GameAnalytics scores $5.5 mln Series A

Danish analytics platform GameAnalytics has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding. The investors in this round included Sunstone Capital, Crunchfund and Beta Angels. In addition to the financing, the firm has named Luke Aviet as CEO, Nick Roveta as vice president of strategic partnerships and Claus Moseholm as chief commercial officer.

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GameAnalytics, one of the fastest-growing analytics platforms for game developers, has announced it has closed its Series A funding round worth $5.5m. The free platform provides developers with tools and insight to improve their games. It has close to 14,000 registered game developers with their games reaching over 500 million unique players.

The latest funding takes GameAnalytics’ total to $8m, having previously raised $2.5m from Sunstone Capital, CrunchFund, Jimmy Maymann (CEO, Huffington Post) and René Rechmann (President, Maker Studio), who are all participating in the current round together with new investor Beta Angels and the new management team.

As part of the funding round, GameAnalytics welcomes Luke Aviet (former Managing Director, AOL) as new CEO, Nick Roveta (former Head of Product and Partnerships, AOL) as VP of Strategic Partnerships and Claus Moseholm (founder, GoViral) as Chief Commercial Officer. Aviet, Roveta and Moseholm previously worked together very successfully at the video platform GoViral, which was sold to AOL in January 2011 for $96.7m.

GameAnalytics offers predefined metrics, data exploration and valuable user insights via a customisable dashboard, allowing developers a detailed insight into their user base. They can then use this feedback and data to improve their games.

“GameAnalytics’s growth has been incredible so far and we are well positioned to make an even greater contribution to the games industry,” explains CEO Luke Aviet. “the company is in a unique position to help with some of the games industry’s biggest challenges. Ultimately we are focused on providing game developers with clear insight and effective tools that maximise their games life cycle, enabling games developers to do what they do best – create great games. I’m really excited to join the GameAnalytics team at such an important stage in the company’s growth.”

“Since I founded GameAnalytics It’s been incredible to see the size, scale and increasing sophistication of the industry and with this new investment our focus will be on solving some of the biggest challenges facing the indie gaming community. We want to help indie developers compete with the big guys and allow them to focus on creativity” states Morten Wulff, founder of GameAnalytics.

GameAnalytics has offices in London, Copenhagen and Berlin.

GameAnalytics is available now – sign up for a free account at www.gameanalytics.com.

About GameAnalytics
GameAnalytics provides one of the most successful free analytics services available for game developers. Founded in 2012 by Danish serial entrepreneur Morten E. Wulff, it employs 27 people, and is headquartered in Copenhagen with a data engineering team in Berlin and a commercial team in London. The company now has close to 14,000 registered game developers on its platform and has tracked more than 500 million players since its launch. For more information, visit http://gameanalytics.com