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PrivateFor profitComputer GamesLondon, England, United Kingdom

Space Ape

Space Ape creates mobile games for apple and android smartphones.

Founded
2012
14 years ago
Staff
101-250
38 on LinkedIn
Followers
39k
on LinkedIn
Funding
$108M
as listed, USD

Space Ape is an award winning mobile game studio in central London and founded in 2012. Since then our five games have been played by over 170m people, generated half a billion in revenue but we're just getting started. We are around 150 employees, from 30 different nationalities and diverse backgrounds united in a mission to make the world's next great game. In 2017 we partnered with Supercell (makers of Clash of Clans etc and part of Tencent) by way of majority acquisition. Our music game, Beatstar, reached #1… Read all

Space Ape is an award winning mobile game studio in central London and founded in 2012. Since then our five games have been played by over 170m people, generated half a billion in revenue but we're just getting started. We are around 150 employees, from 30 different nationalities and diverse backgrounds united in a mission to make the world's next great game. In 2017 we partnered with Supercell (makers of Clash of Clans etc and part of Tencent) by way of majority acquisition. Our music game, Beatstar, reached #1 download in 24 countries and is the top grossing music game globally. With BILLIONS of song plays and millions of people discovering it each month Beatstar is an important new platform for music discovery with top artists releasing their songs in Beatstar on the same day, or in some cases before, they are dropped on streaming platforms. If country music is more your thing check out Country Star, a recent follow up to Beatstar that might be more your thing. Chrome Valley Customs brings an innovative twist to cater to a large underserved segment of the world's most successful game genre. Within the first two months it became the top grossing car game globally and we're just getting started. Space Ape was voted Best Game Developer, and Beatstar Game of the Year in the 2022 Pocket Gamer Mobile Game Awards in BAFTA London (April 2022). Its game lead Charmie Kim won Best Newcomer at the DEVELOP Awards (July 2022), and it was short listed as one of Google Play User Choice Awards (Dec 2021). Space Ape won Mobile Developer of the Year in the Pocket Gamer Awards (2023).

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Size

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101-250 people: larger than 85% of companies with a size listed. 38 people list it on LinkedIn.

Age

201219002026

14 years old.

Reach

Website ranked #252,500 in the world for traffic, about 163k visits a month. 39,063 followers on LinkedIn.

What it does

AndroidGamingMobilePC GamesVideo Gamesvideo gamesmobile gamesiOSandroidgamingeventsgame designart

Funding, as listed

$108M raised in total

  • Rounds8
  • LatestDebt financing, Jul 2022
  • Latest amountUSD 37,000,000
  • Investors8, 4 leading

What the source datasets report. We have not watched these rounds ourselves.

FoundersJohn Earner, Simon Hade

Funding filed with regulators

Space Ape filed one raise, $7.5M in all. Filings say how much was sold and to how many investors; they never name the investors.

  1. Jul 2025$7.5MUK share allotment

Every detail we hold

Everything the source datasets list about Space Ape, field by field. Contact details are held but never shown.

The company

Name
Space Ape
Type
For profit
Status
Private
Founded
2012
Founders
John Earner, Simon Hade
Industry
Computer Games
Categories
Android, Gaming, Mobile, PC Games, Video Games
Specialities
video games, mobile games, iOS, android, gaming, events, game design, art

Where

City
London
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Markets
Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)

Size and reach

Staff band
101-250
People on LinkedIn
38
LinkedIn followers
39,063
Web traffic rank
#252,500
Monthly web visits
162,985

Funding, as listed

Total
$108,040,460 USD
Rounds
8
Latest round
Debt financing
Latest round date
Jul 2022
Latest amount
37,000,000 USD
Investors
8
Lead investors
4
Listing status
private

About this record

Sources
Crunchbase, LinkedIn
Last imported
Sept 2026

Growth, as the source summarises it

Space Ape reported significant financial growth, with Chrome Valley Customs on track to surpass Beatstar by earning $40 million. Additionally, the company experienced a remarkable turnaround, generating nearly $100 million last year after a challenging period.

Summaries written by the source dataset, not by us, and not checked.

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