Not long after DeNA Asia’s managing director Tetsuya Mori left the stage at our Startups in Asia event, we received word from DeNA’s home office back in Tokyo that the company has opened yet another subsidiary in abroad. The new office will be in Vancouver, Canada, and this follows on significant expansion abroad the over the past year.
The new wholly-owned subsidiary will be called DeNA Studios Canada Ltd, and will include design, development and operation support for companies under DeNA’s (TYO:2432) larger umbrella. The initial capital for the subsidairy will be about CDN$600,000 (or US$602,000).
DeNA Studios Canada will be headed up by Irfan Virk, who is the CEO of DeNA subsidiary Gameview Studios [1] in California. He commented on the new expansion:
We are excited to begin operations with the great talent in Vancouver… DeNA anticipates the new studio will meaningfully contribute to augmenting the whole group’s game development and operating capabilities.
Meanwhile, DeNA rival GREE announced a number of partnerships this morning that will help support its upcoming global platform this April.
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