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
Item: Item 1
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, tournaments and leagues which allow players to interact and build relationships, strengthening the Skillz gaming community. Our players enjoy social experiences, by communicating during and after competitions, on topics ranging from sharing gameplay strategies to building healthy rivalries and making personal connections. We developed our “Friends” feature that allows players to invite others to the platform and play to further enhance the player experience.

Developer Console

Our intuitive developer dashboard enables our developer partners to rapidly integrate and monitor the performance of their games on our platform. The first step for a game developer integrating our tournament management system is to sign up for a free account on our developer portal. Developer onboarding has been optimized to enable developers to quickly and easily set up an account, access technical documentation, download the SDK and access customer support. Our developer portal has been built such that an average game developer can implement our SDK in about a day, with little or no technical support. Once a game goes live on our platform, the developer portal provides developers with a single system through which they can access analytics on user behavior and monetization for their games.

Live Operations

Delivering live operations in games is critical to user retention and engagement. Our live operations, or LiveOps, system manages and optimizes user experience across all the games on our platform. We have built a highly automated system to power LiveOps on our platform. LiveOps in mobile games on our platform encompasses everything from generating new events to creating new and exciting tournament formats. 

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With our highly automated system, we are able to run LiveOps for the games on our platform with what we believe is a fraction of the resourcing required by a typical game developer.

We run multivariate testing on our system settings to optimize user engagement and retention for games on our platform. Our system manages the presentation of tournament formats, frequency of events and merchandising of the Ticketz store, which is our in-game store that allows users to redeem prizes in exchange for tickets earned in gameplay on our platform (“Ticketz”). Ticketz can be redeemed within our loyalty program for prizes or credits to be used towards future paid-entry tournaments. 

With our segment manager tool, we can administer important system settings for users on the platform, including the types of tournaments a user sees and is eligible to enter, deposit offers and promotions available to a user, and incentives and achievements presented to a user at various moments along their gaming journey.

Payment Infrastructure

Our payments infrastructure that, we believe, is reliable and generates up uptime that meets or exceeds industry standards. We believe our technology capabilities