Company Directory / Computer Games
ClosedFor profitComputer GamesHelsinki, Finland
Grey Area
Grey Area creates location-based games for mobile and tablet devices.
- Founded
- 2009 17 years ago
- Staff
- 11-50 8 on LinkedIn
- Followers
- 340 on LinkedIn
- Funding
- $2.5M as listed, currency not stated
Grey Area was a Finnish mobile gaming company. It's first and most famous game was Shadow Cities, a location-based MMORPG for iOS. In 2012 Grey Area ranked on Wired’s Europe Top 100 Hottest Startups list and well as among top 20 European tech startups on GigaOM Euro 20 list. Grey Area released Shadow Cities for iPhone in 2011 at http://www.shadowcities.com/. The game has since become a category defining game http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/arts/video-games/shadow-cities-a-new-iphone-video-game-review.html… Read all
Grey Area was a Finnish mobile gaming company. It's first and most famous game was Shadow Cities, a location-based MMORPG for iOS. In 2012 Grey Area ranked on Wired’s Europe Top 100 Hottest Startups list and well as among top 20 European tech startups on GigaOM Euro 20 list. Grey Area released Shadow Cities for iPhone in 2011 at http://www.shadowcities.com/. The game has since become a category defining game http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/arts/video-games/shadow-cities-a-new-iphone-video-game-review.html Timeline: 2012 • Shadow Cities wins UN-based World Summit Award Mobile 2012 • Grey Area ranked among top 20 European tech startups on GigaOM Euro 20 list • Shadow Cities nominated for Best Mobile Content Award in The World Summit Awards 2012 • Grey Area ranked on Wired’s Europe Top 100 Hottest Startups list • Shadow Cities receives the Audience Award for Best iOS MMO of the Year 2012 • Grey Area ranked as on one of top 20 app companies in the world by Flurry • Shadow Cities nominated for Best Real World Game at International Mobile Gaming Awards 2012 2011 • Developers Choice Online Awards 2011: Shadow Cities wins Best Online Innovation Award
Set against six million companies
Size
11-50 people: larger than 33% of companies with a size listed. 8 people list it on LinkedIn.
Age
17 years old.
Reach
No web traffic ranking listed. 340 followers on LinkedIn.
What it does
GamingMobilePC GamesVideo Games
Funding, as listed
$2.5M currency not stated
- Rounds2
- LatestSeries a, Feb 2011
- Investors5
What the source datasets report. We have not watched these rounds ourselves.
Every detail we hold
Everything the source datasets list about Grey Area, field by field. Contact details are held but never shown.
The company
- Name
- Grey Area
- Type
- For profit
- Status
- Closed
- Founded
- 2009
- Founders
- Andreas Wedenberg, Michael De Monte, Teemu Tuulari, Ville Vesterinen
- Industry
- Computer Games
- Categories
- Gaming, Mobile, PC Games, Video Games
Where
- City
- Helsinki
- Country
- Finland
- Markets
- European Union (EU), Nordic Countries, Scandinavia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
Size and reach
- Staff band
- 11-50
- People on LinkedIn
- 8
- LinkedIn followers
- 340
- Apps
- 3
Funding, as listed
- Total
- 2,500,000 (currency not stated)
- Rounds
- 2
- Latest round
- Series a
- Latest round date
- Feb 2011
- Investors
- 5
- Listing status
- private
About this record
- Sources
- Crunchbase, LinkedIn
- Last imported
- Sept 2026
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