Yahoo NYC Mobile & Emerging Products

Bringing together the best mobile talent in the world
We're building innovative new mobile products from the ground up, including Screen, Finance, and a couple we can't talk about quite yet ;) Past products we've created include Yahoo! Weather, Stamped, Days, Qwiki, and MileWise.

Seeds

Payer conversion through social good
Seeds converts freemium gamers into paying customers using social good. Freemium games struggle to convert the 94% of players who never spend money. Seeds builds microlending into games to convert up to 33% more free users into paying customers - generating $25+ ...

TreSensa

Empowering Game Developers; Changing the Economics of Gaming
TreSensa is building a cloud-based HTML5 game development platform for mobile and social games.

FTW

Your universal gaming identity.
FTW: • is a gamer's universal ID. • syncs your game saves, scores, & achievements through the cloud across every device you play on. • supports Mac, PC, iOS, and Android. • enables developers to support all these features & more in a crazy simple & powerful ...

Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) Accelerator

MyBeanJar

Targeted mobile coupons as game rewards.
MyBeanJar (MBJ) is a marketing platform that enhances the game experience by delivering targeted real-world coupons as rewards for game achievements. These coupons (“Beans”) correspond to a player’s chosen interests and location, and are automatically stored in ...

Shadow Government

Social mobile gaming based on gamifying real countries, systems, and events.
In partnership with The Millennium Institute, the creators of the most broadly used real-world government modeling software, Shadow Government will enable an entirely new form of social gaming based on the gamification of real countries, systems, and worldwide ...

Insticator

Social competition platform
Insticator is an addictive and innovative social competition platform that lets friends compete through trivia.

Knozen

We're bringing personality to the internet
Wouldn’t it be great if we knew what people liked about us? Knozen is a mobile app to discover and share personalities with your friends. We use fun, free, social games, in a unique new way, to show people’s personalities, so that you can let people know ...

Guesswher

A mobile location-based photo guessing game - Instagram meets Draw Something
Guesswher is a mobile location-based photo guessing game. Sharing pictures of the places you visit is now an engaging, social activity. Post your cool photos and let others guess where they were taken; test your own knowledge of places and spaces by guessing the ...

Find Your Lobster

A Social Dating Game
Find Your Lobster is building a mobile, organic dating app for single people in their 20's and early 30's in NYC. We're making dating fun by gamefying it a bit, leveraging existing social networks, and focusing on a purely mobile experience. Our brand has a ...

GoPrezzo

Connecting brands to gamers through their favourite games
GoPrezzo is a casual games tournament platform provider that connects brands to mobile gamers through their favourite games. GoPrezzo allows gamers to compete in the same leaderboards while playing any game on any mobile platform by using their game score to win ...

Turf Geography Club

iPhone Monopoly
Turf is an awesomely great free to play iPhone game that epitomizes the epic struggle between human and environment (formerly, man vs tree). Imagine a world beyond ours, a mirror universe, where you are the owner of your favorite establishments & wealthy beyond ...

Just Sing It

Instagram for Voice Meets Vine
Singing voice - a critical contributor to the rise of micro-content sharing that we believe has been overlooked in the US yet has seen phenomenal initial success in Asia. Just Sing It - designed initially as a mobile music game - turns into a music community and ...

Civic Games

Social Gaming Meets Adaptive Learning
We are developing Glory, a family of educational resources designed to provide a heretofore impossible level of engagement, efficacy and relevance to the learning process. It's foundation is a three part engine--games, technology, and curriculum--with seamless ...

Fantisserie

Fantasy sports for gamers (Supercell)
Fantisserie is a game of draft strategy and interactive competitions. It is a purely mobile experience, designed for busy people who love fantasy football. We focus on gaming techniques to engage players, and design gameplay that doesn't take a huge time commitment ...

Gondola

Dynamic Pricing for Games
Gondola is the first game analytics tool that offers dynamic pricing for virtual goods and IAP. It thereby manages the relationship between pricing, gameplay, and revenue. We originally started out creating mobile games ourselves (about 2.0M downloads) and developed ...

Game Cloud

Viral News Games
Game Cloud let's anyone easily create their own mobile ready games and distribute them anywhere. Game Cloud keeps users on site longer, increases social engagement and offers unique monetization opportunities. As a bonus, it's all tied together with an affinity ...

AppExtras

Mobile app cross-promotion marketplace
AppExtras is a cross-promotion marketplace for Mobile App Publishers. We are the platform powering "more games" buttons. Publishers using AppExtras get more installs of their apps and earn extra cash for recommending new apps to their existing users. With the ...

Greed Street

Risk meets Monopoly set in the real world
Greed Street is a Global Real Estate strategy game set atop a real world (Google / Bing) map, that pits users against each other to acquire properties and landmarks on their quest toward becoming a Real Estate tycoon. Part social media game, part sports like fantasy game ...

Wissr Inc.

Daily Happiness Delivered!
At Wissr, We are highly passionate about making entertainment and gaming apps. We strongly believe in delivering daily happiness through our mobile products.

FreshPlanet

We are the developer of SongPop - over 100 million users
MOBILE GAMES in NYC The company is developing apps and games around Pop Culture. SongPop has attracted over 100 million players around the world.

Dots

Original games with thoughtful design.

Budge

Mobile giving made fun.
At Budge, we've developed a fun and exciting mobile platform that lets you play with friends and give to charity at the same time. Just create a Budge and challenge your friends to anything. And by anything, we mean it: could be a pizza-eating contest or a burp-off. ...

Liquid Comics

Liquid Comics brings some of the greatest filmmakers, creators and talents to the world of digital entertainment through interactive graphic novels, e-books, animated motion comics & digital video series. Creative collaborators include filmmakers like Barry Sonnenfeld ...

Everything Butt Art

Building creativity from the bottom up.
Everything Butt Art is a platform for kids and parents to create, save, and share art, while also having fun and being silly. Smiling kids are engaged kids.

Hopscotch

A touch-based programming tool and community for kids.
Hopscotch is a programming tool for kids. Our iPad app was the first programming language designed for a touchscreen device. Kids learn organically as they create and the open-ended environment keeps the app compelling each time they return. Kids have a strong ...

Draft

Words with Friends for Fantasy (w/ real money)
Download in the App Store: http://get.playdraft.com 40 million people play fantasy sports. There are 200 million sports fans in America. And until now, there hasn't been a fantasy game built for mobile. That's crazy right?  Draft (live in the app store: get.playdraft.com) ...

Blind8

Mobile dating platform for the Y-generation

Kate's Goodness

User-generated location content 2.0
Kate's Goodness is an app for you – it is a collection of everyone's favorite places from around the world. We call these places GOODNESS. Kate's Goodness app is like having the best friend in town, wherever you go. You just landed in a new place, yet you feel ...

Gundog Studios

Open Source 3D Games
Gundog Studios creates innovative 3D multiplayer games that run on desktop and mobile devices.

Dynasty Sports and Gaming LLC

Mobile daily fantasy sports betting
Dynasty Sports is a mobile daily fantasy sports gaming platform that allows users to pick teams, match-up against friends or random opponents, wager real cash and win all in one day. Dynasty Sports is a simple to use platform that is changing the face of Dynasty ...

Q4

Fashion With Friends

MobiNow Corp.

Mobile Social Media Technology Company
MOBILE SOCIAL APP- With the explosion of Smart Phones and Tablets, location and proximity can be seen in real time, optimizing the dating experience as one can view nearby matches and initiate conversation. FunSexyCool ("FSC") has enabled GPS location and proximity ...

Traffek

Play Your World
Traffek is a mobile gamification and rewards platform for businesses, brands and locations that leverages a combination of human behavioral triggers and new strategies made possible via smartphones, in order to drive more effective monetization, brand awareness, ...

Playmatics

Binary Event Network

Real time sports fantasy game
Pivit is a huge idea. It is the first marketplace that captures, rewards and reports changing public opinion about real-world events in real-time. The Pivit user is presented with a question: Will Something Happen in the Future? If that thing happens, there ...

APP à GOGO

Mobile apps that make you go gaga!
StickyHead is a fun celebrity guessing game that we’ve now brought to mobile devices. Participants get to be silly with their friends (i.e., slapping virtual sticky notes on each other’s faces!) and compete in this trivia on the go. Guesswher is a mobile location-based ...

Squar'd

Mobile photo sharing game
Squar’d is a mobile app that turns photo sharing into a fun game. Photos are 'squarified' to create puzzles that can be sent as challenges to friends. Users must solve a Squar’d puzzle before getting to to see the complete photo. Users earn points for solving ...

Moor Games

fusing culture and mobile gaming
Moor Games makes pop-culture infused mobile games that give consumers access to interactive gameplay and their favorite celebrities. We utilize celebrity influence to tap into the world's admiration for musicians, athletes, comedians, etc, and then partner with ...

XYverify Corp.

XYverify is a Proximity-to-Transact verification service.
XYverify geofences any mobile device in background of a transaction without any software or download onto the device.

Navin Advisory Partners

Legal and Financial Advisory/Capital Markets Services to Emerging Firms
Providing financial and legal advice to emerging growth firms. Wide ranging background representing companies in varying industries and geographies. Graduate of Duke, Georgetown Law and Columbia Business School

TBD

Choose-your-own-adventure platform
TBD is a choose-your-own-adventure platform for mobile. Users tap their way through a story to make a video that is all theirs and totally unique. Then you can watch the full story you've made, without choice-interruption, and share it with your friends to compare ...

SuperData Research

Digital games market intelligence
SuperData combines digital point-of-sale data with qualitative consumer insights. Founded in 2009, SuperData collects behavioral data directly from publishers and developers, to identify key trends, establish revenue estimates, and analyze market changes for ...

FEED THE FIRE

Web Based Musical Platform
A Professional Player Provides the KEY Audio Teaser File The Amateur Player Jams and Gets Inspired over it Creating his "Own" Song.

TenToes Fuerte

Co-Viewing Sports Application
CageCommand lets the participants show and prove their expertise with friends and competitors in real time while watching combat sporting events.

Tournament Trading Technologies Ltd

Fantasy Sports Meets The Stock Market Meets Tournament Poker
SuperStockJockey is an interactive social gaming platform that allows users to “play” the markets through its proprietary trading platform. Using standard tournament format, traders are able to compete for cash prizes while trading the markets against other ...

Rally Games

Action-based asynchronous multiplayer
Top Bot is a fun and addictive social game for iOS that's unlike anything else in the App Store. It was recently named by Mashable as one of the 15 best free games for iPad, alongside the monster succeses Clash of Clans and Letterpress. Top Bot combines turn-based ...

Toppic™

Photo Search and Exploration
iPhone app - Coming soon!

Ace Roster // فريقك

Competitive Online Football (Soccer) Gaming Platform
Fariqak is a strategy game where users form their ideal football (soccer) teams from actual players in various European leagues. While forming the team is a fantasy, the point system is directly tied into the reality of actual league matches, and the performance ...

KaptureIt

Turn the city into your playground with this location based rewards game
KaptureIt creates “real world gaming experiences’ that brands can use to engage mobile customers and push them offline, driving in-store traffic via contests and competitions. And rather than requiring brands to utilize our own standalone app, KaptureIt integrates ...

Playbucks

A new social gaming hub on your iPhone
A free iPhone app that lets you earn real rewards while playing games with your friends.

Reentry Games

Cross platform multiplayer gaming
Reentry Games has built a cutting edge game platform that allows for real-time multiplayer gaming across all platforms (web, mobile, tablet). After 16 months of development, the team is close to releasing the first in-house game built on this platform, Little ...

Animus Interactive LLC

Video Game Company
Animus Interactive is a brand new player in the field for game development. We are in the middle of our first title we are producing called Avalon Lords. We are looking forward to this first title release, and with 20K+ users already looking forward to its release, ...

White Shoe Media

Making awesome indie games in NYC since '09
Subrats HD https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id427627943?mt=8 Woolski https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/woolski/id580225780?mt=8 Subrats Halloween https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/subrats-halloween/id467970387?mt=8 Subrats Classic https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/subrats-classic/id375029786?mt=8

Elevation Labs

We developed mobile games and helped businesses navigate social media.

Smarcle, Inc.

iOS mobile games
Smarcle is a new mobile games studio that wants to bring real innovation and design principles to the world of iOS games. We are a small team looking to grow in all directions as we take the App Store by storm. We make games for all ages that test the mind while ...

Appnometry Inc

Mobile Games, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Concept Designing
Games for various mobile devices, social media sites, home consoles and PC (2D and 3D games of various genre such as racing, action, arcade, adventure, puzzle, educational, quiz etc). Applications which cater to the everyday needs of people offering useful services ...

Prepwise Games

Sticky fun standarized test prep
Mobile games designed, using the latest science and technology that will provide a deeper learning experience by increasing comprehension, retention, and involvement.

Clutter Media LTD

Feel the rush; Take the Plunge
We are online gaming company with multiple gaming website and mobile games app.

Gamblus

Stealth Tech Startup
TBA

Blue Label Labs

Boutique mobile app design and development lab
Blue Label Labs is a New York based iOS, Android and Windows Phone mobile design and development lab. We build apps! We offer design, engineering, and implementation services for mobile apps.

My test startup

test solution for virtual gaming
Test solution for Virtual gaming

Mojocreatives

Your Cultural media on the Go!
Mojocreatives LLC is an online development and distribution company of cultural themed games and films. With a network of over 20 gaming websites, we reach millions of casual gamers every month. And our library of over 30 flash games are played everyday all across ...

Wordolia

A take on Words with Friends and Bejeweled.
Wordolia aims to be a refined combination of Words with Friends and Bejeweled. There's really not much about describing a game short of a playable demo or clip, which are in the immediate queue.

GUERILLAPPS

Playdate App

Astro Ape Studios

Fill My Blank

Mobile Card Games
A mobile version of Cards Against Humanity.

FreePlay Labs

Mobile developer for entertainment properties.
FreePlay Labs develops, markets, and publishes interactive applications for smartphones and tablets. Recent projects include: COWBOYS & ALIENS, an arcade shooter for iOS and Android devices based on the Cowboys & Aliens property. * The game was released simultaneously ...

GetAppRewards

An app reward network in which app users accumulate reward points for playing games.
GetAppRewards.com is mobile advertising platform which helps app developers monetize their apps by driving "quality users" to their app. We use creative strategies to get quality users to the app through our SDK, so the user stays long enough so the developer ...

Micronet

We are a team of entrepreneurs develops and publishes cross-platform games. It offers fighting, multiplayer, strategy, puzzle, shooter, social networking, and soccer games on personal computer and mobile platforms. For the last decade, three companies have ruled ...

RM Mobile

Real Money Gaming on Mobile (e.g. play you in Angry Birds for $10)
$RMG is a real money mobile gaming development firm. Users can play our skill based iOS games against each other for cash and we take 5% of the net wager (e.g. I can play you in Candy Crush for $10). Since they are “skill” games they are legal in the United States. Please ...

Cosi Productions

Ea sports meets The Sims
Cosi Productions LLC is a mobile gaming start up based in New York City focused on creating the next wave of celebrity-focused apps unlike any other. We have just released our first mobile game, called Pele: King of Football, with legendary soccer icon Pele. Upon ...

Lamplighter Games

Mobile Games via proprietary social gaming platform
Trivia Party - Challenge your friends to a game of trivia. TechCrunch called it, "The Draw Something of little known facts" iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/trivia-party-by-lamplighter/id525792188?ls=1&mt=8 Droid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lamplightergames.triviaparty

Rstyle

Alter Your Reality

Screeneater

Mobile app development and consulting.
Screenater is an app development and consulting startup founded by Steven Fleisher. Fleisher has been producing chart-topping iPhone apps since the App Store opened in 2008. He produced the #1 best-selling and most downloaded paid app called Pocket Devil. Screeneater ...

Veraxon Entertainment

Massive 3D MMORPG on Mobile (iOS & Android)
Midgard Rising is a mobile full 3D MMORPG game and platform that brings core gaming to mobile devices: iPhones, iPads, and all Android-based devices. Includes our engine technology to make full 3D MMORPG possible on mobile devices for other games too. Midgard ...

aQtivity

Keep track of your social ranking among your Facebook friends.
Why have you shared your experiences, hobbies, and interests on Facebook? Clearly, those moments were important to you… and then passed. Now, all of those life situations are once again relevant to your social presence. It doesn’t end there. There will be weekly ...

Apptastic

Mobile App and Game Crowdfunding Platform.
A mobile Crowd funding platform for entrepreneurs, game developers and businesses to crowd fund their mobile app or game. We believe creating apps is the easy part. Funding that project or next version can take time, research, and multiple letdowns. By the time ...

Travel Lotto

Travel Lotto is a social game for travelers; think TripAdvisor meets slot machine.
Travel Lotto lets you share photos, win points, cash in for prizes and play against others with a series of casual games and fun data matching. Casual gaming is great, but why not spend time playing to win something that you want? like a vacation. Our primary ...

Designsters

Custom software development
We provide a total range of web services and high-end software development. We specialize in custom programming, whether a simple web page, HTML5 dynamic file a mobile game or even the most complex crypto-currency exchange, our work is state of the art.

Ownits

Show and Tell meets King of The Hill (game) for extreme sports.
Ownits allows extreme sport athletes, of any level, show off their skills in short 15 second videos while competing to hold the title of "owner" of a given spot (skatepark, beach, mountain, etc.) Our app makes it simple for anyone to join and begin competing.

Zooma App Corp.

Social Texas Hold-em Poker App
Zooma Poker is a new and FREE Application for iPhone, iPad and Android. This app is a Texas Hold-em Poker game with social elements added to the game. The social aspect lets users search for other members and send messages to all members for FREE. The game aspect ...