Maple Media's Clark Landry, COO, (left) and Michael Ritter, CEO.
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Maple Media raises $30 million to found a new mobile gaming empire

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Maple Media has raised $30 million in private equity to acquire and operate mobile apps and games. The Los Angeles company hopes to make each acquired property more profitable and gain advantages of scale in marketing to mobile audiences.

Shamrock Capital invested the money in Maple Media, which is led by game and tech veterans Michael Ritter and Clark Landry. Maple Media has been operating for a while and it has already amassed an impressive collection of apps and games. Maple Media currently manages over 150 apps with several billion monthly mobile ad impressions. It is focused on mobile apps in the utility, productivity, games and entertainment verticals.

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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.