Alex Yadzi (right) and of Vooddo
Alex Yadzi (right) and Gabriel Rivaud of Voodoo.
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Voodoo raises estimated $200 million from Goldman Sachs for mobile games

Mobile games publisher Voodoo has raised an estimated $200 million from Goldman Sachs. The company has plans to use it to develop a publishing hub to help mobile game developers.

In a talk at Casual Connect Europe in London, CEO Alexandre Yazdi said that Paris-based Voodoo is on track to reach a billion downloads for its games such as Baseball Boy in 2018. Yazdi declined to say exactly how much the company has raised, but Reuters and other sources put the number at $200 million.

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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.