Israel’s TabTale has become a global leader in kids mobile games (interview)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 14, 2015
Updated June 18, 2025
9 min

TabTale is one of Israel’s success stories in mobile gaming. Founded in 2010 to make kids games and education apps, it now publishes a game every week on iOS, Google Play, Amazon, and Windows.

The company was started by Sagi Schliesser, Oran Kushnir, and Nir Bejerano. Now it has more than 230 employees and 350 games that have been downloaded more than 600 million times. It has raised $13.5 million in venture capital and acquired two companies, developer Level Bit in Serbia and Coco Play in China.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.