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Grantoo

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Grantoo brings Fortune 500 advertising to casual mobile games through brand sponsored tournaments; players enter for free and win prizes and charity donations.

For brands they offer a unique way to engage with high value users in a way that builds brand equity drives actions and gathers deep data.

For games they dramatically increase monetization through premium advertising that adds to the game experience and drive re-engagement by hosting unique events on games, while supporting server-side their infrastructure.

Currently Grantoo has raised over $2.5m, works with brands such as Hilton, VISA and Ford and is integrated in 12 games.

Recent Milestones

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  Grantoo added Alan Price as Chief Technology Officer. (6/1/12)
  Posted 10/11/12 at 10:22am
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  Grantoo received $1.38M in Seed funding. (4/7/12)
  Posted 10/11/12 at 3:45am via techcrunch.com
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  Grantoo added Christopher Tinypants Dang as Head of Design. (8/1/11)
  Posted 2/29/12 at 11:23am
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  Grantoo added Dimitri Sillam as Co-Founder. (7/1/11)
  Posted 2/22/12 at 3:35pm
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  Grantoo added Mikhael Naayem as Co-Founder. (7/1/11)
  Posted 2/29/12 at 7:10pm
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  Grantoo received $1.1M in Seed funding. (6/1/11)
  Posted 6/13/12 at 10:21am
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  Grantoo added David Tyler York as Director BD.
  Posted 4/10/13 at 3:22pm
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  Grantoo added Derrick Aynaga as Producer.
  Posted 5/16/13 at 12:03pm
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  Grantoo added Aaron Avery as Director Sales.
  Posted 5/16/13 at 12:03pm

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Our Space!
Uploaded: 3/3/12

Sources

1. Angel Investors [edit]
2. Grantoo Nabs $1.7M, Steals EA Canada CTO To Help Students Pay Tuition By Playing Social Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]