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Build Fund 2013 Winners

After carefully weighing all the applications, we’ve determined the 10 Build Fund winners! This year’s Build Fund theme was creation, and these winners best exemplify that drive to create something different and exciting.

Here’s what our CEO Brian Wong had to say, “With more than 300 applications from developers around the globe, we were again amazed by the overwhelming response to Build Fund this year. In addition to super addicting games, we’re very excited for a wide range of apps in fitness, sports, and even art, to be in the winner's circle this year. All the winners combine cool concepts and unique ideas with great design, and we can’t wait to start rewarding all the awesome moments ahead.”

Each winner receives a $10,000 in cash and $5,000 in services. A special thanks to all our sponsors–Parse, Urban Airship, Amazon Web Services, Crittercism, Localytics and Pepsi’s Propel–who will provide these amazing services and help elevate these apps.

90ninecents Around the World

Around the World tracks your walking distance and gives you goals as if you were traveling the world.

Funday Factory Butterfly Sky

Butterfly Sky is an endless jumper game that requires players to bounce “Brian” off clouds to catch butterflies. (Note: Brian isn’t Brian Wong.)

Canvsly Canvsly

Canvsly lets you capture, organize, share and cherish your child's artwork.

Daily Yoga Daily Yoga

Daily Yoga is a coaching app that provides yoga sessions with videos. It’s like attending a yoga class from your mobile!

JLOOP Gravitations

Gravitations is a space and gravity themed puzzle game with completely user-generated missions. Plot your ship's course to successfully reach the goal station, dodge obstacles and save any lost astronauts along the way.

Sparkling Labs Jewel Pirates

Jewel Pirates is a match-3 game that offers challenging puzzles within an adventurous and explorative setting. Designed by a husband-wife team!

Mooff Games Maximus

Maximus brings you high-tempo action RPG action, inspired by the golden hack 'n slash era of arcade gaming.

Pocket Fantasy Pocket Fantasy

Pocket Fantasy is a weekly turn-based fantasy football game played with friends or random opponents.

Pixel Dash Studios Swap Drop Poker

Swap Drop Poker is a poker-themed variation of match-3 games such as Bejeweled.

Tiny Hearts Limited Wake Alarm

Wake Alarm is a beautiful and innovative alarm for iPhone. Slap to snooze, flip your phone over to turn off alarms or shake to wake.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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Build Fund is Back!

It’s our favorite time of the year again! The demand for another Build Fund was insurmountable, and this year is a little different – with our expansion outside gaming, the second Build Fund is open to indie developers of any app.

This year's Build Fund surrounds one central theme: creation. Sometimes, we get lost in the shuffle of the day to day, the incremental gains, the iteration. Some of the best games and apps today that have inspired entirely new genres came from something less scientific: a spark of genius and inspiration. We want to help facilitate that, being true supporters of genius without getting in the way. We're massive fans of the independent developer community and can’t wait to take these apps to the next level.

In this year’s fund, we’ve partnered with Pepsi to support health and fitness app submissions, with chosen developers being able to integrate rewards from Propel. Pepsi has been a huge supporter of our Fitness Channel and we’re thrilled they’ve jumped on board.

Here’s the goods the ten chosen developers get:

•$10,000 in funds

•$5,000 worth of amazing services, including:      -$2000 AWS credit from Amazon      -Six months Pro access from Parse      -Six months Pro access from Urban Airship      -Six months Premium access from Localytics      -One year Enterprise License from Crittercism

•Priceless advice from an all-star roster of mentors, including:      -Phill Ryu, Co-Creator of Clear and MacHeist      -Jon Jordan, Pocket Gamer      -Phil Black, True Ventures      -Adam D’Augelli, True Ventures      -Lee Linden, Facebook Gifts (previously Tapjoy and Karma)      -Lars Leckie, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners      -Kevin Talbot, Relay Ventures      -Mario Wynands, PikPok Games      -Scott Kveton, Urban Airship      -Matt Van Horn, Path      -Matt Hunter, Jawbone      -Derek van Vliet, Get Set Games      -Markus Kassulke, HandyGames      -Robert Kwok, Crittercism

Having experts who have succeeded in the market is a huge help for developers striking out on their own for the first time, and this entire initiative is our way of helping developers kickstart their apps and overcome the financial obstacles in the indie landscape.

The deadline is May 30th, so apply today and learn more at kiip.me/fund. Build on!

Thanks to all the amazing press on this years fund! Check out articles from: TechCrunch VentureBeat The Next Web Fast Company Pocket Gamer The Drum

Any questions? Email us!

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Announcing Extension of Build Fund with New Mentors and Services

We're humbled by the responses we have received on our Build Fund. We love supporting the independent developer community and today, we are happy to announce that we've partnered up with world class service companies and leading industry mentors to support our winners.

The following services have been added.

$2000 in AWS Credit for AWS Services

6 Month Pro License for Urban Airship

Lifetime Enterprise License for Crittercism

6 Month Pro License for StackMob

We've also added some great industry mentors including investors, developers and more.

The advisor group includes:

Roy Bahat - President of IGN

Perry Tam - CEO of Storm8

Phil Black - Founder of True Ventures

Dave Jones - Creator of Lemmings game series

Derek Smith - Co-Founder of Get Set Games, developer of Mega Jump

Lee Linden - Co-Founder of Tapjoy

Eric Chin - General Partner at Crosslink Capital

Aziz Gilani - Director at DFJ Mercury

Scott Kveton - CEO of Urban Airship

Lars Leckie - Managing Director at Hummer Winblad

Caryl Shaw - Executive Producer at Callaway Digital Arts

Doug Chertok - General Partner at Vast Ventures

Paige Craig - CEO of BetterWorks

We will also be extending the submission deadline to May 30th.

We're very excited to team up with these services and advisors. Best of luck to the applicants! You can learn more about the Build Fund here.