Appota Corporation

Appota Corporation is the developer and provider of creative platforms for Vietnam’s digital entertainment industry.[1] Appota's core business includes digital content production and distribution, eSports, advertising, gaming creators, online payment, cloud computing, IoT and business management. Appota's customers are individuals, game and app developers, advertising partners, e-commerce partners

Appota Corporation
TypeCorporation
IndustryEntertainment
Game Publishing
Advertisement
Payment
FoundedDecember 12, 2011
HeadquartersBuilding 11 (LE Building), Alley 71, Lang Ha St., Ba Dinh Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam.
ProductsGamota - Game Publishing
AppotaX
Appota e-Wallet
AppotaPay
Gamehub: Mobile Game Media Portal
LNY - Appota Calendar Application
Appota Card
Appota Reports
WiFi Chua
Appota Esports
Number of employees
300 - 350

There are 4 subsidiary companies owned by Appota Group: Gamota (Game publishing company), Adsota (Advertisement company), AppotaPay (Payment company), Kdata (hosting server). Appota’s headquarter is in Hanoi and extend its business to HCMC, and Singapore.[2]

History
  • 12/12/2011, Appota was founded in the first Topica Founder Institute in Vietnam.
  • 07/2012, Received the Most Disruptive Award from Founder Institute.
  • 11/2012, Delivered marketing service for international branches including NHN, UC, Kakao and Zepto Labs.
  • 26/01/2013, Received “Vietnam’s Most Potential Tech Startup Award”.[3][4]
  • 03/2013, Setup the first oversea office in Singapore.
  • 04/2013, Set up business representative offices in HCM city & Indonesia.
  • 9/2013, Presented onClan, the first gaming social network for mobile gamers, in TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 in San Francisco.
  • 04/2014, Launched Gamehub, the first game portal specialized for mobile gamers.
  • 12/2014, 22 million users in Vietnam and Southest Asia on Appota platform.
  • 01/2015, Launched Applancer, a mobile outsourcing platform.
  • 09/2015, Introduced AppotaPay, Adsota.
  • 2016, Changed the slogan to "Technology For Change".
  • 02/2017, Appota launched AppotaX, for mobile publishers based on Google Ad Exchange Platform.[5]
  • 03/2017, Appota closed an undisclosed Series C round from Korea Investment Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment.[6]
  • 10/2017, Adsota became The Official Facebook Agency in Vietnam[7]
  • 01/2018, Adsota Vietnam received a strategic investment from Korea's TNK Factory to conquer Southeast Asia's mobile advertising market.
  • 03/2018, Appota announces the fully acquisition of WiFi Chua[8]
  • 05/2018, Appota introduced OTA Network.
  • 08/2018, Appota founded Takademy.
  • 02/2019, Appota changed the slogan to “Entertainment Ecosystem”[9]
  • 04/2019, Appota Esports organized World Cyber Game 2019 - Vietnam qualifying round.
  • 08/2019, Appota became a member of Vietnam E-commerce Association (VECOM).
  • 12/2019, Appota officially jumped into the smarthome field[10] with the AppotaHome project and launched the sales of AppotaLock AS-1 smart lock accessories and AppotaLock AN-1 smart lock.
  • 04/2020, AppotaHome has officially launched the smart fingerprint lock AM1 to improve customer's asset security.
  • 07/2020, OTA Network in cooperation with Facebook Gaming to launch OTA Plus project.
  • 10/2020, AppotaPay is officially licensed by the State Bank Vietnam to join the e-wallet market as a payment intermediary.

Products and Services

Gamota

Gamota is one of the three main game publishers leading Vietnamese market[11] with games such as: Tru Tien 3D, Vainglory, Survival Heroes Vietnam, Tieu Ngao Giang Ho Mobile, Ai My Nhan, Tien Nghich.[12]

Adsota

Adsota provides mobile marketing platform.

In 2017, Adsota became the exclusive partner of AppotaX, a mobile ads optimization platform on Google Ad Exchange.

On January 18, 2018, Adsota - a mobile advertising services provider in Vietnam and TNK Factory - an advertising services provider under Kakao Group Korea, officially announced a strategic investment deal to tap the mobile advertising market in Southeast Asia.[13]

AppotaPay

AppotaPay provides payment intermediary services as well as electronic walet, payment gateways and collection services.

AppotaPay is the 39th licensed payment intermediary services unit approved by the State Bank of Vietnam

References
  1. ".com - Con đường dẫn tới thành công". Báo điện tử Dân Trí (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  2. "Contact Page". Appota.com. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  3. "Appota wins Vietnam's Most Potential Tech Startup Award 2012". e27. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  4. "FI.co: Congratulations to the Winners of the 2013 Founder Institute Graduate Awards". The Founder Institute. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  5. "Ra mắt AppotaX giúp cảnh báo sớm các vi phạm trên kho tải Google Play". ictnews.vn (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  6. "Appota gọi vốn thành công từ hai quỹ đầu tư Hàn Quốc". VietNamNet. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  7. "Adsota becomes Facebook's first Gaming Agency in Vietnam". vneconomictimes.com. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  8. "Appota tuyên bố hoàn tất mua lại ứng dụng WiFi Chùa". VietNamNet (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  9. ""Thoát xác" mobile, Appota chuyển hướng sang công ty công nghệ giải trí". ictnews.vn (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  10. Lazarus, Sarah. "How new technology is transforming Vietnam's economy". CNN. Retrieved 2020-12-24.
  11. "4 nhà phát hành sẽ làm khuynh đảo thị trường game mobile Việt Nam". Game4V. 2015-05-26. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
  12. Danh sách trò chơi của Gamota
  13. "[TCBC] Adsota Việt Nam nhận đầu tư chiến lược từ TNK Factory của Hàn Quốc, chinh phục thị trường quảng cáo di động Đông Nam Á". Appota News (in Vietnamese). 2018-01-18. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
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