socialDeck aquired by Google!! UTR Presenter 2009
Posted August 30, 2010 by Clare Jacobson
Congratulations to 2009 Under the Radar company socialDeck for being acquired by Google!! What an amazing accomplishment for this fantastic team.

Google is it’s way to building “the most powerful gaming platform on the web” and socialDeck will be an integral part of that process, we’re sure!
Here’s a video of socialDeck’s presentation, as well as their presentation slides:
Some company information:
Launched 2008, San Francisco, CA and Toronto, Canada
Twitter: @socialdeck
Company Description | socialDeck is building a cross-platform gaming technology that enables social gaming on smart phones. Focused on bringing distribution and monetization opportunities that already exist on web social games to the phone, the socialDeck platform allows players to compete against one another on various devices (eg. iPhone vs. Blackberry vs. Web players). Games distributed on the platform all have integrated social networking and community features such as friend discovery, invites, leaderboards, chat, new feeds, plus virtual goods exchanges.
Competitors | Playfish, Zynga, ng:moco
Investors | BlackBerry Partner’s Fund
Presenter | Anish Acharya | CEO
Prior to co-founding socialDeck, Anish spent several years at Amazon.com working as an engineer in the distributed messaging space. Additionally, Anish worked with senior management to develop an internal incubation program at Amazon and bring disruptive new ideas to market. Anish is a graduate of the Computer Engineering program at the University of Waterloo.

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