Holly Liu is an American businesswoman and

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. She is the co-founder of the mobile gaming company

Kabam Kabam (formerly Watercooler, Inc.) is an interactive entertainment company founded in 2006 and headquartered in Vancouver, BC. with offices in Montréal, QC, San Francisco, CA and Austin, Texas. The company creates, develops and publishes massive ...

. She is currently Non-Executive Director and Strategic Adviser to

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's board of directors.

Education

She studied at the

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and at the

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Career

Liu is the co-founded mobile gaming company

in 2006; maker of the games: Kingdoms of Camelot, The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth, and

Marvel Contest of Champions ''Marvel Contest of Champions'' is a 2014 fighting video game developed and published by Kabam. It was released on December 10, 2014, for iOS and Android. The fighting game is primarily set in the Marvel Universe. The game is strongly based o ...

. She was lead designer of their flagship game Kingdoms of Camelot, which grossed over $250 million in just four years. Liu was instrumental in growing the company’s annual revenue from zero to $400m. She was also the founding mobile designer for the game extension ''Battle for the North'', which made ''Kingdoms of Camelot'' the highest-grossing app for iPhone and iPad in 2012. In January 2017, the majority of

’s assets were acquired by

Netmarble Netmarble Corp. (Hangul, Korean: 넷마블 주식회사) is a South Korean mobile game developer. It is South Korea's largest mobile-gaming company which was founded in 2000 by Bang Jun-hyuk. Overview Netmarble developed ''Lineage 2 Revolution ...

, South Korea’s largest mobile gaming company. Following her exit from Kabam, Liu took on a role as a visiting partner at

Y Combinator Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Str ...

, an accelerator providing seeded funding to nearly 2,000 startups with a combined value of over $80 billion. In June 2018 she was appointed Non-Executive Director and Strategic Adviser to

's board of directors. She is on the advisory board at

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Recognition

She has been named one of

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’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Gaming”,

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’ “12 Women in Gaming to Watch.” and Forbes - "10 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch from Google Ventures' Portfolio Companies". She was also named by

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as a Top 10 female founder unicorn. In 2018, she received the

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Technology Entrepreneurship Award and she was featured among "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" by

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Holly Living people 21st-century American businesspeople American technology chief executives American technology company founders American venture capitalists American video game designers American video game programmers American video game producers American women chief executives American women company founders American company founders University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Y Combinator people Year of birth missing (living people) Women video game designers 21st-century American businesswomen