AAA OnMobile Global grabs Back to the Game

OnMobile Global grabs Back to the Game

OnMobile Global Solutions Canada, part of mobile entertainment provider OnMobile Global, has paid an undisclosed sum to fully acquire portfolio company Back to the Game, a Canada-based game analytics software provider.

Founded in 2017, Back to the Game has built a visual artificial intelligence and big data-equipped platform called Rob0 that helps game developers understand player behaviour and engagement level in a bid to improve their products.

OnMobile Global Solutions Canada had paid C$1m ($710,000) for a 25% stake in Back to the Game in May 2020. The acquisition is part of the corporate’s plan to create a direct-to-consumer mobile gaming platform dubbed Onmo.

Krish Seshadri, chief executive of OnMobile Global, said: “Rob0 has been an integral part of our cloud gaming product, Onmo. Rob0’s technology and vision AI picks the best parts of a game and helps Onmo create thousands of short, unique challenges for mobile casual esports players.”

By Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.