Supercell (video game company)
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| Industry | Mobile games |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
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Key people
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Ilkka Paananen (CEO) |
| Products | Full list |
| Revenue |
 €2.11 billion (2015) |
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€845 million (2015) |
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| Owner | Tencent (84.3%) |
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Number of employees
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180 (2015) |
| Website | Official website |
Supercell Oy is a mobile game development company founded in June 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. The company's debut game was the browser game Gunshine.net, and after its release in 2011, Supercell started developing games for mobile devices. Since then, the company has fully released four mobile games: Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, and Clash Royale, which are freemium games and have been very successful for the company, the first two generating revenue of $2.4 million a day in 2013.
Accel Partners invested $12 million in Supercell in 2011, and in October 2013 it was announced that the Japanese company GungHo Online Entertainment and its parent SoftBank had acquired 51% of the company for a reported $2.1 billion. On June 1, 2015, SoftBank acquired an additional 22.7% stake in Supercell, which brought their total stake to 73.2% of the company and made them the sole external shareholder. In 2016, Supercell reported annual revenues of around €2.11 billion. In three years, the company's revenues have grown a total of 800 percent, from 78.4 million (2012).
On June 21, 2016 Tencent announced a deal to acquire 84.3% of Supercell with USD 8.6 billion. Japan's SoftBank values Supercell at $10.2 billion. On 8 December 2016 Supercell launched a Web Animated Series Clash-A-Rama for promoting the Clash Universe.
Supercell was part of the giant Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank, which owned 73.2% of the company. Ilkka Paananen owns 6% and Mikko Kodisoja 5.4% of the shares. The rest belong to the employees and other founders. Originally, SoftBank bought 51% of the company together with the game company GungHo for 1.1 billion euros in 2013. In the sale, all Supercell's employees sold the same amount of their shares. One condition for the sale was that the main office would stay in Finland. SoftBank and GungHo founded the Kahon 3 Inc. in Finland. The company's articles of incorporation state that the company will remain Finnish. Kahon bought Supercell, and later GungHo sold its shares to SoftBank. In May 2015, SoftBank finally bought the rest of the investors out of the company and increased its shares to 73.2%. At that time the technology magazine VentureBeat estimated the value of Supercell to be 4.9 billion euros. In March 2016, SoftBank owned over 75% of Supercell's shares. Supercell's main office is located in the former facilities of the Nokia research center in Helsinki's Ruoholahti district. The company has offices also in Tokyo, Beijing, San Francisco, and Seoul.
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