Friday, September 16, 2011

100 jobs Gamerizon

The Montreal studio of video games for mobile platforms Gamerizon create hundreds of new jobs within two years thanks to a financing round of $ 5 million announced today.

Gamerizon is known for its series of games " Chop Chop ", which has nine titles on the platform iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad). They were downloaded a total of about 15 million times.

The investment from two firms specializing in venture capital: Capital Vanedge of Vancouver and iNovia Capital, based in Montreal. This is a second investment in a short time in the same area and same city for Vanddge Capital, which is also one of the investors from SAVA Transmedia .

Gamerizon intends to use this funding to add one hundred employees in its workforce currently consists ... a dozen people.

The president of Gamerizon, Alex Sakiz, said the company will work with two types of projects. First increase its current range of games on other mobile platforms, including Android. "It would be silly to not be on Android," he summarized.

And produce new games, more ambitious in some cases, but always based on the franchise Chop Chop . "Right now, it is believed that much of" mileage "from Chop Chop . It's hard enough to create a good brand, when it has we will maximize it. "

Of the 15 million copies of Chop Chop downloaded, the majority were free. Games Chop Chopcurrently cost $ 0.99 on the iTunes Store. All the company's revenues come from such sales for now, but other models are under consideration.


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