File this one under “strange but true”: Santa’s Rescue Saga, the No. 1 free Christmas iOS application in 2013, comes from the Israeli team at TabTale.
And here is another unusual fact about this fast-growing Tel Aviv-based startup: Among 25 million monthly active users of TabTale apps are many young fans in Saudi Arabia.
Far from a one-hit wonder, four-year-old TabTale recently reached a milestone 300 million downloads and offers more than 250 different games and apps for children, including lullabies, digital books and educational experiences. It’s a top 10 global publisher of mobile games by download volume.
The company releases one or two new titles every week, and aims to release 16 per month by the end of 2014, according to cofounder and CEO Sagi Schliesser, the father of eight- and 12-year-old daughters.
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