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Ready Games operates The Ready Games, a competitive hyper-casual mobile gaming platform, and builds web3 game-creation technology.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Ready (also referred to as Ready Games) is a New York-based gaming company founded in 2016 by David S. Bennahum, who serves as founder and CEO. It is the maker of The Ready Games, described as a hyper-casual esports tournament platform for casual mobile games, in which players compete in short original games for cash prizes. Players get unlimited practice attempts but only a single official scoring run, with prize money distributed among the top 20% of scorers on the leaderboard. As of 2019 the app was available only in the United States and Canada.
The company's games are produced in-house using its proprietary Ready Maker development platform, which supports a release cadence of three new games per week, launched Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3:00 p.m. Eastern, plus an additional weekend title. A venture profile categorizes Ready Games as a seed-stage gaming platform developing web3 gaming technology and infrastructure aimed at democratizing game creation for both amateur and professional creators, and notes that it operates with its own token to support mobile gaming.
Founding story
The company was founded in 2016 and is led by founder and CEO David S. Bennahum, who has framed its aim as opening competitive gaming to players beyond traditional "hardcore" gamers, arguing that widespread touch-enabled devices have created an untapped market of casual players who want to compete.
Business model
Ready operates a platform business: it develops games in-house with its Ready Maker technology and distributes them through The Ready Games app, where players enter tournaments and prize money is split among the top 20% of high scorers. Coverage references subscriber growth for the app, and a venture profile describes the company as operating with a token tied to mobile gaming.
Reported activity points to app subscribers, with 30% month-over-month subscriber growth cited as of August 2019.
Traction
As of August 2019, the company reported 130 original game tournaments produced over the previous six months and 30% month-over-month subscriber growth for The Ready Games app.
Latest developments
A venture investor profile lists Ready Games as a seed-stage gaming company backed by BITKRAFT Ventures that develops web3 gaming technology and infrastructure focused on democratizing game creation, operating with its own token in support of mobile gaming.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Ready positions The Ready Games as an active competitive platform for casual mobile games and, per its investors, one of the more prolific mobile developers on the App Store. Investor commentary at the time of the 2019 round emphasized the company's appeal to female mobile gamers, citing that 65% of U.S. women play mobile games and that women make up almost half of the mobile gaming population.
The combination of an in-house Ready Maker production pipeline that yields several new titles each week with a cash-prize tournament structure aimed at mainstream and female casual players, rather than traditional esports audiences.
Technology
Ready Maker is the company's proprietary game development platform, used as the basis of an in-house studio that produced 130 original game tournaments over a six-month period preceding August 2019 and enables three new game launches per week. A later venture profile describes the company as developing web3 gaming technology and infrastructure, including a token used to support mobile gaming.
Go-to-market
Growth has been pursued through user acquisition and paid advertising; after the 2019 round the company said it would expand its user acquisition team, increase ad budgets and test more ad creative including playable samples of its games. It also planned to broaden prizing and game formats and add peer-to-peer tournaments between friends. Publishers had approached the company about partnerships for international expansion.
Casual mobile gamers who do not identify as traditional or hardcore gamers, with investors specifically highlighting the female mobile gaming audience.
Geography
Announcements were issued from New York, NY. As of 2019 the app was distributed in the United States and Canada, with the company stating its focus remained on North America while considering later international expansion.
History
Founded in 2016, Ready built The Ready Games platform and the Ready Maker development technology, and in August 2019 announced $5 million in funding led by BITKRAFT Esports Ventures with participation from Comcast Ventures and Eldridge Industries. Reporting on the round described it variously as seed funding and a Series A. The company later became associated with web3 gaming technology and infrastructure.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsReady, maker of The Ready Games hyper-casual esports tournament platform, announced $5 million in funding led by BITKRAFT Esports Ventures with participation from new investors Comcast Ventures and Eldridge Industries, to be used to grow its player audience. PocketGamer.biz described the round as seed funding; GamesIndustry.biz reported it as a Series A.
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primary sources listed
- Hyper-casual competitive gaming platform Ready secures $5 million in seed funding round led by Bitkraft | PocketGamer.bizpocketgamer.biz · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Ready Games do?
- Ready Games operates The Ready Games, a competitive hyper-casual mobile gaming platform, and builds web3 game-creation technology.
- Who are Ready Games's investors?
- Ready Games's investors include Bitkraft Esports Ventures, Black Dragon, Cogitent Ventures, Mulana Capital, Purechain Capital, Comcast Ventures.