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Redemption Games spins out of AppLovin and raises $7M

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Redemption Games has spun out of AppLovin and it has raised a new round of $7 million as an independent game studio.

The Carlsbad, California-based company has had a rich history in gaming, as it created the hit mobile game Sweet Escapes before it was acquired. And its founders, Michael Witz and Dan Lin, were behind the success of Cookie Jam, which has generated well over $500 million for mobile game publisher Jam City (as of a few years ago). Overall, the team’s games have done more than $1 billion in sales.

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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.