Luckyfish Games closes Series A funding

Social game developer LuckyFish Games closed off $1.6 million in Series A funding led by Carmel Ventures, a member of the Viola Group.

This is the first investment for Carmel Ventures in the social gaming development sector, led by Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Carmel who also joined the Company’s board of directors.

LuckyFish Games launched its first portfolio of 22 social games through OMG! Fortune on Facebook recently, it was founded at the end of 2012 by Roi Fishman, formerly an Infrastructure & Poker Delivery Manager at online gaming firm 888. Fishman is also the co-founder of SparkyBee, another social games developer.

In addition to its Facebook platform activity, LuckyFish said it will launch an Android version of OMG! Fortune in the coming days and an iOS version by next month.

“This funding will allow us to capture the rapidly evolving opportunity in the growing market of social gaming as a whole and social fortune games in particular,” Fishman commented. “We are excited about the coming launch of our Android and iOS game versions and the rapid growth of our community of fans. The partnership with Carmel Ventures is also a validation of our innovative viral offering and our business model.”

“We found LuckyFish to have a unique combination of a professional management team, exclusive content, and a cutting edge BI system which enables real-time analysis,” said Daniel Cohen, General Partner at Carmel Ventures.  “These are the key factors to LuckyFish’s growth in a very exciting market.”

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