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Maple Media has done 8 deals in 8 months to make mobile games more money

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Maple Media raised $30 million to acquire a bunch of mobile apps and games in order to optimize them to make more money. And in the past eight months, the company has acquired eight major properties, some of which include multiple apps.

Los Angeles-based Maple Media raised funding from private equity firm Shamrock Capital. It has begun to use that money to acquire apps and games that haven’t met their full potential, and then it applies its own knowledge in optimizing the properties to maximize revenue growth.

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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.