Playdemic Acquisition, Valuation, Funding & Investors

Tripledot Studios is a London-headquartered mobile game developer specializing in casual titles such as Solitaire Clash, Tile Triple, and Ball Sort Puzzle. The studio publishes hypercasual and hybrid casual games downloaded over 500 million times across iOS and Android. Founded in 2017, Tripledot has expanded to more than 400 employees and topped App Store charts in 50 countries. Its portfolio generates hundreds of millions in annual revenue through in-app purchases and advertising from partners like ironSource.

NHN operates IT-related businesses across Korea, Japan, the United States, and China. Its activities include gaming, payment services, advertising, commerce, technology services, and digital content operations.

Shift Up Corp is a game design and development studio that covers a wide range of areas from game production to promotional videos and music production, based on illustrations and solid planning and programming capabilities.

DeNA Co Ltd is a social media service provider in Japan. It generates majority of the portion of its revenue by providing social media and Internet marketing-related services through its Social Media segment. The E-commerce segment offers E-Commerce related services, including the operation of auction shopping and cellular phone websites under the names DeNA shopping and Mobaoku, respectively. The Others segment is engaged in travel agency and insurance agency services, and professional baseball related business. The company has its primary market in North America.

Modern Times Group (MTG) is a Swedish gaming group headquartered in Stockholm that owns and operates mobile and PC game studios, with A and B shares listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Its studios include Plarium, maker of RAID: Shadow Legends, PlaySimple, a word- and casual-games developer acquired in 2021, InnoGames, Hutch, Ninja Kiwi (acquired 2021, known for Bloons TD), Snowprint and Futureplay. Most games are free to play, so revenue comes from in-app purchases and in-game advertising. MTG traces its origins to TV3, which Kinnevik launched in Sweden on New Year's Eve 1987 as Scandinavia's first commercial channel; its media assets were distributed to Kinnevik shareholders and listed in 1997. The group spun off its Nordic broadcasting and streaming arm as Nordic Entertainment Group (now Viaplay Group) in 2019 and sold esports operator ESL to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Gaming Group in 2022. In November 2024 it agreed to buy Plarium from Aristocrat Leisure for $620 million. In 2025 it reported record net sales of SEK 11,579 million and adjusted EBITDA of SEK 2,648 million, with 9% organic growth. Maria Redin is president and CEO.

mixi Inc is a Japanese company that provides social networking services. The company conducts its business activities mainly through the operation of websites and the provision of native smartphone games on the Internet. Its business segments include the Digital Entertainment Business, Sports Business, Lifestyle Business, and Investment Business. Mixi provides games mainly including native smartphone games through the Entertainment Business, and operates business-to-consumer and consumer-to-consumer services utilizing the Internet and invests in operating companies of these services through the Media Platform Business.

Yoozoo Interactive Co Ltd is a game-based interactive entertainment company. The company implements the strategies of big data, globalization, and quality products to achieve integrated development across four major areas namely globalized game research and development and publishing, IP management, big data and intelligent technology, and pan-entertainment industry investment. It operates using a 'film-game integration' model to deliver a series of products such as films, games, cartoons, fiction, and commercial property, building a globalized ecosystem for the pan-entertainment industry.

Nazara Technologies Ltd is a mobile game company in India. The company has offerings across the interactive gaming, eSports, ad-tech, and gamified early learning ecosystems including World Cricket Championship (WCC) and CarromClash in mobile games, Kiddopia in gamified early learning, Nodwin, PublishMe and Sportskeeda in eSports and eSports media, OpenPlay, Halaplay and Qunami in skill-based, fantasy and trivia games, and Datawrkz in digital ad tech. The company's segment includes Gaming; eSports; and Ad tech. It generates maximum revenue from the eSports segment. Geographically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the USA.

Limit Break develops blockchain-based games, adapting free-to-play models from mobile gaming to Web3 ecosystems. Founders from the mobile gaming sector drive its portfolio of immersive titles.

Voodoo is a Paris-headquartered mobile game publisher specializing in hypercasual titles such as Helix Jump and Aquapark.io. The studio develops and distributes free-to-play games across iOS and Android platforms worldwide.

Kabam is a San Francisco-headquartered entertainment company building free-to-play games for mobile and web platforms. The studio produces social, strategy, action, arcade, sports, and role-playing titles such as The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth. With offices in Los Angeles, Austin, Vancouver, Beijing, London, and Berlin, Kabam reached over 100 million players before its 2017 acquisition by Netmarble.

Mythical Games is a Sherman Oaks-headquartered studio publishing blockchain-enhanced video games like Blankos Block Party and NFL Rivals. Its Mythical Platform provides developers with Mythos Chain blockchain and MYTH token integration for true in-game asset ownership and secondary marketplaces. The company powers economies in titles across mobile, PC, and console with secure NFT transactions.

NAVER Z is a South Korean technology company operating ZEPETO, a metaverse platform with over 400 million registered users that enables creation of customizable 3D avatars using facial recognition, AR, and AI technologies. Founded by Naver through its Snow subsidiary and spun off in 2020, the platform allows users to design avatars, explore virtual worlds, create and sell digital fashion items, livestream, and socialize across age, gender, and geographic boundaries.

Playco is a Tokyo-based instant-play gaming company founded in 2020 by Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron and Game Closure co-founder Michael Carter, building a web-based game engine for instant games that run without downloads via simple web links. Its games are distributed through platforms such as Google Play Instant, iOS App Clips, Facebook Instant Games, Snapchat Minis, and cloud streaming services, with partnerships spanning Facebook, LINE Messenger, Rakuten Viber, and Snapchat. Playco targets social and messaging apps to deliver multiplayer games accessible to billions of people without requiring app installs.

Ourpalm Co Ltd is a China-based company engaged in the development, publishing, and operation of games. Its main business includes mobile terminal games, internet page games and product development, agent distribution and operation and maintenance of its peripheral products.

Kakao Games Corp is engaged in the business of developing and publishing Mobile and PC games.

Netmarble Corp is an online gaming company in South Korea. Its core business include game development and game publishing throughout the world. Some of its games include Tera M, FishingStrike, Raven, Seven Knights, among others.

Alpha Group (Alpha Group Co., Ltd., 奥飞娱乐) is a Chinese animation, toy and entertainment company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange since September 2009 under code 002292. It was founded in December 1993 by Cai Dongqing as Auldey Toys and later traded as Guangdong Alpha Animation and Culture before adopting its current name in 2016; its headquarters is in the Chenghai district of Shantou, Guangdong. The company creates and licenses animated IP, producing animated films and television series and distributing them through its media businesses, and it designs, manufactures and sells toys and building-block sets linked to its characters. Subsidiaries include Auldey Toys, Creative Power Entertaining, Alpha Pictures and Korea's David Toys and Entertainment and it has developed video games. Revenue comes from toy sales, IP licensing and content distribution. Cai Dongqing is chairman and general manager.