Koalah lets you wager on skill-based games.
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Koalah launches web platform for games with real-money stakes

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

The founders of Koalah believe that the app stores have become too powerful, so they’re creating a web-based platform for skill-based games, where players can win real money based on wagers they make on online and mobile games.

It’s a crazy dream, but Koalah is a small company that needs just a little foothold. Game developers can adopt its HTML5-based platform easily, particularly if they’ve already created games in that format, which is the lingua franca for the web. Koalah has created its platform to work well with both mobile and desktop games, allowing developers to deploy once to all relevant platforms.

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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.