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Supercell is a mobile game development company based in Helsinki, Finland.
Founded in May 2010, 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 extremely 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 1 June 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).
In June 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.
In December, 2016 Supercell launched a web animated series Clash-A-Rama.
Company Coverage
[Update] Clash of Clans follow-up Boom Beach will hit the App Store on Thursday
Supercell updates Clash of Clans with new Hero abilities and a more powerful Freeze spell
Clash of Clans gets stuffed full of Christmas cheers in latest update on Android and iOS
How to rule at Clash of Clans on iPhone, iPad, and Android - tips, tricks, and cheats
Gold Award-winning freemium strategy game Clash of Clans battles its way onto Android
Supercell updates free-to-play monster hit Clash of Clans with iOS 7 support, village editing mode, and more
Supercell celebrates Clash of Clans's 1st birthday with a week-long resource collector boost deal
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