About Visiware

Visiware is an interactive studio based in France, whose 80 experts provide gaming and technology solutions in the following areas:

LeStudio
Create, design and develop custom tailored third party User Interfaces for digital television ans set-top boses, as well as TV apllications for TV providers and content companies( for satellite, cable, IPTV, OTT, connected TV, et...).

Playin'TV
Expert in casual gaming, Visiware also operates the internationally leading interactive pay-TV game channel playin'TV and is the partner and games supplier of most of the world largest digital TV providers.

Play Along
This new and unique platform allows TV producers and channels to launch next gen social games and interactions based on synchronised with major TV game-shows. Millions of TV viewers can simultaneously participate during a TV show via the web, their Iphone , Ipad or even through Facebook. In the first 6 months, over 200 shows have been run in 6 countries.

PlayinStar - Visiware 's turnkey social games platform on the web.
Leading portals generate new revenue streams with this white label multiplayer game service.

Visiware’s leaders, complementarity and efficiency

Laurant Weill is the founder and executive Chairman of Visiware. After studying Biochemistry and Computer Science, this interactivity specialist and serial entrepreneur founded 5 video game and web companies.

In 1995 he founded Visiware, one of the very first iTV company, and currently the world leader in interactive TV games.

In 2010 Visiware launched "Le Studio": a new generation design and development house, and PlayinStar: a social B2B skill gaming platform for the web and soon IPTV & cable.

In 2011 Visiware launched "PlayAlong": a unique massive multi-players dual screen international platform, already deployed in 7 countries with 200 shows produced in 6 months.

Laurant was President for 3 years of AFDESI, the international Interactive TV association.

Laurant have 2 kids, is a farmer, love flying, new and disruptive ideas.

Colas, 43 years old, Swiss, French and German citizen, CEO, works with Laurant and the Visiware team on a new development phase and growth for the firm.

He brings along a long experience in Digital TV, in particular in the management of new businesses at the convergence between content and technology. After several years in strategy consulting in France and in the United States, he held several management positions in the TF1 Group (Worldwide Sales Director of Eurosport, VP of International Activities at TF1, co-founder e-TF1). He then became CEO of Lysis (Lausanne, Switzerland), one of the most successful international providers of open software technology for digital television. He was then appointed to Executive VP of NASDAQ-listed SCM Microsystems, world leader in smartcard readers, where he managed SCM’s Digital TV business.

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Key Milestones

1994 : Creation of Visiware.
1998 : Testing of a new interactive games channel on France Telecom's cable network in Bordeaux.
2000 : Launch in France the 1st interactive game channel for the family, LudiTV (later renamed Playin'TV).
2001 : Launch of Playin'TV in the USA.
2002 : Creation of a joint venture with the group Fox Kids Europe and launch of the interactive game channel for kids, Fox Kids Play.
2003 : Launch the interactive game channel, Playin'Star (Playin'Casino in certain countries)
2004 : Visiware is given the award for "Best Developer" and "Best game and entertainment program" (AFDESI International interactive TV Awards) and assures its position as a worldwide leader in Interactive TV Games.
2005 : Visiware launches 2 new channels, MiniKids TV and Sensual TV as well as the new mosaic portal on Playin'TV. Visiware is given the « best technology » award (AFDESI International interactive TV Awards) and launches the 1st interactive game channel on a major US cable operator (Time Warner Cable).
2006 : Launch of Playin'TV Mobile, Club Playin'TV, Internet flash portal and the Triple Play offer. Visiware factory is now launching its games on 550 devices (300 mobiles + 250 TV + internet) plus the back office to support it all.
2010 : Visiware launches "Le Studio": a new generation design and development house, and PlayinStar: a social B2B skill gaming platform for the web and soon IPTV & cable.
2011 : Visiware launches "PlayAlong": a unique massive multi-player dual screen international platform, already deployed in 7 countries with 200 shows produced in 6 months.

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