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PlaytestCloud
Playtesting-as-a-service
- 201-500 employees
- B2B
- Gaming
- Mobile
- Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
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Company mission
To help studios make games that players love.
9% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
In its simplest terms, PlaytestCloud helps game studios create better games. Its platform conducts various playtests for mobile games at any stage of development, whether that's during prototyping or after release. At a time where mobile gaming is as accessible as ever, with a number of competing studios in an overly saturated market, PlaytestCloud is primed for uptake.
Indeed, this is also the case because of how the company stands out as one of the leading companies offering playtesting-as-a-service, and is able to help studios in a myriad of ways. Its platform helps reduce churn and drop-out rates and does this through connecting studios with a diverse set of international, ‘everyday’ players, who they can watch play the games and ask for direct feedback.
With over 500 customers across diverse countries, the company has seen enormous growth since its founding in 2014. In 2022 alone, nearly 4,000 playtests were carried out. Games tested with its platform include ‘King of Thieves’, ‘The Walk Dead: No Man’s Land’, and ‘Star Trek Timelines’, to name but a few.
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Benefits
- Connect with international experts: We bring everyone together twice a year for our summer & winter celebrations
- Working abroad (workation): You can work up to 90 days per year from anywhere in the world
- Bootstrapped, profitable and with great ambitions
- Maximum flexibility (hybrid culture with up to 100% remote): Work where you want
- Team building: We organize regular remote, hybrid, and in-person team events to build a strong team spirit
Company values
- Be a role model who leads by example
- Know your vision and values
- Change for the better
- Trust one another
- Encourage people to be proud
- Promote diverse and differing perspectives
- Show empathy and take mistakes as experiences
- Actively listen first, talk last
- Help to develop future leaders
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2012
$0.2m
GRANT
Total funding: $0.2m
Leadership
Christian Ress
(Co-founder)Co-founded fonie.de. Previously acted as Managing Director for Killing & Ress and as a Software Engineer for NVIDIA and mental images.
Marvin Killing
(Co-founder)Previously underwent Internships for SAP and Fraunhofer IESE (Institute for Experimental Software Engineering).
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at PlaytestCloud
- At PlaytestCloud, we believe in an inclusive culture. We are aware that each individual may experience inclusion differently, meaning that we offer different types of support to make people feel they have become part of the “we”. We even committed ourselves to inclusion when becoming part of the ‘Inklupreneur’ movement!