Siddhartha Sankar Mondal

PikkoTekk is a company that provides network and server solutions for online games. The company has developed a suite of new products and tools that has changed the way the industry makes multiplayer games and MMOs. Most recognized amongst its achievements is Pikko Server, a server software layer that can load balance and scale game servers far beyond the capability of any other system. Since founded in 2009 by David Almroth, Mattias Norlander and the REEP development group, the company has been successful in attracting a wide range of customers, from such giants as Ericsson to newly formed companies such as Free Range Games (formed by former lead developers of Activision). PikkoTekk has made its technology available to Unity developers through its sales and support organisation UnityPark (www.unitypark3d.com). In addition, PikkoTekk has a number of partnerships with well established companies and institutions. Some of whom are Erlang Solutions and Uppsala University.

MuchDifferent is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing high tech solutions, mainly in the fields of online gaming and signal analysis. MuchDifferent is owned in full by its members. MuchDifferent headquarters are located in Uppsala, Sweden and Seoul, South Korea. We are MuchDifferent in more than name: We believe that running a business needs to be about more than making a profit, that creative joy scales further than financial incentives and that our strength comes from the happiness we find in doing really difficult things together. Our philosophy is simple: We want to make the world a better place, we want to give ourselves the opportunity and time to work on the most interesting and most difficult projects we can find and we want to create an environment where we will thrive and become the best possible versions of ourselves. This is paramount in everthing we do, the decisions we take, the way we run MuchDifferent and the people we recruit to join us. We are MuchDifferent, and proud of it.

PikkoTekk is a company that provides network and server solutions for online games. The company has developed a suite of new products and tools that has changed the way the industry makes multiplayer games and MMOs. Most recognized amongst its achievements is Pikko Server, a server software layer that can load balance and scale game servers far beyond the capability of any other system. Since founded in 2009 by David Almroth, Mattias Norlander and the REEP development group, the company has been successful in attracting a wide range of customers, from such giants as Ericsson to newly formed companies such as Free Range Games (formed by former lead developers of Activision). PikkoTekk has made its technology available to Unity developers through its sales and support organisation UnityPark (www.unitypark3d.com). In addition, PikkoTekk has a number of partnerships with well established companies and institutions. Some of whom are Erlang Solutions and Uppsala University.

MuchDifferent is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing high tech solutions, mainly in the fields of online gaming and signal analysis. MuchDifferent is owned in full by its members. MuchDifferent headquarters are located in Uppsala, Sweden and Seoul, South Korea. We are MuchDifferent in more than name: We believe that running a business needs to be about more than making a profit, that creative joy scales further than financial incentives and that our strength comes from the happiness we find in doing really difficult things together. Our philosophy is simple: We want to make the world a better place, we want to give ourselves the opportunity and time to work on the most interesting and most difficult projects we can find and we want to create an environment where we will thrive and become the best possible versions of ourselves. This is paramount in everthing we do, the decisions we take, the way we run MuchDifferent and the people we recruit to join us. We are MuchDifferent, and proud of it.