Appota Corporation

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Appota Corporation

Type	Corporation
Industry	Entertainment Advertisement Payment
Founded	December 12, 2011
Headquarters	Building 11 (LE Building), Alley 71, Lang Ha St., Ba Dinh Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam.
Products	Gamota - 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	450

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

There are 4 subsidiary companies owned by Appota Group: Gamota (Game publishing company), Adsota (Digital Marketing company), AppotaPay (Payment & Fintech company), Kdata (Cloud infrastructure solutions company).

History[]

2011[]

• 12/12/2011, Appota was founded in the first Topica Founder Institute in Vietnam.^{[citation needed]}

2012[]

• 07/2012, Received the Most Disruptive Award from Founder Institute.^{[citation needed]}
• 11/2012, Delivered marketing service for international branches including NHN, UC, Kakao and Zepto Labs.^{[citation needed]}

2013[]

• 26/01/2013, Received “Vietnam’s Most Potential Tech Startup Award”.^[2][3]
• 03/2013, Setup the first oversea office in Singapore.^{[citation needed]}
• 04/2013, Set up business representative offices in HCM city & Indonesia.^{[citation needed]}
• 9/2013, Presented onClan, the first gaming social network for mobile gamers, in TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 in San Francisco.^{[citation needed]}

2014[]

• 04/2014, Launched Gamehub, the first game portal specialized for mobile gamers.^{[citation needed]}
• 12/2014, 22 million users in Vietnam and Southeast Asia on Appota platform.^{[citation needed]}

2015[]

• 01/2015, Launched Applancer, a mobile outsourcing platform.^{[citation needed]}
• 09/2015, Introduced AppotaPay, Adsota.^{[citation needed]}

2016[]

• 2016, Changed the slogan to "Technology For Change".^{[citation needed]}

2017[]

• 02/2017, Appota launched AppotaX, for mobile publishers based on Google Ad Exchange Platform.^[4]
• 03/2017, Appota closed an undisclosed Series C round from Korea Investment Partners and Mirae Asset Venture Investment.^[5]
• 10/2017, Adsota became The Official Facebook Agency in Vietnam^[6]

2018[]

• 01/2018, Adsota Vietnam received a strategic investment from Korea's TNK Factory to conquer Southeast Asia's mobile advertising market.^{[citation needed]}
• 03/2018, Appota announces the fully acquisition of WiFi Chua^[7]
• 05/2018, Appota introduced OTA Network.^{[citation needed]}
• 08/2018, Appota founded Takademy.^{[citation needed]}

2018[]

• 02/2019, Appota changed the slogan to “Entertainment Ecosystem”^[8]
• 04/2019, Appota Esports organized World Cyber Game 2019 - Vietnam qualifying round.^{[citation needed]}
• 08/2019, Appota became a member of Vietnam E-commerce Association (VECOM).^{[citation needed]}
• 12/2019, Appota officially jumped into the smarthome field^[9] with the AppotaHome project and launched the sales of AppotaLock AS-1 smart lock accessories and AppotaLock AN-1 smart lock.

2020[]

• 04/2020, AppotaHome has officially launched the smart fingerprint lock AM1 to improve customer's asset security.^{[citation needed]}
• 07/2020, OTA Network in cooperation with Facebook Gaming to launch OTA Plus project.^{[citation needed]}
• 10/2020, AppotaPay is officially licensed by the State Bank Vietnam to join the e-wallet market as a payment intermediary.^{[citation needed]}

2021[]

• 01/2021, AppotaPay and South Asia Commercial Joint Stock Bank held the Signing Ceremony of the Bilateral Cooperation Agreement.^{[citation needed]}
• 03/2021, AppotaPay and Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB) held a signing ceremony of the Cooperation Agreement. ^[10]
• 04/2021, OTA Network organized the Vietnam Creators Summit 2021 event with the participation of the top 100 streamer in Vietnam. ^[11]
• 04/2021, Appota awarded the Sao Khue Award in the field of digital transformation with Human Resource Management solution - ACheckin. ^[12]

Products and Services[]

Digital content and online entertainment[]

Gamota[]

Gamota is one of the three main game publishers leading Vietnamese market^[13] with games such as: Tru Tien 3D, Vainglory, Survival Heroes Vietnam, Tieu Ngao Giang Ho Mobile, Ai My Nhan, Tien Nghich.^[14]

Adsota[]

Adsota provides mobile marketing platform.

In 2017, Adsota became the exclusive partner of AppotaX, a mobile ads optimization platform on Google Ad Exchange.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[15]

AppotaPay[]

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

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

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