Igor Bukhman (born 29 March 1982) is a

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Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

i entrepreneur. Together with his brother

Dmitry Bukhman Dmitry Bukhman (born 27 May 1985) is a Russian-born Israeli entrepreneur. Together with his brother Igor Bukhman, they founded online gaming company Playrix, which is best known for its mobile-app games such as '' Homescapes'' and '' Fishdom''. ...

, they founded online gaming company

Playrix Playrix Holding Ltd., also known as Playrix Entertainment and Playrix Games, is a developer of free-to-play mobile games behind titles such as ''Township'', '' Fishdom'', ''Homescapes'', and '' Gardenscapes''. The company was founded in 2004 by Dm ...

, which is best known for its mobile-app games such as ''

Homescapes ''Homescapes'' is a casual free-to-play puzzle game. It was developed and launched by Playrix in 2017 as a successor to their 2016 match-3 game, '' Gardenscapes''. The storyline narrates about attempts of the game's protagonist, Austin the Butler, ...

'' and '' Fishdom''. Igor and his brother Dmitry were born in

Vologda Vologda ( rus, Вологда, p=ˈvoləɡdə) is a city and the administrative center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina. Population: The city serves as a major transport hub of ...

. Since he was a kid, Igor was engaged in programming. In 1999, Igor Bukhman was enrolled on the Faculty of Applied Mathematics at the . In 2001, together with his brother, they started developing online games. The same year, they published their first game ''Discovera''. The brothers priced it at $15, uploaded it to 200 app directories, and made $60 in the first month. They founded

in 2004. By that time, they had released three games and around 30 screensavers; by 2007, the number of games increased to 16, and the company's monthly income constituted around $. Soon the company released such games as ''Homescapes'', ''

Gardenscapes ''Gardenscapes: New Acres'' is a casual match-3 game, released in 2016 for Android and iOS devices and also on Facebook. Gameplay The original version of ''Gardenscapes'', which was released for Microsoft Windows in October 2009, and was lat ...

'', ''Fishdom'', and ''

Township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

''. In 2014, he moved to

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ...

. In 2016, he acquired Israeli citizenship. In 2018, they personally invested in video and social network games developer Nexters Global and in

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ian Vizor Games. In 2019, Playrix bought the

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n studios Plexonic and

Eipix Entertainment Eipix Entertainment is a Serbian video game developer based in Novi Sad. The company was founded in 2005 and develops casual games for Microsoft Windows, PC, Mac OS, Mac, iOS and Android (operating system), Android, as well as Virtual reality#Vi ...

, respectively. They also own stakes in the publishing house "Comitet" (''russian: Комитет'') that manages Russian media portals , , , and

Coub Coub is a video streaming platform available on the web, iOS and Android. It allows users to create and share looped audio-visual collages up to ten seconds long, using existing video clips from YouTube, Vimeo, and other popular video sharing ...

. Igor Bukhman made the 2022 ''

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'' Billionaires List with an estimated wealth of $8.1 billion and occupied the 275th position.

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