Welcome to Lolapps.com

Founded in 2008, we took applications to the next level by building the quiz, gift and game creator platforms that provided user-generated, customizable applications. Lolapps is now also one of the fastest growing social games company with over 300,000 user generated applications and 11 games in their portfolio. Everything Lolapps does is geared towards bringing the best possible social entertainment experience!

We make social games and applications that are unique, entertaining and make people laugh… out loud. We began with virtual quizzes and gifting, and we've quickly become one of the most recognizable social developers in the space. Our exclusive Quiz and Gift Creator platforms allow hundreds of thousands of users to create and distribute their own social applications without any programming knowledge. Due to an intuitive application interface and a keen understanding of viral marketing we have harnessed the creativity of a vast social network.

Virtual gifts are an integral feature of most social games, and our experience in this arena is second to none. Utilizing easy to learn and engaging features, stunning imagery, and in-depth story lines, these games are quickly being recognized as a standard for what is to come in the social gaming space.

Game design is largely driven by user feedback, we are able to stay in step with the demands of our target demographics. Users appreciate this level of care and attentiveness, and we believe this is why enthusiastic players adopt our games early and continue to get behind our newest titles.

• • We were the first user generated platform for applications on Facebook
• • Our Users have sent over 5 billion gifts
• • Over 1.1 million quizzes created and over 2.2 billion quizzes taken
• • Over 300,000 active applications on Facebook

Series A:  $4 million from Polaris Venture Partners, Ron Conway, and Ariel Poler

Members:   Kavin Stewart, Arjun Sethi, Mike Hirshland, Ariel Poler

Ron Conway

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• August - Lolapps launches Critter Island for Facebook
• March - Lolapps launches Garden Life

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• December - Lolapps announces Partnership with Electronic Arts and releases Band Of Heroes
• October - Lolapps Launches Band Of Heroes
• September - Lolapps and Cryptic Studios announce partnership and release Champions Online
• September - Lolapps sends over 5 billion gifts on Facebook
• August - Lolapps launches Yakuza Lords and Diva Life
• June - Lolapps acquires ROFLplay, Inc.
• June - Lolapps releases RPG games platform
• January - Lolapps hits 40 million monthly active users

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• September - Lolapps raises $4 million in venture funding from Polaris Venture Partners
• September - Lolapps hits 20 million monthly active users
• February - Lolapps reaches 1 million monthly active users
• January - Lolapps launches and announces profitability as of day one
• January - Founders launch the first Application Creator
• January - Kavin Stewart, Annie Chang, Kamo Asatryan, Brian Rue launch found Lolapps from Kavin's parent's house.

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• November - Launched first applications on Facebook Platform

• • Arjun Sethi  
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • As CEO, Arjun is responsible for setting the overall strategic vision for Lolapps and guiding the development of fresh, high quality social products.

    Prior to Lolapps, Arjun was the CEO and founder of ROFLplay, a social gaming startup which was acquired by Lolapps in July 2009. Arjun initially served as the Head of Business and Corporate Development for Lolapps and was named CEO in March 2010. Previously, Arjun has held various management roles with the Carlyle Group and Saset Healthcare. In 1999, he also co-founded Advanced Tuning Products, a manufacturing company within the automotive industry.

    Arjun currently serves on the Board of Advisors for isocket and is an active angel investor. Arjun holds a B.A , B.S in History, Economics from University of Maryland, College Park.

• • Kavin Stewart
  • Vice President of Product and Co-founder
  • Kavin oversees the development and management of Lolapps games and properties.

    Kavin co-founded Lolapps in January 2008 and has helped to lead the company from zero to 40 million monthly unique visitors across various social networks. Prior to founding Lolapps, Kavin held product manager roles with Offermatica and SquareTrade.com. Kavin also worked as a software engineer at FactSet and ZeroG Software (acquired by MacroVision). Additionally, Kavin was one of three developers who built the backend and frontend of Skobee.com using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and AJAX.

• • AJ Cantu  
  • Vice President of Engineering
  • Before coming to Lolapps, AJ wore many senior software development hats. Previously, AJ, held a role as a Development Manager at Marchex. AJ also holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

• • Brian Rue  
  • Head of Technology and Co-founder
  • Brian drives the company's technical vision and architecture. He is currently on leave from Stanford University, where he studied finance and computer science.

• • Kavin Stewart
  • Kavin has led the company since January 2008 from zero to 40million monthly unique visitors across various social networks. Prior to Lolapps Kavin held multiple positions from wide ranges of programming to product management. He also held a PM position at Offermatica which was acquired by Omniture. Kavin holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.

• • Brian Rue  
  • Brian drives the company's technical vision and architecture. He is currently on leave from Stanford University, where he studied finance and computer science.

• • Annie Chang  
  • Prior to Lolapps, Annie held various technology roles, as an engineer at Adobe (Advanced Technology Labs), followed by holding a startup position at BitTorrent as a product manager. Annie holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.

• • Kamo Asatryan  
  • Kamo Asatryan is a co-founder at Lolapps and is in charge of monetization. Prior to Lolapps, Kamo was an SEO consultant. He also played lots of chess and conducted nanotechnology research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Kamo likes to practice martial arts and dance. He speaks three languages and also enjoys smiling. Sometimes he drinks grapefruit juice.

• • Brenda Brathwaite  
  • Creative Director
  • A game industry veteran, Brenda is the company's creative director. She is an award-winning game designer and has worked on titles in the Wizardry®, Jagged Alliance®, Dungeons and Dragons® and Def Jam® series and has published on virtually every platform from tabletop to console to Facebook. Her non-digital game Train recently won the Vanguard award at IndieCade "for pushing the boundaries of game design and showing us what games can do." In addition to making games, Brenda is also a voracious game player, has her own d10s and plays well with others.

• Lolapps Headquarters
• 116 New Montgomery Street Suite #700
• 415-243-0749
• San Francisco, CA 94105
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• Business Development
• bizdev@lolapps.com

• Human Resources
• hr@lolapps.com

• Press Inquiries
• pr@lolapps.com

We have pushed the boundaries in terms of the flexibility, adaptability, and creative expression in our Lolapps Game Creator Platform. With over 4 games and larger partners on our platform, we created a phenomenal foundation for innovating and expanding on how developers and traditional publishers can extend their brand, develop new relationships, and enrich their customers around their interests and passions.

Lolapps offers complete flexibility to our select partners to be instituted on our publishing network. Lolapps enables individuals, game companies, brands and organizations to extend their own unique experience on the Lolapps Publishing Network that beautifully integrates within the rich environment of Facebook and other social media services while providing the most direct, unique and lucrative relationship with fans, consumers and members.

By joining the Lolapps Publishing network, you can take your traditional brand experience and extend it into a unique and engaging game experience. By appealing to your own and new demographic audiences you can continue a 1:1 communication all the time.

When you extend your brand onto the Lolapps Publishing Network, you get access to over 44million monthly active unique users across all of our Gifts, Quizzes, and Games properties. Utilizing that reach and distribution, we can help place your brand and experience into the right market.

Our Game creator platform combines itself with the rich invitation and viral engines of Facebook for you and members to invite new members. Our platforms allow for users to reach directly out to moderating forums and discussion groups. Build a community in a matter of weeks.

For further information please send an email to bizdev@lolapps.com or pr@lolapps.com