Company Directory / Entertainment
DelistedFor profitEntertainmentStockholm, Sweden
King.com
King.com is an interactive entertainment company that provides online games for global portals, websites, and other media companies.
- Founded
- 2003 23 years ago
- Staff
- 251-500 6,239 on LinkedIn
- Followers
- 195k on LinkedIn
- Funding
- $84M as listed, USD
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. Candy Crush has been the top-grossing franchise in U.S. app stores for six years, and King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, a part of Activision Blizzard… Read all
With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. Candy Crush has been the top-grossing franchise in U.S. app stores for six years, and King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, a part of Activision Blizzard which was acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta.
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Size
251-500 people: larger than 92% of companies with a size listed. 6,239 people list it on LinkedIn.
Age
23 years old.
Reach
Website ranked #8,471 in the world for traffic, about 8.6M visits a month. 194,936 followers on LinkedIn.
What it does
AndroidDigital EntertainmentMobileSocial GamesSkill GamesDevelopers & codingTechnologyMobile Games
Funding, as listed
$84M raised in total
- Rounds2
- LatestSeries a, Sept 2005
- Latest amountUSD 43,000,000
- Investors4
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Every detail we hold
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The company
- Name
- King.com
- Type
- For profit
- Status
- Delisted
- Founded
- 2003
- Founders
- Lars Markgren, Patrik Stymne, Riccardo Zacconi, Sebastian Knutsson, Thomas Hartwig, Toby Rowland
- Industry
- Entertainment
- Categories
- Android, Digital Entertainment, Mobile
- Specialities
- Social Games, Skill Games, Developers & coding, Technology, Mobile Games
Where
- City
- Stockholm
- Country
- Sweden
- Markets
- European Union (EU), Nordic Countries, Scandinavia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
Size and reach
- Staff band
- 251-500
- People on LinkedIn
- 6,239
- LinkedIn followers
- 194,936
- Web traffic rank
- #8,471
- Monthly web visits
- 8,581,937
- Apps
- 1
Funding, as listed
- Total
- $84,000,000 USD
- Rounds
- 2
- Latest round
- Series a
- Latest round date
- Sept 2005
- Latest amount
- 43,000,000 USD
- Investors
- 4
- Listing status
- delisted
Corporate family
- Part of
- Activision Blizzard
- Acquisitions made
- 4
About this record
- Sources
- Crunchbase, LinkedIn
- Last imported
- Sept 2026
Growth, as the source summarises it
Candy Crush Saga may be growing as it has achieved a significant milestone by hitting $20 billion in lifetime revenue. This financial achievement is indicative of the game's sustained popularity and profitability. Additionally, the company has set its sights on expanding the game's content by planning to introduce 15,000 new levels, which suggests an ongoing investment in product development to maintain user engagement. The fact that the game is included in the expansion of the Xbox Game Pass Library alongside other Activision Blizzard and King titles also points to strategic partnerships that could further bolster its market presence.
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Companies like it
Entertainment in Sweden.
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