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Space Ape Games

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Samurai Siege is a delightfully fun real time strategy / tower defense game. Build an army of Samurai, Ninjas, and fantastical creatures from the orient. Explore a mystical world as you battle through lush forests, snowy mountains, deserts, and even the high seas. Seek revenge upon the Evil Shogun for destroying your village. And when that’s complete, join forces with other players to fight to be the most powerful Alliance in the world!

FEATURES
★ FREE TO PLAY
★ Gorgeous graphics
★ Real-time strategy combat
★ Rise up from a humble village to a mighty power
★ Battle other players to rise to the top of the leader-boards
★ Unlock and upgrade dozens of troops and buildings
★ Protect your people with powerful defenses including Gatling Guns and Freeze Towers
★ Create Alliances with other players
★ Level up your Alliance to unlock perks
★ Alliance Wars! Declare war on rival Alliances and fight for honor and diamonds.
★ Fight across multiple environments in an epic, story-driven campaign

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id643798619

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Location: United Kingdom, England, London

Employees: 51-200

Total raised: $11.4M

Founded date: 2012

Investors 3

Date	Name	Website
-	Initial Ca...	initialcap...
-	Accel Part...	accel.com
-	Northzone ...	northzone....

Funding Rounds 1

Date	Series	Amount	Investors
03.12.2014	Series C	$7M	-

Mentions in press and media 28

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01.11.2019	Abertay University Partnership Helps Protect Kids in Online Games	A groundbreaking new partnership will aim to protect children in the UK from being targeted and sexually exploited in online games. The initiative will see researchers from Abertay University work alongside the National Society for the Prev...
24.05.2017	Term Sheet — Wednesday, May 24	ET CETERA Purse purgatory: We’ve written about Coach’s increasing interest in M&A before. Today Fortune’s Phil Wahba published a feature on the company’s turnaround. The relevant part for Term Sheet readers: Paid Content You can't secur...
24.05.2017	Finnish mobile gaming giant Supercell acquires 62% of Space Ape Games for $55.8 million	London-based Space Ape Games, a social and mobile games studio, has been acquired by Finnish gaming giant Supercell, which gobbled up 62 percent of the company for $55.8 million. Space Ape, however, will continue to operate independently, w...
23.05.2017	Supercell acquires 62% of London’s Space Ape Games for $55.8M	Some consolidation is afoot in the world of gaming. Today, Space Ape Games — a London social and mobile games studio founded by alums from Playfish, Mind Candy and EA — announced that Supercell has acquired 62 percent of the company for $55...
23.05.2017	Supercell acquires 62% of London’s Space Ape Games for $55.8 million	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Clash of Clans maker Supercell has acquired 62 percent of London-based Space Ape Games for $55.8 million. The deal is another sign of c...
30.03.2017	Space Ape Games’ Fastlane: Road to Revenge will star 20 YouTube influencers	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Space Ape Games has a novel tactic for getting more publicity for its Fastlane: Road to Revenge mobile game. The London-based company a...
05.03.2017	How Space Ape Games more than tripled its mobile game revenue in two years	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. These aren’t easy times for all mobile game developers. But Space Ape Games is one of the exceptions that has begun to rise above the p...
05.03.2017	How Space Ape Games more than tripled its mobile game revenue in two years	These aren’t easy times for all mobile game developers. But Space Ape Games is one of the exceptions that has begun to rise above the pack. From January 2015 to today, Space Ape Games grew from 10 million players to 35 million players, said...
22.02.2017	Announcing 26 New Companies Joining Future Fifty in 2017	This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website. Today we’re delighted to announce the companies joining the Future Fifty programme in 2017. We’re also celebrating 26 companies graduating from the programme and the remarkabl...
10.02.2016	Transformers: Earth Wars requires Hasbro, Backflip, and Space Ape to come together like Devastator	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Hasbro, Backflip Studios, and Space Ape Games have teamed up to create Transformers: Earth Wars, a real-time strategy combat game for m...
10.02.2016	Transformers: Earth Wars requires Hasbro, Backflip, and Space Ape to come together like Devastator	Hasbro, Backflip Studios, and Space Ape Games have teamed up to create Transformers: Earth Wars, a real-time strategy combat game for mobile devices. Transformers: Earth Wars debuts on iOS and Android in select markets around the world this...
16.12.2015	The UK’s Diverse Tech Ecosystem is Boosted by 15 New Future Fifty Companies	This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website. Today we announce the latest group of companies who are joining, and graduating, from our Future Fifty programme. The companies chosen demonstrate growing location and sector ...
13.05.2015	Space Ape Games Secures £4.25M in Growth Capital	Space Ape Games, a London, UK-based mobile games studio, secured £4.25m in growth capital. Silicon Valley Bank provided the financing. The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow the business and further invest in building the ...
07.05.2015	Space Ape Games aims for older hardcore fans with Rival Kingdoms mobile strategy app	Space Ape Games is launching its second big mobile app, Rival Kingdoms: Age of Ruin, in another bid to challenge the supremacy of Supercell’s Clash of Clans, which has dominated the top grossing mobile game charts for a couple of years. It’...
18.02.2015	Sega Networks acquires Marvel Puzzle Quest’s Demiurge Studios, invests in 2 Western developers	Sega continues its move westward with an acquisition and two studio investments. Sega Networks announces the acquisition of independent developer Demiurge Studios today. The company did not disclose the cost of the acquisition, but says tha...
18.02.2015	Sega Networks acquires Marvel Puzzle Quest’s Demiurge Studios, invests in 2 Western developers	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Sega continues its move westward with an acquisition and two studio investments. Sega Networks announces the acquisition of independent...
02.02.2015	How Space Ape aims to become one of the big hairy brutes of mobile gaming (interview)	LONDON — On the strength of the hit game Samurai Siege, John Earner has built a studio that has risen from the mass of indies to become one of the serious players in mobile gaming. Earner was one of the people behind the success of Playfish...
05.12.2014	Funding roundup - week ending 12/5/14	Stripe, 4th Office, Eternal Sun, ad2games, Glide, Nestio, Lesson.ly, MarketInvoice, Weaveworks, QLL Seed stage Real-time real estate platform Nestio raised a $1.6 million funding round led by Freestyle Capital with participation from RiverP...
04.12.2014	Space Ape Games Raises $7M in Funding	Space Ape Games, a London, UK-based mobile games developer, raised $7m in funding. The round was led by Northzone with participation from Accel Partners, Initial Capital and Connect Ventures. The company, which has raised $11m to date, inte...
03.12.2014	London mobile gaming studio Space Ape Games raises $7 million to embark on a hiring spree	London, UK-based mobile games studio Space Ape Games, which was founded in 2012 by gaming and tech startup vets like John Earner (ex-Playfish, PlayStation) and Toby Moore (ex-Mind Candy), has closed a $7 million round of funding to kick off...
03.12.2014	Space Ape Games, Maker Of Samurai Siege, Grabs $7M Series C	Space Ape Games, the London-based mobile games developer behind Samurai Siege — a game that has seen 10 million downloads since launch just over a year ago and netted the company $20m in aggregate revenue — has closed a $7 million Series C ...
03.12.2014	Samurai Siege developer Space Ape Games raises $7M in latest funding round	Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Another mobile developer is building up its stockpile of cash to connect with gamers on smartphones. London-based Space Ape Games, the ...
05.12.2013	Spotify Backer Northzone Raising New $272M Fund For Startups With “Nordic DNA”, $204M Secured So Far	Northzone, the Scandinavian VC that was an early backer of music streaming service Spotify and other notable startups out of the region, today announced that it is raising a new, €200 million ($272 million) fund, which it will use to invest...
25.11.2013	With 10M downloads for Super Penguins, Supersolid launches Adventure Town mobile game	Supersolid scored big with 10 million downloads for Super Penguins. Now the London mobile game startup hopes to produce the same results with Adventure Town. Above: Adventure Town lets you build a village and defend it from monsters. Image ...
13.10.2013	After Playfish, social-game veterans return with Samurai Siege, earning $50K a day	John Earner and his team of happy Londoners scored big in the first generation of social games. Now, they’re back with a new startup, Space Ape Games, and a hit title Samurai Siege, which is generating $50,000 a day in revenue from more tha...
01.08.2013	Boston Deals: aPriori, Pwnie Express, Space Ape, Micronotes	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints A fresh helping of investment deals, stretching across Massachusetts and up to Vermont, in sectors ranging from enterprise software to mobile gaming: —aPriori Technologies, a ...
30.07.2013	Facebook gets into the mobile games publishing business	Facebook will provide developers with resources, including analytics, in exchange for revenue share (Updated to reflect comment from Kiwi) Since the breakup between Facebook and Zynga at the end of last year, the two companies have been goi...
17.06.2013	Why Gaming Is Still A Great Bet For Investors	Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001. After serving as Electronic Arts’ executive vice president of digital, he left three months ago to focus on startups. Today, he leads seed-stage invest...

Space Ape Games

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Funding Rounds 1

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