Vietnam’s social app Tappy has been acquired by the Silicon Valley cloud-based social games platform Weeby.co for an undisclosed seven-digit amount. Weeby.co, formerly Game Closure, raised US$12 million in series A in 2012, and has invested in multiple areas across the gaming space from messaging, gaming social networks, to game production. Its new signature product is Weeby.co Producer, which allows anyone to create a game and launch it on Weeby.co’s platform. Tappy was founded by Thuy Truong, a local startup personality and former founder and CEO of Greengar, one of Vietnam’s most successful mobile startups, producing games and utilities like Whiteboard. She stated: “I spent years creating at least 40 games and apps. The mobile gaming business is basically a hit-and-miss; it’s ridiculously hard for any small game studio to compete with big companies for top chart positions on the App Store. Weeby.co’s Producer is exactly what smaller studios need – it’s a game changer for the industry. I’m very excited to be a part of bringing this product to hands of developers and studios around Asia and globally.”
Meanwhile, two other co-founders of Tappy, Leslie Ngan Nguyen and Thuc Vu, helped build Groupon, Box and Katango – which was acquired by Google in 2011. The acquisition means that Thuy will be based out of Singapore, along with some of the Tappy team, including her technical co-founders, Leslie Ngan Nguyen and Thuc Vu.
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