Mojang AB
Mojang's current logo, used since August 2012
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | January 2009 |
| Headquarters | Maria Skolgata 83 BV SE-118 53 , Sweden |
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Key people
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Jonas Mårtensson (CEO) Vu Bui (COO) Karin Severinson (CFO) |
| Products |
Minecraft Scrolls Cobalt |
| Revenue |
 4.276 billion SEK (2015) |
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2.008 billion SEK (2015) |
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| Profit |
1.192 billion SEK (2015) |
| Total assets |
2.143 billion SEK (2015) |
| Total equity |
 1.308 billion SEK (2015) |
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Number of employees
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47 (November 2016) |
| Parent | Microsoft Studios |
| Subsidiaries | Mojang Synergies AB Mojang Support AB |
| Website | mojang |
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Footnotes / references 2015 Year End Report |
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Mojang AB (Swedish: [mʊˈjɛŋː] "") is a Swedish video game developer and publisher founded in May 2009 under the name Mojang Specifications by game programmer Markus Persson, best known for creating the popular independent game Minecraft, a sandbox game. Mojang's company headquarters is in .Microsoft acquired Mojang in 2014 at valuation of $2.5 billion.
Following a paid trip and employment offer from Valve Corporation in early September 2010, Markus Persson founded Mojang alongside Jakob Porsér, with Carl Manneh later brought in as a CEO, as Persson desired to run a self-made independent studio for the continued development of Minecraft. Within a year, the company grew to a size of twelve employees, with their second video game, Scrolls, in development, as well as serving as the publisher of Cobalt. In 2011, Napster founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker offered to invest in Mojang, but was declined. By March 2012, the company had accumulated revenues of over $80 million.
In September 2012, Mojang began a partnership with United Nations Human Settlements Programme called "Block by Block", which entails having Minecraft players constructing sites in-game to use as a basis for assisted development of the village of Kibera in the Nairobi area of Kenya.
On 15 September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to acquire Mojang for $2.5 billion in a deal made official on 6 November 2014. With their stakes in the company bought out, the three founders, Markus Persson, Carl Manneh and Jakob Porsér left the company.
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