GameCake
A Connected TV gaming company, bringing families together in their living rooms through world-class, cross-platform games that you play together, in-person.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Gaming
- Location Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded December 2015
- Employees 9
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website gamecakestudios.com
Company Summary
• Address a serious market need to bring families together with a content "engine" for quality in-person multiplayer games.
• Eventual path towards publishing platform, like EA/Nintendo.
• Pre-seed led by Comcast Ventures, game industry magnates as angels.
• 1 game (an engine test) launched on iOS & Apple TV, Comcast X1 & Android this holiday season.
• 220k organic installs, 36.4 min average play time
• Seed round & addl. games in 2019.
Team
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CEO (Cofounder)
• Former Product Lead & Programmer at The Walt Disney Company.
• #1 App, Apple App Store - Where's My Mickey?
• #40 Top Grossing, Apple App Store - Disney Emoji Blitz
• Product lead on unannounced Nemo game
• Original concept for new Disney character and casual game, Dodo Pop -
President & Head of Product (Cofounder)
• Former Industrial Toys Game Design Lead
• Apprenticed under Halo creator Alex Seropian
• Product Lead on Renegade
• Level Designer on Midnight Star -
Head of Operations & Production
• Formerly Senior Publishing Strategist at BuzzFeed
• Lead the strategy for all original videos being published across YouTube & Facebook.
• Worked with 30+ in house producers making sure they were on track to hit weekly deadlines and output goals.
• Co-designed tools to help make the production and publishing process across the company as quick and efficient as possible. -
UI Artist & Illustrator
• Formerly Art Director & Design Manager, The Walt Disney Company.
• #1 Kids App, Apple App Store – Disney Junior Appisodes
• #1 Kids App, Apple App Store – Mickey’s Magical Math World
• #1 Book App, Apple App Store – Cloudy with Meatballs 2 Storybook
• Featured 6 times in the Apple App Store, 3 FWA awards
• HOW Interactive Design – Winner
• SXSW Interactive – 1st Place Award -
Senior Data Analyst
• Focus on understanding user behavior and gameplay to provide deep insight on improving game performance.
• Product Manager at TSIA, a B2B Technology Industry Research Analytics and Advisory Firm.
• Formerly Business Intelligence Analyst at Victorious, a mobile based social media startup
• Previously at Avery Dennison, Business Intelligence Analyst working with Americas Commercial Region to understand and leverage data on market trends. -
Sean WejebeAssociate Designer-Programmer
• Game Design & Feature Programming
• Designer-Programmer on D-Bug, selected for the 2014 Dare To Be Digital competition in Scotland
• Developed Interspeller, 2015 UCLA Game Art Festival
• Contributed 3D art to Infinit-O, winner of the Visual Design Award at Indiecade 2016
• Developed Welcome To The Underwhere, selected for PlayDate at 2017 L.A. Zine Fest
• Developed The Longest Couch 2, shown at QGCon 2017 and Queerly Represent Me’s in Australia -
Sean TillmanContent Designer & Marketing Associate
• Creation and Curation of All Game Content
• Data-Driven Content Development
• Playtesting & User Testing
• Assets for In-Game and App Store Promotions
• Targeted Marketing Plans Across All Engagement Channels
• Honors UCSB Psychology Graduate. -
QA Tester
• Performs Quality Assurance for releases of Emoji Charades
• Formerly at Idea Factory International (IFI)
• QA testing for 8 titles for Playstation 4, PS Vita, and Steam
• Event Marketing Exhibitor at the EVO Championship Series Tournament
• Product Demonstrator Exhibitor at Anime Expo for IFI video games
• Event Marketing Volunteer at Hakuoki Cafe for IFI title Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms
• Creator of Video Game Music EP Erasodes
Advisors
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Dan SilberbergerUnconfirmed
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Tim HarrisUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Christopher ShinUnconfirmedShan SwamiUnconfirmed
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Sam SwamiUnconfirmedKlaas KerstingUnconfirmed
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Matthew PierceUnconfirmedComcast VenturesUnconfirmedThe Joseph Family TrustUnconfirmed
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S. ParthasarthyUnconfirmedPaul BettnerUnconfirmed
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