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Founded in 2013, Mobvista is a global mobile advertising network with 4 offices in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Beijing and San Francisco and over 260 employees. The company specializes in global mobile advertising and overseas game publishing. As of 2015, Mobvista operates in more than 240 countries with 10 billion daily impressions.

The company works with Google, Amazon and Chinese tech majors such as Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Leomaster, Qihoo360, Cheetah Mobile and others. In 2014 the most successful app promoted by Mobvista’s network was Clean Master by Cheetah Mobile that ranked No.1 in Google Play in more than 30 countries.

History

Mobvista was founded in 2013 in Hong Kong by Wei Duan who previously served as the Marketing Director of UCWeb and worked in product management for Huawei Technology.

In July 2013 Mobvista founded sub-brand Vstargame, that has published several mobile games in SEA and Taiwan: “Ải MỹNhân”, “Tiên Kiếm KỳDuyên” and “Vua Bóng Đá”. Distributed in Vietnam, “Ải MỹNhân” reached monthly revenue $600000.

In January 2014 Mobvista released Ad SDK V1.0, and in July 2014 - Native Ads SDK. Mobvista’s Software Development Kit is compatible with 4 mobile operation systems and is available for iOS, Android, Windows and BlackBerry Phone apps. In 2014 annual revenue of the company reached $10 million.

In September 2015 Mobvista announced $100 million investment into India by 2018 and establishment of a new office in New Delhi till the end of the year.

Investments

In October 2014 Mobvista attracted US$10 million investment from NetEase through Round A Financing.

In June 2015 Mobvista has raised RMB200 million (US$32.21 million) in a Series B round of funding led by two industry funds managed by Haitong Kaiyuan Investment that were formed through separate joint ventures with Shanghai Media Group and Golden Eagle Broadcasting System (Mango TV). An investment fund under China Securities also participated in the round. The latest investment valued Mobvista at 2 billion yuan.

Awards

In November 2014 Mobvista was listed No12 among Top 25 Mobile Advertising Partners by Tune, climbing nearly 70 positions.

In January 2015 Mobvista became Google Adwords Premier SMB Partner (PROOF???)

According to the AppsFlyer Gaming Performance Index, released in May 2015, Mobvista was ranked No3 for Android and No10 for iOS games. In the AppsFlyer Performance Index for eCommerce, Travel and Utility Apps, issued in October 2015, Mobvista was rated No2 among the 25 media sources in Android, and No6 – in iOS. In October 2015 Mobvista and  Twitter announced strategic advertising partnership with Mobvista joining Twitter’s Premium Partner program.

Mobvista was included into the lists of Top App Advertising SDKs 2015 by AppIndex and Top Mobile Advertising Platforms 2015 by Mobyaffiliates.

Board members:

Wei Duan, founder, CEO

Clement Cao, co-founder

Eric Huang, co-founder

Li Ma, co-founder