POPpack’s Machine Vision Software Offers a Pay Per View Advertising Model On Wearable Displays
PASADENA, June 30th – Cali Group announced today that its subsidiary, CaliBurger, will begin marketing campaigns in July using POPpacks, the first “mobile advertising” platform based on machine vision. The campaigns will take place around CaliBurger’s restaurants in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Maryland. Through POPpack’s automated marketplace, CaliBurger will deliver customized messages to digital displays integrated into backpacks worn by Millennials and Centennials walking within hundreds of yards of CaliBurger’s locations. POPpack’s proprietary machine vision system (leveraging the camera on the display) offers brands like CaliBurger the ability to pay based on the number of people that see the messages. Similar to Uber, as shown in the video, “walkers” can earn income through the mobile App.
“Our mission at Cali Group is to use new technologies to transform the restaurant and retail industries and aggregate data about the offline world,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “Cali Group invested in POPpacks to enable restaurants, retailers, and brands to have personal brand ambassadors deliver messages in places that have been traditionally inaccessible.” The initial launch of the platform allows walkers to buy a custom POPpacks backpack, insert their iPad, and download the POPpacks app to begin making money. As featured on Episode 2 of Apple’s new TV show, Planet of the Apps, POPpacks is also developing its own flexible display hardware integrated into backpacks that is low cost, daylight readable, shatterproof, and can last for months without needing to be charged. In addition to POPpacks, Cali Group also has significant ownership positions in Super League Gaming, FunWall, and Miso Robotics.
ABOUT CALI GROUP Cali Group is a holding company that comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering software systems for restaurant and retail operators to drive revenue, lower costs, collect data, and improve operations. Cali Group uses its CaliBurger restaurant chain to demonstrate proof of concept and lead the commercial adoption of the software products developed by its sister companies.
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Over $28M of Capital Raised Into Cali Group’s E-Sports Spin Out, Including Follow
On Investment By Cali Group
June 29, 2017 – Cali Group announced today that Super League Gaming (“SLG”), the e-sports platform for every day gamers, has received $15 million in Series C funding from Nickelodeon (a division of Viacom), DMG Entertainment, a SoftBank managed fund, Toba Capital, premier e- sports entity aXiomatic, and various professional sports owners. Cali Group also invested in the financing to increase its ownership position in Super League and become the largest
shareholder. The press release describing the SLG financing is at https://goo.gl/DfJfjA. Earlier in the week, SLG and DMG Entertainment announced a strategic partnership to take the Super League platform to a global audience, including launching the brand in various cities in China. The press release can be viewed at https://goo.gl/g8d6hj.
Super League was spun out of Cali Group in 2014 to bring gamers of all ages from around the world together for recreational and competitive gaming, content creation and sharing, and social networking. Super League has pioneered city teams in e-sports and established movie theaters as the ultimate arenas to experience some of the world’s most popular e-sports games in a new and social context. SLG has raised approximately $28M million in funding since 2014. Earlier investors include Cinemark, ET Capital, and Quadrant.
“Cali Group’s family of companies are focused on creating new technologies to transform the restaurant and retail industries,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “We use our growing CaliBurger restaurant chain to demonstrate how technology platforms (such as social gaming, internet of things, machine vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics) can be used in the offline world, and then capitalize companies to build businesses around these proven
concepts. Offline commerce still represents 90% of the economy, and our collective goal at Cali Group is to aggregate offline data and link it to the online world.”
Cali Group also has significant ownership positions in FunWall, POPpacks, and Miso Robotics.
ABOUT CALI GROUP
Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering restaurant and retail operating systems that include software for: managing interactive gaming (online and offline); programming wearable digital signage; automated processes related to ordering and cooking; intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods; real time detection of operating errors and pathogens; and facial recognition systems for loyalty and payment verification.
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Over $28M of Capital Raised Into Cali Group’s E-Sports Spin Out, Including Follow On Investment By Cali Group
June 29, 2017 – Cali Group announced today that Super League Gaming (“SLG”), the e-sports platform for every day gamers, has received $15 million in Series C funding from Nickelodeon (a division of Viacom), DMG Entertainment, a SoftBank managed fund, Toba Capital, premier esports entity aXiomatic, and various professional sports owners. Cali Group also invested in the financing to increase its ownership position in Super League and become the largest shareholder. The press release describing the SLG financing is at https://goo.gl/DfJfjA. Earlier in the week, SLG and DMG Entertainment announced a strategic partnership to take the Super League platform to a global audience, including launching the brand in various cities in China. The press release can be viewed at https://goo.gl/g8d6hj.
Super League was spun out of Cali Group in 2014 to bring gamers of all ages from around the world together for recreational and competitive gaming, content creation and sharing, and social networking. Super League has pioneered city teams in e-sports and established movie theaters as the ultimate arenas to experience some of the world’s most popular e-sports games in a new and social context. SLG has raised approximately $28M million in funding since 2014. Earlier investors include Cinemark, ET Capital, and Quadrant.
“Cali Group’s family of companies are focused on creating new technologies to transform the restaurant and retail industries,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “We use our growing CaliBurger restaurant chain to demonstrate how technology platforms (such as social gaming, internet of things, machine vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics) can be used in the offline world, and then capitalize companies to build businesses around these proven concepts. Offline commerce still represents 90% of the economy, and our collective goal at Cali Group is to aggregate offline data and link it to the online world.”
Cali Group also has significant ownership positions in FunWall, POPpacks, and Miso Robotics.
ABOUT CALI GRO UP Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering restaurant and retail operating systems that include software for: managing interactive gaming (online and offline); programming wearable digital signage; automated processes related to ordering and cooking; intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods; real time detection of operating errors and pathogens; and facial recognition systems for loyalty and payment verification.
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May 18, 2017 – Cali Group announced today that it’s wholly owned subsidiary, CaliBurger, has entered an alliance agreement with a newly formed company backed by private equity firms to relaunch the CaliBurger brand throughout Asia Pacific. Cali APA Limited will be led by Martin Lorenzo, an experienced restaurant operator and investor in Asia. Lorenzo has served as regional franchisee for brands such as Del Monte and Pepsi Cola and has also built his own restaurant brands into massive international chains. Cali APA Limited is also backed by private equity group,
Abuna.
“With CaliBurger’s increasing focus on growth in North America and it’s lead in restaurant technology innovation through its affiliated Cali Group companies, we needed a strong regional partner to manage and build the brand in Asia,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “Martin and his team are the smartest restaurant investors and operators in the region. We look forward to working with them to change the restaurant industry in Asia with our concept and related software systems.”
“CaliBurger is the future of QSR,” said Martin Lorenzo. “The technologies that CaliBurger has been deploying in its North America stores – ranging from FunWall gaming to robotic systems to loyalty program based on facial recognition – will allow us to build a premium burger brand in Asia that is highly differentiated from all others.”
CaliBurger currently has outlets in Greater China, Malaysia, and Philippines. Cali APA
Limited will initially focus on building a new model CaliBurger unit in Southeast Asia that incorporates the most recent designs and systems from North America as well as a new menu with additional localization. Cali APA Limited will build a pilot outlet and training center for the region and will start franchising the brand to qualified franchise partners throughout Asia and Australia later this year.
ABOUT CALIBURGER
CaliBurger is a 21st century classic California burger joint. Our founders are California-bred with global ambitions, bringing the best of California culture, technology, imagery and food to markets that have long craved the famous California style burger. CaliBurger provides a premium quality burger experience at an accessible QSR price
point. CaliBurger now operates in 12 countries. CaliBurger’s products feature the highest quality beef, top-grade chicken, hand-selected vegetables, zero trans-fat oils, sauces made in house, and hand-mixed shakes. Our made-to- order meals are always prepared in open kitchens, and our restaurants incorporate advanced technologies to create a unique dining experience. CaliBurger customers can enjoy a taste of California in an environment that looks, smells, and feels like California. For more information, please visit www.caliburger.com.
ABOUT CALI GROUP
Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering restaurant and retail operating systems that include software for: managing interactive gaming (online and offline); programming wearable digital signage to drive local foot traffic; automated processes related to ordering and cooking; intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods; real time detection of operating errors and pathogens; and facial recognition systems for loyalty and payment verification.
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California-style, Better Burgers Coming Soon To Latin America!
May 5, 2017 – Cali Group announced today that its subsidiary, CaliBurger, has entered an agreement with its existing master franchisee in Mexico to expand the brand throughout Latin America. The regional brand will be managed by a newly formed entity backed by private equity investors, called Cali-LatAm.
“With the growing awareness of the CaliBurger brand and Cali Group restaurant technology innovations in the global restaurant community, we have experienced tremendous interest from restaurant operators in different parts of Latin America,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “While we focus on building new company owned stores in the USA, our partner in Mexico has the infrastructure, training stores, and operating team to support restaurant operators interested in developing CaliBurger units in countries throughout the region. We look forward to working with Cali-LatAm to enhance the restaurant industry in Latin America with our restaurant operating system.”
“We are excited to bring CaliBurger’s premium, Cali-style, better burger to Mexico and to the rest of Latin America,” said Brian Pierce, Partner, Cali-LatAm. “We are passionate about CaliBurger’s superior products, service, and technology, and we’re certain that the CaliBurger brand will be well- received by our guests in Latin America. We look forward to opening CaliBurger restaurants and working diligently to make it a top dining destination.”
In growing the brand beyond Mexico and into Central and South America, Cali-LatAm will seek to form strategic partnerships with best-in-class, multi-unit franchisee candidates to capitalize on CaliBurger’s attractive value proposition. “CaliBurger’s incorporation of the technology platforms developed by its sister companies makes the CaliBurger experience ten times different from any other QSR chain,” said Luis Vidal, Partner, Cali-LatAm. “We expect FunWall, Flippy, the digital loyalty program, and future Cali Group innovations to captivate customers in Latin America seeking the best premium burgers as well as new experiences in dining.” For more information about CaliBurger franchise opportunities in Latin America, please visit www.caliburgermx.com.
ABOUT CALIBURGER
CaliBurger is a 21st century revival of the classic California burger joint. Our founders are California-bred with global ambitions, bringing the best of California culture, technology, imagery and food to markets that have long craved the famous California style burger. CaliBurger provides a premium quality burger experience at an accessible QSR price point. CaliBurger now operates in 12 countries. CaliBurger’s products feature the highest quality beef, buns baked fresh, top-grade chicken, hand-selected vegetables, zero trans-fat oils, sauces made in house, and hand-mixed
shakes. Our made-to-order meals are always prepared in open kitchens, and our restaurants incorporate advanced technologies to create a unique dining experience. CaliBurger customers can enjoy a taste of California in an environment that looks, smells, and feels like California. For more information, please visit www.caliburger.com.
ABOUT CALI GROUP
Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering restaurant and retail operating systems that include software for: managing interactive gaming (online and offline); programming wearable digital signage to drive local foot traffic; automated processes related to ordering and cooking; intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods; real time detection of operating errors and pathogens; and facial recognition systems for loyalty and payment verification.
ABOUT CALIMEX AND CALI-LATAM
Based in the U.S. and in Mexico, CaliMex and Cali-LatAm were born to shepherd the growth of business into new and emerging markets. Our partnership encompasses over a century of restaurant and foodservice industry experience at a global scale. CaliMex and Cali-LatAm are the exclusive master franchisees for CaliBurger in Mexico, Central America, and South America. For more information, please visit www.caliburgermx.com, or contact us
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NEW YORK, March 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — FunWall, a one stop solution for social and tournament gaming and Revel Systems, a feature-rich business platform transforming the way business is done by integrating all operations and customer channels, driven by the Point of Sale, into a single dashboard, today launched a joint program to begin selling FunWall’s platform to existing and future users of Revel’s POS platform. The partnership follows the successful deployment of FunWall’s proprietary social gaming platform at all of Revel client CaliBurger’s restaurants worldwide over the last twelve months.
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FunWall enables restaurants, bars, and other retailers to better entertain their guests and increase loyalty and foot traffic. Additionally, for the first time, FunWall allows restaurant and bar owners to generate revenue outside the four walls of their establishments. Customers that download certain mobile games in the establishment continue to play outside of the establishment, and in-app purchases outside of the establishment are shared with infrastructure owners.
“In 2017, in-app purchases in mobile games will top $37 billion of revenue for the mobile gaming industry,” said Steve Ridley, CEO of FunWall. “Through our partnership with Revel, we allow infrastructure owners to use displays on their walls to entertain their guests with games of their choice while also making incremental income.”
Under the terms of the partnership, Revel will offer access to the FunWall library of mobile games to its customer base. FunWall is fully integrated with the Revel loyalty program, allowing customers to earn loyalty points or prizes, all redeemable at the POS only by playing the games.
“FunWall has had an immediate impact on CaliBurger’s business,” said John Miller, Chairman of Cali Group, which owns CaliBurger and positions in various technology companies in the restaurant and retail industries.
“As a leader in innovative technology that improves the customer experience for the restaurant and bar industry, we are pleased to offer the world’s first comprehensive social gaming platform to our rapidly growing client base,” said Scott Betts, CEO of Revel. “We look forward to working with FunWall to enable success for our clients by implementing technology allowing them to engage and understand their customers.”
About Revel Systems
Revel Systems, founded in 2010 in San Francisco, is a feature-rich business platform transforming the way business is done by integrating all operations and customer channels, driven by the Point of Sale, into a single dashboard. Designed to maximize security, stability, ease of use, and service delivery, Revel’s ecosystem replaces bulky, expensive legacy solutions with a quick, intuitive iOS-based POS platform that combines cloud-based technology and the mobility of the iPad. We work with all businesses—from small merchants to global enterprises—looking to modernize, future-proof their operations, and implement a system that adds value through incremental revenue, cost reduction, and a better experience for customers and employees. For more information on the next generation Point of Sale platform, please visit http://revelsystems.com/
About FunWall
FunWall is the one stop solution for social and tournament gaming. FunWall revolutionizes social gaming by giving everyone the power to play the games they love, as a social event, anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Leveraging in-venue screens and remote mobile gameplay in the cloud, FunWall deepens customer engagement for venue owners and broadens distribution for game developers. This adds immense value to the consumer experience, by making downtime fun and interactive, encouraging loyalty enrollment and incentivizing increased repeat visits. Visit www.funwallgaming.com
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Flippy is First in a Series of Adaptive Robots That Will Create Smarter, Safer and More Efficient Commercial Kitchens
PASADENA, Calif., March 7, 2017 – Miso Robotics and Cali Group today unveiled Flippy, an artificial intelligence-driven robot that will work alongside kitchen staff to grill burgers at CaliBurger restaurants. Flippy had its debut at the CaliBurger location in Pasadena, California. A video demonstration captured the robotic kitchen assistant flipping burgers and placing them on buns. Flippy will roll out in early 2018 and expand to more than 50 CaliBurger restaurants worldwide by the end of 2019.
Miso Robotics is pioneering the use of computer vision and deep learning software to bring low- cost, adaptable robotics into restaurants. The company’s collaborative kitchen assistant handles the hazardous, tedious and time-sensitive aspects of grilling and cooks burgers to perfection every time. It easily integrates into CaliBurger’s current kitchen layout without needing to reconfigure existing equipment.
While artificial intelligence is being successfully tested and employed to drive cars, manage the home and message with customers, Miso Robotics is the first company to bring robotics and AI into the kitchen in a meaningful way.
“Much like self-driving vehicles, our system continuously learns from its experiences to improve over time,” said David Zito, CEO of Miso Robotics. “Though we are starting with the relatively ‘simple’ task of cooking burgers, our proprietary AI software allows our kitchen assistants to be adaptable and therefore can be trained to help with almost any dull, dirty or dangerous task in a commercial kitchen — whether it’s frying chicken, cutting vegetables or final plating.”
According to the National Association of Restaurants, consumers are spending more on food outside the home than ever before. Yet despite rapid growth, the restaurant industry is plagued with inefficiencies. In 2016, turnover of restaurant workers reached an all time high at 113%.
“The application of artificial intelligence to robotic systems that work next to our employees in CaliBurger restaurants will allow us to make food faster, safer and with fewer errors,” said John Miller, Chairman of Cali Group. “Our investment in Miso Robotics is part of our broader vision for creating a unified operating system that will control all aspects of a restaurant from in-store interactive gaming entertainment to automated ordering and cooking processes, ‘intelligent’ food delivery and real-time detection of operating errors and pathogens.”
The integration of Miso Robotics into CaliBurger’s kitchens will allow the chain to redeploy some of its staff to the dining room to engage more with customers. CaliBurger will also collaborate with Miso Robotics to retrain certain staff to operate Flippy.
About Miso Robotics
Miso Robotics is revolutionizing the restaurant and prepared food industries with innovative robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Leveraging recent advances in AI and declining prices for industrial robotic arms, Miso’s robotic kitchen assistants enable restaurants to cost-effectively automate a wide range of tasks — from prep work to cooking to final assembly. Founded with a mission “to use technology to empower chefs to make food perfectly and consistently, at prices anyone can afford,” Miso enables restaurants to increase labor productivity, reduce costs and drive profitability, while improving food quality, consistency and safety.
Miso’s products are rigorously engineered to operate in commercial kitchens — they use customers’ existing equipment, are readily integrated and can work side-by-side with kitchen staff. Miso is led by David Zito, a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur. The company has launched with two initial customers, CaliBurger and Culinary On- Demand, and employs a respected team of roboticists, engineers and industrial designers from Caltech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Art Center and UNC Chapel Hill.
About Cali Group
Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering the “restaurant operating system” (ROS) that includes software for managing interactive in-store entertainment, automated processes for ordering and cooking, intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods and real time detection of operating errors and pathogens.
About CaliBurger
CaliBurger is a 21st century revival of the classic California burger joint. Our founders are California-bred with global ambitions, bringing the best of California culture, technology, imagery and food to markets that have long craved the famous California-style burger. CaliBurger provides a premium quality burger experience at an accessible QSR price point. CaliBurger now operates in 12 countries. CaliBurger’s products feature the highest quality beef, buns baked fresh, top-grade chicken, hand-selected vegetables, zero trans-fat oils, sauces made in house and hand-mixed shakes. Our made-to-order meals are always prepared in open kitchens, and our restaurants incorporate advanced technologies to create a unique dining experience. CaliBurger customers can enjoy a taste of California in an environment that looks, smells and feels like California. For more information, please visit www.caliburger.com.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Enplug and FunWall today announced a partnership to bring FunWall’s proprietary mobile social gaming platform to Enplug’s class leading digital display technology. This partnership will instantly give Enplug’s network the ability to participate in multiplayer tournaments with other gamers in any public location. To participate, the only thing the consumer needs to bring is their mobile phone.
Enplug
Enplug’s next generation digital displays are in popular social venues including restaurants, bars, gyms, retail stores, cafes, shopping malls, and office buildings, transforming today’s digital displays from one-way communication channels to intelligent, two-way communication platforms.
Enplug will be the first distributed digital display network able to offer social mobile gaming at every one of their managed locations.
“Enplug is always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with digital displays in public spaces. We’re excited about FunWall’s proven capabilities of bringing audience engagement to the next level,” said Nanxi Liu, CEO of Enplug.
The unique FunWall platform takes the buzz around eSports and places it at everyone’s fingertips whenever and wherever they are. FunWall is the only way to turn your favorite mobile game into anything from a “one on one” challenge to “playing the entire world” in a global tournament.
The ability to harness the ubiquity of mobile games provides social infrastructure owners (retailers, bars, restaurants, QSR’s, malls and stadiums) with a radically new and powerful tool to influence both short-term behavior and to build long-term relationship with its consumers. Social mobile games provide the perfect vehicle to engage, entertain, capture and incentivize an audience.
The FunWall platform also provides a vital link between cloud and place based gaming. Using the power of “place” to fill the cloud – then using the power of the “cloud” to populate the place.
“FunWall makes that vital audience connection by combining fun and incentive into the same experience. We identified Enplug to launch because of its ease of use and future-thinking product,” said Steve Ridley, CEO of FunWall. Ridley was a founder and Global CEO of Kinetic Worldwide, the largest media company of its kind in the world.
FunWall’s unique platform will feature in the Enplug app store, making social mobile gaming at any location just a click away.
This unique partnership builds on the Enplug and FunWall ability to transform the traditional one way push communication of digital displays into a dynamic positive two-way conversation with the consumer.
ABOUT ENPLUG
Enplug is the #1 open digital displays software for businesses, transforming any TV or display into a realtime marketing tool. Enplug customers include global brands like YouTube, HP, WeWork, Marriott, Porsche and Warner Brothers. Enplug is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. For more information, visit www.enplug.com
ABOUT FUNWALL
FunWall is the one stop solution for social and tournament gaming. FunWall revolutionizes social gaming by giving everyone the power to play the games they love, as a social event, anywhere – anytime. FunWall also provides a pervasive, technologically transparent social gaming platform to all types of infrastructure owners. This adds immense value to the consumer experience, by making dwell time fun and interactive, encouraging loyalty enrollment and incentivizing increased repeat visits. www.funwallgaming.com
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SLG Growth Demonstrates Unique Model For Disrupting Retail With New Technologies
October 26, 2016 – CaliBurgerTM announced today that Super League Gaming, which was spun out of CaliBurger in 2014, has issued a press release regarding its Series C financing and growth,
at http://finance.yahoo.com/news/super-league-gaming-clinches-5-130000797.html.
“CaliBurger is a technology company that sells great cheeseburgers worldwide,” said John Miller, Chairman of CaliBurger. “Our strategy has been to develop new technology platforms that can impact the guest experience or our restaurant operations, demonstrate those technologies in our restaurants, and then spin out new companies that can attract venture capital funding to deploy the offerings in the broader retail sector. In the case of Super League, we were building an in-restaurant social gaming experience (based on the blockbuster game Minecraft) for our younger guests to enjoy.”
CaliBurger has meaningful ownership positions in three other venture backed companies (FunWall, Pop-i, and Miso Robotics) and is continuing development of new technologies for use in its restaurants, including: land-based drones for food delivery in certain markets; and machine vision coupled with deep learning and data analytics for real time monitoring of restaurant operations.
ABOUT CALIBURGER
CaliBurger is a 21st century revival of the classic California burger joint. Our founders are California-bred with global ambitions, bringing the best of California culture, technology, imagery and food to markets that have long craved the famous California style burger. CaliBurger provides a premium quality burger experience at an accessible QSR price point. CaliBurger now operates in 12 countries. CaliBurger’s products feature the highest quality beef, buns baked fresh, top-grade chicken, hand-selected vegetables, zero trans-fat oils, sauces made in house, and hand-mixed
shakes. Our made-to-order meals are always prepared in open kitchens, and our restaurants incorporate advanced technologies to create a unique dining experience. CaliBurger customers can enjoy a taste of California in an environment that looks, smells, and feels like California. For more information, please visit www.caliburger.com.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Super League Gaming, the Santa Monica-based company that gives gamers the opportunity to enjoy the games they love on big screens in movie theaters across the country, today announced that it has received $5 million in funding from Toba Capital and aXiomatic, a premier eSports entity backed by professional sports and media leaders. Super League Gaming previously received investments from a SoftBank-managed fund, Cinemark USA, Inc., and Quadrant Management.
“Inspired by the world’s biggest eSports events, Super League Gaming’s mission is to make those experiences accessible to everyone who is passionate about their favorite games, strong-yet-supportive competition, and sense of community,” said Ann Hand, CEO Super League Gaming. “This most recent investment from Toba Capital and aXiomatic, an eSports ownership group led by Peter Guber and Ted Leonsis, accelerates our ability to bring big screen gaming to more fans and further substantiates the notion that the eSports phenomenon is here to stay.”
Founded in 2014 by parents looking for a way their children could enjoy video games like Minecraft in a social, face-to-face gameplay experience, Super League Gaming established itself through successful league seasons held in movie theaters all over North America. To date, Super League Gaming has hosted more than 9,000 kids in friendly competition in five league seasons of play.
“eSports are well on their way to becoming bigger than traditional sports. It takes a rare company like Super League Gaming, with great technology and a brilliant team led by CEO Ann Hand, to join the very short list of leaders in this space,” said Vinny Smith, Founder Toba Capital. “We are incredibly excited to partner with the company on this journey.”
Toba Capital is a venture firm that backs entrepreneurs building transformative businesses, both as an investor and as an ongoing operational partner. The firm was founded by Vinny Smith, the founder of Patrol Software and Quest Software.
Super League Gaming’s 5th Season Underway at a Theater Near You Metropolis Madness is Super League’s current competitive Minecraft league series, being played in more than 50 theaters in 30 markets around the U.S. and Canada. The four-week league challenges 6-16 year-old players’ creativity, critical thinking and teamwork for the chance to win a $15,000 scholarship. Please visit https://superleague.com/league for more information.
In the coming weeks, the company plans to announce new programs designed around the world’s most competitive game. For more information about Super League Gaming, please visit www.superleague.com.
About Super League Gaming Super League Gaming (www.SuperLeague.com) is the world’s first and biggest interactive video game league that takes place in movie theaters worldwide. Bringing gamers of all ages together for a social, face-to-face gameplay experience on the big screen, Super League is establishing theater auditoriums as the ultimate place to play some of the world’s most popular games and compete to climb the international Super League leaderboards. The phenomenon started in Santa Monica, Calif. in the summer of 2015 and now with Super League Gaming in its fifth season of Minecraft competition, it is only just getting started.
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CALI GROUP TO DEMONSTRATE ITS “MOBILE ADVERTISING” PLATFORM TO MARKET CALIBURGER BRAND AND DRIVE STORE SALES
POPpack’s Machine Vision Software Offers a Pay Per View Advertising Model On Wearable Displays
PASADENA, June 30th – Cali Group announced today that its subsidiary, CaliBurger, will begin marketing campaigns in July using POPpacks, the first “mobile advertising” platform based on machine vision. The campaigns will take place around CaliBurger’s restaurants in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Maryland. Through POPpack’s automated marketplace, CaliBurger will deliver customized messages to digital displays integrated into backpacks worn by Millennials and Centennials walking within hundreds of yards of CaliBurger’s locations. POPpack’s proprietary machine vision system (leveraging the camera on the display) offers brands like CaliBurger the ability to pay based on the number of people that see the messages. Similar to Uber, as shown in the video, “walkers” can earn income through the mobile App.
“Our mission at Cali Group is to use new technologies to transform the restaurant and retail industries and aggregate data about the offline world,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “Cali Group invested in POPpacks to enable restaurants, retailers, and brands to have personal brand ambassadors deliver messages in places that have been traditionally inaccessible.” The initial launch of the platform allows walkers to buy a custom POPpacks backpack, insert their iPad, and download the POPpacks app to begin making money. As featured on Episode 2 of Apple’s new TV show, Planet of the Apps, POPpacks is also developing its own flexible display hardware integrated into backpacks that is low cost, daylight readable, shatterproof, and can last for months without needing to be charged. In addition to POPpacks, Cali Group also has significant ownership positions in Super League Gaming, FunWall, and Miso Robotics.
ABOUT CALI GROUP Cali Group is a holding company that comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering software systems for restaurant and retail operators to drive revenue, lower costs, collect data, and improve operations. Cali Group uses its CaliBurger restaurant chain to demonstrate proof of concept and lead the commercial adoption of the software products developed by its sister companies.
CALI GROUP ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL FINANCING FOR SUPER LEAGUE GAMING
Over $28M of Capital Raised Into Cali Group’s E-Sports Spin Out, Including Follow
On Investment By Cali Group
June 29, 2017 – Cali Group announced today that Super League Gaming (“SLG”), the e-sports platform for every day gamers, has received $15 million in Series C funding from Nickelodeon (a division of Viacom), DMG Entertainment, a SoftBank managed fund, Toba Capital, premier e- sports entity aXiomatic, and various professional sports owners. Cali Group also invested in the financing to increase its ownership position in Super League and become the largest
shareholder. The press release describing the SLG financing is at https://goo.gl/DfJfjA. Earlier in the week, SLG and DMG Entertainment announced a strategic partnership to take the Super League platform to a global audience, including launching the brand in various cities in China. The press release can be viewed at https://goo.gl/g8d6hj.
Super League was spun out of Cali Group in 2014 to bring gamers of all ages from around the world together for recreational and competitive gaming, content creation and sharing, and social networking. Super League has pioneered city teams in e-sports and established movie theaters as the ultimate arenas to experience some of the world’s most popular e-sports games in a new and social context. SLG has raised approximately $28M million in funding since 2014. Earlier investors include Cinemark, ET Capital, and Quadrant.
“Cali Group’s family of companies are focused on creating new technologies to transform the restaurant and retail industries,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “We use our growing CaliBurger restaurant chain to demonstrate how technology platforms (such as social gaming, internet of things, machine vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics) can be used in the offline world, and then capitalize companies to build businesses around these proven
concepts. Offline commerce still represents 90% of the economy, and our collective goal at Cali Group is to aggregate offline data and link it to the online world.”
Cali Group also has significant ownership positions in FunWall, POPpacks, and Miso Robotics.
ABOUT CALI GROUP
Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering restaurant and retail operating systems that include software for: managing interactive gaming (online and offline); programming wearable digital signage; automated processes related to ordering and cooking; intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods; real time detection of operating errors and pathogens; and facial recognition systems for loyalty and payment verification.
CALI GROUP ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL FINANCING FOR SUPER LEAGUE GAMING
Over $28M of Capital Raised Into Cali Group’s E-Sports Spin Out, Including Follow On Investment By Cali Group
June 29, 2017 – Cali Group announced today that Super League Gaming (“SLG”), the e-sports platform for every day gamers, has received $15 million in Series C funding from Nickelodeon (a division of Viacom), DMG Entertainment, a SoftBank managed fund, Toba Capital, premier esports entity aXiomatic, and various professional sports owners. Cali Group also invested in the financing to increase its ownership position in Super League and become the largest shareholder. The press release describing the SLG financing is at https://goo.gl/DfJfjA. Earlier in the week, SLG and DMG Entertainment announced a strategic partnership to take the Super League platform to a global audience, including launching the brand in various cities in China. The press release can be viewed at https://goo.gl/g8d6hj.
Super League was spun out of Cali Group in 2014 to bring gamers of all ages from around the world together for recreational and competitive gaming, content creation and sharing, and social networking. Super League has pioneered city teams in e-sports and established movie theaters as the ultimate arenas to experience some of the world’s most popular e-sports games in a new and social context. SLG has raised approximately $28M million in funding since 2014. Earlier investors include Cinemark, ET Capital, and Quadrant.
“Cali Group’s family of companies are focused on creating new technologies to transform the restaurant and retail industries,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “We use our growing CaliBurger restaurant chain to demonstrate how technology platforms (such as social gaming, internet of things, machine vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics) can be used in the offline world, and then capitalize companies to build businesses around these proven concepts. Offline commerce still represents 90% of the economy, and our collective goal at Cali Group is to aggregate offline data and link it to the online world.”
Cali Group also has significant ownership positions in FunWall, POPpacks, and Miso Robotics.
ABOUT CALI GRO UP Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering restaurant and retail operating systems that include software for: managing interactive gaming (online and offline); programming wearable digital signage; automated processes related to ordering and cooking; intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods; real time detection of operating errors and pathogens; and facial recognition systems for loyalty and payment verification.
CALIBURGER ENTERS ALLIANCE AGREEMENT TO DEVELOP HIGH TECH BRAND IN ASIA PACIFIC
May 18, 2017 – Cali Group announced today that it’s wholly owned subsidiary, CaliBurger, has entered an alliance agreement with a newly formed company backed by private equity firms to relaunch the CaliBurger brand throughout Asia Pacific. Cali APA Limited will be led by Martin Lorenzo, an experienced restaurant operator and investor in Asia. Lorenzo has served as regional franchisee for brands such as Del Monte and Pepsi Cola and has also built his own restaurant brands into massive international chains. Cali APA Limited is also backed by private equity group,
Abuna.
“With CaliBurger’s increasing focus on growth in North America and it’s lead in restaurant technology innovation through its affiliated Cali Group companies, we needed a strong regional partner to manage and build the brand in Asia,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “Martin and his team are the smartest restaurant investors and operators in the region. We look forward to working with them to change the restaurant industry in Asia with our concept and related software systems.”
“CaliBurger is the future of QSR,” said Martin Lorenzo. “The technologies that CaliBurger has been deploying in its North America stores – ranging from FunWall gaming to robotic systems to loyalty program based on facial recognition – will allow us to build a premium burger brand in Asia that is highly differentiated from all others.”
CaliBurger currently has outlets in Greater China, Malaysia, and Philippines. Cali APA
Limited will initially focus on building a new model CaliBurger unit in Southeast Asia that incorporates the most recent designs and systems from North America as well as a new menu with additional localization. Cali APA Limited will build a pilot outlet and training center for the region and will start franchising the brand to qualified franchise partners throughout Asia and Australia later this year.
ABOUT CALIBURGER
CaliBurger is a 21st century classic California burger joint. Our founders are California-bred with global ambitions, bringing the best of California culture, technology, imagery and food to markets that have long craved the famous California style burger. CaliBurger provides a premium quality burger experience at an accessible QSR price
point. CaliBurger now operates in 12 countries. CaliBurger’s products feature the highest quality beef, top-grade chicken, hand-selected vegetables, zero trans-fat oils, sauces made in house, and hand-mixed shakes. Our made-to- order meals are always prepared in open kitchens, and our restaurants incorporate advanced technologies to create a unique dining experience. CaliBurger customers can enjoy a taste of California in an environment that looks, smells, and feels like California. For more information, please visit www.caliburger.com.
ABOUT CALI GROUP
Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering restaurant and retail operating systems that include software for: managing interactive gaming (online and offline); programming wearable digital signage to drive local foot traffic; automated processes related to ordering and cooking; intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods; real time detection of operating errors and pathogens; and facial recognition systems for loyalty and payment verification.
CALI GROUP RESTAURANT SUBSIDIARY ENTERS AGREEMENT TO DEVELOP LATIN AMERICA REGION
California-style, Better Burgers Coming Soon To Latin America!
May 5, 2017 – Cali Group announced today that its subsidiary, CaliBurger, has entered an agreement with its existing master franchisee in Mexico to expand the brand throughout Latin America. The regional brand will be managed by a newly formed entity backed by private equity investors, called Cali-LatAm.
“With the growing awareness of the CaliBurger brand and Cali Group restaurant technology innovations in the global restaurant community, we have experienced tremendous interest from restaurant operators in different parts of Latin America,” said John Miller, Chairman and CEO of Cali Group. “While we focus on building new company owned stores in the USA, our partner in Mexico has the infrastructure, training stores, and operating team to support restaurant operators interested in developing CaliBurger units in countries throughout the region. We look forward to working with Cali-LatAm to enhance the restaurant industry in Latin America with our restaurant operating system.”
“We are excited to bring CaliBurger’s premium, Cali-style, better burger to Mexico and to the rest of Latin America,” said Brian Pierce, Partner, Cali-LatAm. “We are passionate about CaliBurger’s superior products, service, and technology, and we’re certain that the CaliBurger brand will be well- received by our guests in Latin America. We look forward to opening CaliBurger restaurants and working diligently to make it a top dining destination.”
In growing the brand beyond Mexico and into Central and South America, Cali-LatAm will seek to form strategic partnerships with best-in-class, multi-unit franchisee candidates to capitalize on CaliBurger’s attractive value proposition. “CaliBurger’s incorporation of the technology platforms developed by its sister companies makes the CaliBurger experience ten times different from any other QSR chain,” said Luis Vidal, Partner, Cali-LatAm. “We expect FunWall, Flippy, the digital loyalty program, and future Cali Group innovations to captivate customers in Latin America seeking the best premium burgers as well as new experiences in dining.” For more information about CaliBurger franchise opportunities in Latin America, please visit www.caliburgermx.com.
ABOUT CALIBURGER
CaliBurger is a 21st century revival of the classic California burger joint. Our founders are California-bred with global ambitions, bringing the best of California culture, technology, imagery and food to markets that have long craved the famous California style burger. CaliBurger provides a premium quality burger experience at an accessible QSR price point. CaliBurger now operates in 12 countries. CaliBurger’s products feature the highest quality beef, buns baked fresh, top-grade chicken, hand-selected vegetables, zero trans-fat oils, sauces made in house, and hand-mixed
shakes. Our made-to-order meals are always prepared in open kitchens, and our restaurants incorporate advanced technologies to create a unique dining experience. CaliBurger customers can enjoy a taste of California in an environment that looks, smells, and feels like California. For more information, please visit www.caliburger.com.
ABOUT CALI GROUP
Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering restaurant and retail operating systems that include software for: managing interactive gaming (online and offline); programming wearable digital signage to drive local foot traffic; automated processes related to ordering and cooking; intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods; real time detection of operating errors and pathogens; and facial recognition systems for loyalty and payment verification.
ABOUT CALIMEX AND CALI-LATAM
Based in the U.S. and in Mexico, CaliMex and Cali-LatAm were born to shepherd the growth of business into new and emerging markets. Our partnership encompasses over a century of restaurant and foodservice industry experience at a global scale. CaliMex and Cali-LatAm are the exclusive master franchisees for CaliBurger in Mexico, Central America, and South America. For more information, please visit www.caliburgermx.com, or contact us
at [email protected].
FUNWALL AND REVEL SYSTEMS ANNOUNCE KEY PARTNERSHIP
NEW YORK, March 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — FunWall, a one stop solution for social and tournament gaming and Revel Systems, a feature-rich business platform transforming the way business is done by integrating all operations and customer channels, driven by the Point of Sale, into a single dashboard, today launched a joint program to begin selling FunWall’s platform to existing and future users of Revel’s POS platform. The partnership follows the successful deployment of FunWall’s proprietary social gaming platform at all of Revel client CaliBurger’s restaurants worldwide over the last twelve months.
FunWall enables restaurants, bars, and other retailers to better entertain their guests and increase loyalty and foot traffic. Additionally, for the first time, FunWall allows restaurant and bar owners to generate revenue outside the four walls of their establishments. Customers that download certain mobile games in the establishment continue to play outside of the establishment, and in-app purchases outside of the establishment are shared with infrastructure owners.
“In 2017, in-app purchases in mobile games will top $37 billion of revenue for the mobile gaming industry,” said Steve Ridley, CEO of FunWall. “Through our partnership with Revel, we allow infrastructure owners to use displays on their walls to entertain their guests with games of their choice while also making incremental income.”
Under the terms of the partnership, Revel will offer access to the FunWall library of mobile games to its customer base. FunWall is fully integrated with the Revel loyalty program, allowing customers to earn loyalty points or prizes, all redeemable at the POS only by playing the games.
“FunWall has had an immediate impact on CaliBurger’s business,” said John Miller, Chairman of Cali Group, which owns CaliBurger and positions in various technology companies in the restaurant and retail industries.
“As a leader in innovative technology that improves the customer experience for the restaurant and bar industry, we are pleased to offer the world’s first comprehensive social gaming platform to our rapidly growing client base,” said Scott Betts, CEO of Revel. “We look forward to working with FunWall to enable success for our clients by implementing technology allowing them to engage and understand their customers.”
About Revel Systems
Revel Systems, founded in 2010 in San Francisco, is a feature-rich business platform transforming the way business is done by integrating all operations and customer channels, driven by the Point of Sale, into a single dashboard. Designed to maximize security, stability, ease of use, and service delivery, Revel’s ecosystem replaces bulky, expensive legacy solutions with a quick, intuitive iOS-based POS platform that combines cloud-based technology and the mobility of the iPad. We work with all businesses—from small merchants to global enterprises—looking to modernize, future-proof their operations, and implement a system that adds value through incremental revenue, cost reduction, and a better experience for customers and employees. For more information on the next generation Point of Sale platform, please visit http://revelsystems.com/
About FunWall
FunWall is the one stop solution for social and tournament gaming. FunWall revolutionizes social gaming by giving everyone the power to play the games they love, as a social event, anytime, anywhere, with anyone. Leveraging in-venue screens and remote mobile gameplay in the cloud, FunWall deepens customer engagement for venue owners and broadens distribution for game developers. This adds immense value to the consumer experience, by making downtime fun and interactive, encouraging loyalty enrollment and incentivizing increased repeat visits. Visit www.funwallgaming.com
Revel Systems Contacts:
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PR Manager, Revel Systems
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FunWall Contacts:
Steve Ridley, Chief Executive Officer – (917) 346-0290 (c)
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Virginia Dadey, Chief Commercial Officer – (917) 848-0748 (c)
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Alison Hendrie, Public Relations – (914) 271-8902 (w) / (914) 450-3340 (c)
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MISO ROBOTICS UNVEILS “FLIPPY” IN CALIBURGER KITCHEN, PLANS WORLDWIDE ROLLOUT
Flippy is First in a Series of Adaptive Robots That Will Create Smarter, Safer and More Efficient Commercial Kitchens
PASADENA, Calif., March 7, 2017 – Miso Robotics and Cali Group today unveiled Flippy, an artificial intelligence-driven robot that will work alongside kitchen staff to grill burgers at CaliBurger restaurants. Flippy had its debut at the CaliBurger location in Pasadena, California. A video demonstration captured the robotic kitchen assistant flipping burgers and placing them on buns. Flippy will roll out in early 2018 and expand to more than 50 CaliBurger restaurants worldwide by the end of 2019.
Miso Robotics is pioneering the use of computer vision and deep learning software to bring low- cost, adaptable robotics into restaurants. The company’s collaborative kitchen assistant handles the hazardous, tedious and time-sensitive aspects of grilling and cooks burgers to perfection every time. It easily integrates into CaliBurger’s current kitchen layout without needing to reconfigure existing equipment.
While artificial intelligence is being successfully tested and employed to drive cars, manage the home and message with customers, Miso Robotics is the first company to bring robotics and AI into the kitchen in a meaningful way.
“Much like self-driving vehicles, our system continuously learns from its experiences to improve over time,” said David Zito, CEO of Miso Robotics. “Though we are starting with the relatively ‘simple’ task of cooking burgers, our proprietary AI software allows our kitchen assistants to be adaptable and therefore can be trained to help with almost any dull, dirty or dangerous task in a commercial kitchen — whether it’s frying chicken, cutting vegetables or final plating.”
According to the National Association of Restaurants, consumers are spending more on food outside the home than ever before. Yet despite rapid growth, the restaurant industry is plagued with inefficiencies. In 2016, turnover of restaurant workers reached an all time high at 113%.
“The application of artificial intelligence to robotic systems that work next to our employees in CaliBurger restaurants will allow us to make food faster, safer and with fewer errors,” said John Miller, Chairman of Cali Group. “Our investment in Miso Robotics is part of our broader vision for creating a unified operating system that will control all aspects of a restaurant from in-store interactive gaming entertainment to automated ordering and cooking processes, ‘intelligent’ food delivery and real-time detection of operating errors and pathogens.”
The integration of Miso Robotics into CaliBurger’s kitchens will allow the chain to redeploy some of its staff to the dining room to engage more with customers. CaliBurger will also collaborate with Miso Robotics to retrain certain staff to operate Flippy.
About Miso Robotics
Miso Robotics is revolutionizing the restaurant and prepared food industries with innovative robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Leveraging recent advances in AI and declining prices for industrial robotic arms, Miso’s robotic kitchen assistants enable restaurants to cost-effectively automate a wide range of tasks — from prep work to cooking to final assembly. Founded with a mission “to use technology to empower chefs to make food perfectly and consistently, at prices anyone can afford,” Miso enables restaurants to increase labor productivity, reduce costs and drive profitability, while improving food quality, consistency and safety.
Miso’s products are rigorously engineered to operate in commercial kitchens — they use customers’ existing equipment, are readily integrated and can work side-by-side with kitchen staff. Miso is led by David Zito, a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur. The company has launched with two initial customers, CaliBurger and Culinary On- Demand, and employs a respected team of roboticists, engineers and industrial designers from Caltech, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Art Center and UNC Chapel Hill.
About Cali Group
Cali Group comprises CaliBurger, a global restaurant chain, and its affiliated technology companies. Cali Group is pioneering the “restaurant operating system” (ROS) that includes software for managing interactive in-store entertainment, automated processes for ordering and cooking, intelligent delivery of food from kitchen to customers in local neighborhoods and real time detection of operating errors and pathogens.
About CaliBurger
CaliBurger is a 21st century revival of the classic California burger joint. Our founders are California-bred with global ambitions, bringing the best of California culture, technology, imagery and food to markets that have long craved the famous California-style burger. CaliBurger provides a premium quality burger experience at an accessible QSR price point. CaliBurger now operates in 12 countries. CaliBurger’s products feature the highest quality beef, buns baked fresh, top-grade chicken, hand-selected vegetables, zero trans-fat oils, sauces made in house and hand-mixed shakes. Our made-to-order meals are always prepared in open kitchens, and our restaurants incorporate advanced technologies to create a unique dining experience. CaliBurger customers can enjoy a taste of California in an environment that looks, smells and feels like California. For more information, please visit www.caliburger.com.
ENPLUG AND FUNWALL ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Enplug and FunWall today announced a partnership to bring FunWall’s proprietary mobile social gaming platform to Enplug’s class leading digital display technology. This partnership will instantly give Enplug’s network the ability to participate in multiplayer tournaments with other gamers in any public location. To participate, the only thing the consumer needs to bring is their mobile phone.
Enplug’s next generation digital displays are in popular social venues including restaurants, bars, gyms, retail stores, cafes, shopping malls, and office buildings, transforming today’s digital displays from one-way communication channels to intelligent, two-way communication platforms.
Enplug will be the first distributed digital display network able to offer social mobile gaming at every one of their managed locations.
“Enplug is always pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with digital displays in public spaces. We’re excited about FunWall’s proven capabilities of bringing audience engagement to the next level,” said Nanxi Liu, CEO of Enplug.
The unique FunWall platform takes the buzz around eSports and places it at everyone’s fingertips whenever and wherever they are. FunWall is the only way to turn your favorite mobile game into anything from a “one on one” challenge to “playing the entire world” in a global tournament.
The ability to harness the ubiquity of mobile games provides social infrastructure owners (retailers, bars, restaurants, QSR’s, malls and stadiums) with a radically new and powerful tool to influence both short-term behavior and to build long-term relationship with its consumers. Social mobile games provide the perfect vehicle to engage, entertain, capture and incentivize an audience.
The FunWall platform also provides a vital link between cloud and place based gaming. Using the power of “place” to fill the cloud – then using the power of the “cloud” to populate the place.
“FunWall makes that vital audience connection by combining fun and incentive into the same experience. We identified Enplug to launch because of its ease of use and future-thinking product,” said Steve Ridley, CEO of FunWall. Ridley was a founder and Global CEO of Kinetic Worldwide, the largest media company of its kind in the world.
FunWall’s unique platform will feature in the Enplug app store, making social mobile gaming at any location just a click away.
This unique partnership builds on the Enplug and FunWall ability to transform the traditional one way push communication of digital displays into a dynamic positive two-way conversation with the consumer.
ABOUT ENPLUG
Enplug is the #1 open digital displays software for businesses, transforming any TV or display into a realtime marketing tool. Enplug customers include global brands like YouTube, HP, WeWork, Marriott, Porsche and Warner Brothers. Enplug is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. For more information, visit www.enplug.com
ABOUT FUNWALL
FunWall is the one stop solution for social and tournament gaming. FunWall revolutionizes social gaming by giving everyone the power to play the games they love, as a social event, anywhere – anytime. FunWall also provides a pervasive, technologically transparent social gaming platform to all types of infrastructure owners. This adds immense value to the consumer experience, by making dwell time fun and interactive, encouraging loyalty enrollment and incentivizing increased repeat visits. www.funwallgaming.com
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CALIBURGER SPINOUT SECURES ADDITIONAL FINANCING
SLG Growth Demonstrates Unique Model For Disrupting Retail With New Technologies
October 26, 2016 – CaliBurgerTM announced today that Super League Gaming, which was spun out of CaliBurger in 2014, has issued a press release regarding its Series C financing and growth,
at http://finance.yahoo.com/news/super-league-gaming-clinches-5-130000797.html.
“CaliBurger is a technology company that sells great cheeseburgers worldwide,” said John Miller, Chairman of CaliBurger. “Our strategy has been to develop new technology platforms that can impact the guest experience or our restaurant operations, demonstrate those technologies in our restaurants, and then spin out new companies that can attract venture capital funding to deploy the offerings in the broader retail sector. In the case of Super League, we were building an in-restaurant social gaming experience (based on the blockbuster game Minecraft) for our younger guests to enjoy.”
CaliBurger has meaningful ownership positions in three other venture backed companies (FunWall, Pop-i, and Miso Robotics) and is continuing development of new technologies for use in its restaurants, including: land-based drones for food delivery in certain markets; and machine vision coupled with deep learning and data analytics for real time monitoring of restaurant operations.
ABOUT CALIBURGER
CaliBurger is a 21st century revival of the classic California burger joint. Our founders are California-bred with global ambitions, bringing the best of California culture, technology, imagery and food to markets that have long craved the famous California style burger. CaliBurger provides a premium quality burger experience at an accessible QSR price point. CaliBurger now operates in 12 countries. CaliBurger’s products feature the highest quality beef, buns baked fresh, top-grade chicken, hand-selected vegetables, zero trans-fat oils, sauces made in house, and hand-mixed
shakes. Our made-to-order meals are always prepared in open kitchens, and our restaurants incorporate advanced technologies to create a unique dining experience. CaliBurger customers can enjoy a taste of California in an environment that looks, smells, and feels like California. For more information, please visit www.caliburger.com.
SUPER LEAGUE GAMING CLINCHES $5 MILLION SERIES C INVESTMENT FROM AXIOMATIC AND TOBA CAPITAL, TOTAL FUNDING TO DATE OF $20 MILLION
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Oct. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Super League Gaming, the Santa Monica-based company that gives gamers the opportunity to enjoy the games they love on big screens in movie theaters across the country, today announced that it has received $5 million in funding from Toba Capital and aXiomatic, a premier eSports entity backed by professional sports and media leaders. Super League Gaming previously received investments from a SoftBank-managed fund, Cinemark USA, Inc., and Quadrant Management.
“Inspired by the world’s biggest eSports events, Super League Gaming’s mission is to make those experiences accessible to everyone who is passionate about their favorite games, strong-yet-supportive competition, and sense of community,” said Ann Hand, CEO Super League Gaming. “This most recent investment from Toba Capital and aXiomatic, an eSports ownership group led by Peter Guber and Ted Leonsis, accelerates our ability to bring big screen gaming to more fans and further substantiates the notion that the eSports phenomenon is here to stay.”
Founded in 2014 by parents looking for a way their children could enjoy video games like Minecraft in a social, face-to-face gameplay experience, Super League Gaming established itself through successful league seasons held in movie theaters all over North America. To date, Super League Gaming has hosted more than 9,000 kids in friendly competition in five league seasons of play.
“eSports are well on their way to becoming bigger than traditional sports. It takes a rare company like Super League Gaming, with great technology and a brilliant team led by CEO Ann Hand, to join the very short list of leaders in this space,” said Vinny Smith, Founder Toba Capital. “We are incredibly excited to partner with the company on this journey.”
Toba Capital is a venture firm that backs entrepreneurs building transformative businesses, both as an investor and as an ongoing operational partner. The firm was founded by Vinny Smith, the founder of Patrol Software and Quest Software.
Super League Gaming’s 5th Season Underway at a Theater Near You
Metropolis Madness is Super League’s current competitive Minecraft league series, being played in more than 50 theaters in 30 markets around the U.S. and Canada. The four-week league challenges 6-16 year-old players’ creativity, critical thinking and teamwork for the chance to win a $15,000 scholarship. Please visit https://superleague.com/league for more information.
In the coming weeks, the company plans to announce new programs designed around the world’s most competitive game. For more information about Super League Gaming, please visit www.superleague.com.
About Super League Gaming
Super League Gaming (www.SuperLeague.com) is the world’s first and biggest interactive video game league that takes place in movie theaters worldwide. Bringing gamers of all ages together for a social, face-to-face gameplay experience on the big screen, Super League is establishing theater auditoriums as the ultimate place to play some of the world’s most popular games and compete to climb the international Super League leaderboards. The phenomenon started in Santa Monica, Calif. in the summer of 2015 and now with Super League Gaming in its fifth season of Minecraft competition, it is only just getting started.
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