Company: SKLZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001801661-25-000050
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Company: Skillz Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-K
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 are critical to building and maintaining trusted relationships with our developers and users.

Data Science

Our algorithms and machine learning technologies augment all facets of our platform. Key features of our proprietary data science technologies include anti-cheat, anti-fraud, player rating and matching, and segmentation engine. We believe our technology capabilities are industry-leading and have helped to differentiate our product offerings and promote fair play.

High personalization is an integral element to enhancing the gamer experience on our platform. For example, we invented a technology for creating user segments based on dynamically linking behaviors. Our technology allows us to overlap, concatenate and exclude different behaviors to create new user journeys through game environments. We have identified dozens of different behavior sets, which enables us to increase the number of potential unique user journeys exponentially and dynamically adjust for a significantly more personalized experience.

We give gamers confidence to transact on our platform by delivering on our values of trust and fairness. We enable game developers to focus on what they do best: build great content. We provide developers of all sizes with a comprehensive technology platform enabling them to compete with the largest and most sophisticated mobile game developers in the world.

Safeguards

Strong anti-cheat and anti-fraud protections are among the most critical elements required to foster a healthy fair-play competitive ecosystem. Our systems need to continuously evolve to stay ahead of sophisticated attempts to defraud or stack the odds for one user over another user. As a component of our proprietary security systems, we use our robust data to analyze and build statistical maps to predict users’ probable next outcome. This probability modeling then enables us to statistically detect anomalies, which are escalated for further review and remediation, where needed.

Our Developer Community

The global video game market size was estimated at $221.2 billion in 2024 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5% from 2025 to 2033. Smartphones have also made video games more accessible, portable, and social. This has further driven the industry’s growth with the emergence of technologically advanced and more powerful smartphones. Market players are also focusing on developing advanced gaming products and services to attract a larger customer base, which is positively influencing the overall industry. However, mobile video game developers increasingly struggle to get their content discovered and monetized. The introduction of standardized game development platforms and universally known distribution platforms such as the AppStore, Google Play, and Galaxy Store have resulted in a flood of game content to the market. Meanwhile, traditional methods used by game developers to monet