network ResearchGate, report claims (via GigaOm)
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