Ultra is bringing the blockchain revolution to the gaming industry
and creating a fair ecosystem for the future of games distribution
WHAT IS ULTRA?
Designed to break the market monopoly, Ultra is the next-generation games distribution platform, offering new solutions to both developers and players.
Ultra has a blockchain foundation empowered by our staged software download technology, that has reliably served more than 100 million downloads around the world.
Our blockchain-based functionalities allow for innovative business customizations and offer a whole new set of opportunities bound to become the developers’ gold standard.
FOR PLAYERS
EARN MONEY
Earn Ultra Coins by participating in beta tests and market studies, watching ads, curating games, and more
open platform
Access third party game services directly within Ultra (item-trading, …)
get exclusive games
Play exclusive AAA content only available on Ultra
resell your games
Opportunity to purchase and resell secondhand digital games and virtual items
PLAY IMMEDIATELY
Play games just minutes after purchasing using our staged software downloading technology
bring your friends
Earn Ultra Coins through our 3-level referral program
be part of a community
Experience an innovative and rewarding open community
FOR DEVELOPERS
Earn more
We give you twice as much revenue share as
our competitors
GROW YOUR COMMUNITY
Manage your community with built-in tools including game-specific clubs, forums, newsletters and chats, as if you own the platform.
GET PAID INSTANTLY
Instant sales payouts enable you to re-inject money into your marketing budget unrestricted by the standard 60-day window.
BUILD BETTER GAMES
Receive support from the community through financial incentives for beta tests, bug hunting, feedback, etc
GAME PORTING MADE EASY
Easily port games from platforms such as Steam, Xbox, PlayStation to Ultra with our universal SDK
NEW REVENUE STREAMS
Earn money through in-game advertising, the secondhand market, item-trading and referrals
MARKETING TOOLBOX
Access to powerful innovative marketing
and promotional tools
BETTER DISCOVERABILITY
Players, streamers, bloggers and the media can access relevant content and engage with like-minded communities.
GROWING EXPONENTIALLY
BRING NEW USERS & EARN ULTRA COINS
Influencers, game publishers and players are
incentivized to promote the benefits of joining Ultra
with our referral process. Ultra offers up to 7% of all
revenue generated from purchased content.
For many, this will become a substantial and reliable
income stream.
THE GAME CONSOLE STRATEGY
Players often acquire games consoles to only
play a handful of games such as Zelda or Mario.
Ultra uses this strategy by investing in exclusive
content and reinvesting sales proceeds to ensure
a continuous growth of both our exclusive games
library and user base.
SOLID TECHNOLOGY
FOR A SOLID PROJECT
advertisement
Currently serving 33 billion ads
per day
GAME DISTRIBUTION
Distributed hundreds of millions
of downloads to date
overlay
Already compatible with
5,000+ games
blockchain
Created by leading global
blockchain engineers
PROVEN TECHNOLOGIES
All of our technologies have been built for industry leaders:
Our distribution network has successfully served hundreds of millions of game downloads, totaling countless petabytes of traffic globally, with last mile pipeline acceleration. Our proprietary engine is currently serving billions of advertisements per day and our overlay technology is compatible with well-known games.
THIS TECHNOLOGY IS BEING USED BY MAJOR COMPANIES SUCH AS:
ZeniMax, 343 Industries, Bandai Namco and Adobe.
We are refactoring this proven technology into a concise full spectrum publishing platform, allowing developers to seamlessly transition their games to Ultra and leverage our innovative and powerful technologies.
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ROADMAP
q1 2018
GDC participation leading to major partnerships
q3 2018
Ultra blockchain technology
q3 2018
Ultra closed Beta release
q4 2018
Exclusive games investment
q1 2019
Token generation event
q2 2019
Ultra Open release
q2 2019
First exclusive game released on Ultra
q2 2019
3rd party services tools release
q3 2019
Ultra Go mobile native Beta
TEAM
Ultra is proudly presented by a team of accomplished executives and game industry leaders who have held top positions in prestigious companies including
Executives
David HansonCO-CEO
18 years of experience founding companies and operating as CEO position including Xiaobawang, a 100+ million USD game console project in partnership with AMD and a video game studio later acquired by Kingsoft (founded by Xiaomi’s CEO).
Nicolas GilotCO-CEO
Serial entrepreneur and Strategist, led 100+ million USD game console project as Xiaobawang’s CSO, 1.5x – 3x revenue of multiple game/app projects through his monetization strategy firm (Plants VS Zombie, Highnoon, The Economist, …).
Mike DunnCTO
Accomplished technology executive with senior leadership experience in numerous industries, member of the W3C, former CTO of Dell and Time Warner, Techstars Mentor.
Edward MoalemChief Strategy Officer
Game industry legend, Edward has held position as Senior Director/Manager in both Apple and Google, SVP PR of IGA Worldwide and Double Fusion, he has brokered deals with most of the leading game companies across North America, Europe and Asia.
Julien MarronCFO
Game industry Finance expert with complementary skills in Taxes, contracts & royalties management, subsidies and HR. Former CFO of Wargaming North America and Europe, International Cost Controller of Ubisoft, Royalties Manager of EMI.
Chris SaadActing Head of Product
Serial Entrepreneur. Strategic Adviser. Former Head of Product @ Uber. Co-author of APML, Co-founder of the DataPortability Project. Formerly Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Echo.
Cristian RizeaProject Manager
Seasoned game producers with 25+ games produced at Ubisoft, Microsoft, Bandai Namco including Age of Empires 3, Settlers Online, Blazing Angels serie; CTO of Smartree
Bertrand TheaudLegal, regulatory & fundraising counsel
Blockchain Enthusiast and serial entrepreneur, founder of coinlaw.io, former Private Equity Fund Managing Partner at Edmond de Rothschild
Advisors
Ritche CorpusLead Content Advisor
AMD’s Head of Worldwide Content & Senior Director of SW Alliances, Industry veteran and executive currently managing a worldwide cross-functional team responsible for evangelizing technology, content acquisition, business development, alliance management.
Allen FooChina Market Advisor
Founder of 2 Chinese Tech funds (UCCVR), former Country Manager China of Unity3D and Director at Microsoft, Allen drove consistent growth through development of Chinese specific Go To Market strategies for substantial sales turnover businesses.
Alexandre MironescoInvestment banking & IPO Advisor
Seasoned investment banker, Alexandre was among other executive position the Managing Director of Santander, he has a deep experience in market optimisation and currently manages a 300m€ institutional fund to help mid-cap companies grow to IPO.
Operation
Head of Ad PlatformYogendra Kumar Dixit
Senior Director Developer RelationsMelissa Brown
Product ManagerPeter Salinas
Lead Blockchain DeveloperBeibei Du
Lead Frontend DeveloperMikhael Gerbet
Lead Backend DeveloperHugo Loos
Lead DesignerYves Sepulchre
Lead UI DesignerOlivier Cornet
Lead UX DesignerLaurent Herbet
Blockchain DeveloperTrevor Wessel
Senior Backend DeveloperKoffi Bikor
Crypto StrategistRobin Davids
Executive AdminReb Astle
designerDamien Sujkowski
designerThéo Le Goff
designerTimothée Goguely
DesignerNils Renault
DesignerThéodore Sutra Fourcade
Lead Community ManagerEmmanuel Gimenez
Community ManagerFrancesco Baccetti
Community ManagerAnthony Papavassiliou
Partners
Stay tuned, we have more exciting partnerships to announce!
PRESS
“Ultra, a startup founded by game industry veterans, plans to disrupt PC game distribution with blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies.”
“An Estonian Startup Is Undercutting Billion-Dollar Gaming Stores – Founded in 2017 and staffed by former gaming executives, Ultra plans to use blockchain technology to process payments and offer tokens to gamers who use its platform”
“Leading companies in the gaming and blockchain space have come together to form the , a coalition that will advocate for blockchain development within the gaming industry”
“Nicolas Gilot, co-CEO of Ultra, a PC game publishing platform built on the blockchain, told Bitcoin Magazine the alliance will “democratize blockchain within the gaming industry.””
“Exclusive Interview – Edward Moalem has provided us information on how they are creating an unbiased ecosystem by implementing this into their game publishing platform, ULTRA.”
“Ultra.io has a vision to disrupt the game distribution market. Blockchain technology brings several interesting paradigms that can address some of the challenges we’ve seen so far in platforms like Steam”
Contact
Offices
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