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Ludei has received $1.5 million in financing from Kibo Ventures, Vitamina K and a number of angel investors to expand its JavaScript/HTML5 engineering team and bring its development platform to app property developers beyond the gaming industry.
Back in February, we covered Ludei’s mission to verify that HTML5 requirements are feasible for video game property developers even after Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook’s mobile strategy relied too much on HTML5 instead of native applications. Now Ludei states that it’s growing its group in order to respond to enhancing need from innovation and entertainment companies for its HTML5 multi-platform development products.
‘This funding further verifies our strategy to HTML5 development. HTML5 has taken a lot of criticism recently and it holds true that on its own, it carries out poorly on mobile,’ Ludei CEO Eneko Knorr said in a statement. ‘But our team and the world-class developers utilizing our platform are proving every day that with the best support, HTML5 is all set for primetime, and we are positioned to handle the biggest players in the app market.’
Ludei deals with competitors from Video game Closure for gaming clients, however Ludei states that it’s the only HTML5 platform that brings native performance and functions to mobile app property developers.
More than 6,000 property developers, including three of the leading 20 game publishers in the world, currently utilize the Ludei platform to power HTML5 applications, which enables them to code when, then monetize and market applications throughout numerous platforms with native-like features. Even more than 500 iOS and Android games have actually been established using the platform, especiallying ScribbleMix, Lunch ZBug, Bubble Soccer and Rhino Hero. Ludei is the only platform that supports WebGL on iOS and Android devices. It likewise supports new platforms like Ouya and Tizen.
Ludei investors Kibo Ventures and Vitamina K are both based in Spain. Kibo Ventures supports Spanish start-ups in the Net and mobile area and is presently investing in Amerigo Innvierte Spain Technologies FCR Fund, part of the Amerigo network sponsored by Telefonica and CDTI. Its other profile companies consist of international education payment platform peerTransfer and movie and manufacturing directory Visualnet. Vitamina K buys Internet-based business worldwide, including video monetization platform The Mad Video.
Ludei’s initial financing originated from Knorr, a serial entrepreneur who offered his previous company Hostalia, to Telefonica in 2007. This round brings Ludei’s overall funding to $4.5 million.