Ninja Metrics

Ninja Metrics, Inc. is a Social analytics and Big data company based in Manhattan Beach, California. Its primary service measures social influence and provides predictive analytics for web and mobile applications.

History

Ninja Metrics was founded by Dr. Dmitri Williams (PhD, University of Michigan) and Dr. Jaideep Srivastava (PhD, University of Minnesota) in 2009 after being in development at University of Michigan labs for 2 years.

On July 17, 2013, Ninja Metrics raised $2.8 million in funding primarily from angels, super angels, the Harvard Business School Angels of Los Angeles, and the Tech Coast Angels, including the latter's ACE fund.

The company’s current COO is Fabian Schonholz, and its board of directors include Mark Kolokotrones, Bob Hawk, Robin Kaminsky and Yuri Pikover.

Katana® Social Analytics Engine

Ninja Metrics launched its primary service called the Katana® Social Analytics Engine in 2013, a Cloud computing Social analytics platform for video games.

The platform measures the value of social contributions in applications and games, provides projections for the outcomes to developers and offers tools to determine how effectively features facilitate engagement and social interaction.