Zynga
Zynga has created some of the most successful social networking games, including Farmville, Mafia Wars, Texas Hold Em, Petville, Cafe World and Scramble. Zynga has something for everyone: casino games, word games, board games, role playing games and party games which can be found on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and Hi5. Zynga games have 235 million monthly active users across social network and mobile platforms. The primary monetization stream for Zynga is by selling virtual goods for use in a game, like chips in poker.… more
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Company Overview
Zynga has created some of the most successful social networking games, including Farmville, Mafia Wars, Texas Hold Em, Petville, Cafe World and Scramble. Zynga has something for everyone: casino games, word games, board games, role playing games and party games which can be found on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and Hi5. Zynga games have 235 million monthly active users across social network and mobile platforms.
The primary monetization stream for Zynga is by selling virtual goods for use in a game, like chips in poker. An April 2009 article from TechCrunch reported that Zynga’s revenues for 2009 may “be well above” $100 million.
Zynga has reportedly raised $39 million from Avalon Ventures, Foundry Group, Individual Investors, Union Square Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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CEO:
Mark Pincus
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HQ:
San Francisco, CA
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Capital Raised:
$39M
Financings
- Series: C
- Type: Fifth Round
- Date: December-2009
- Stock: Preferred
- Total Investment: $180,000,000.00
- Investors:
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- Digital Sky Technologies
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Institutional Venture Partners
- Tiger Global
- Series: B1
- Type: Fourth Round
- Date: March-2009
- Stock: Preferred
- Total Investment: $15,200,000.00
- Investors:
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- Klein Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Union Square Ventures
- Foundary Group
- Avalon Ventures
- Series: B
- Type: Third Round
- Date: July-2008
- Stock: Preferred
- Total Investment: $13,800,000.00
- Investors:
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- Klein Perkins Caufield & Byers
- Union Square Ventures
- Foundary Group
- Avalon Ventures
- Series: A1
- Type: Second Round
- Date: June-2008
- Stock: Preferred
- Total Investment: $5,000,000.00
- Investors:
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- Avalon Ventures
- Clarium Capital
- Foundary Group
- Pilot Group
- Union Square Ventures
- Reid Hoffman
- Peter Thiel
- Brad Pittman
- Andy Russell
- Brad Feld
- Series: A
- Type: First Round
- Date: April-2008
- Stock: Preferred
- Total Investment: $5,600,000.00
- Investors:
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- Avalon Ventures
- Clarium Capital
- Foundary Group
- Pilot Group
- Union Square Ventures
- Reid Hoffman
- Peter Thiel
- Brad Pittman
- Andy Russell
- Brad Feld
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