The funding was led by Vulcan Capital with participation from existing investor Human Capital. The financing brings the Company’s post-round valuation to nearly US$3 billion.
Wildlife is one of the world’s biggest mobile gaming companies. In the space of nine years, it has launched more than 60 games, including hits such as Sniper 3D, Zooba, Tennis Clash, War Machines, and Colorfy. The company has an ambitious vision, and its games have been downloaded more than 2 billion times.
The financing comes as Wildlife continues to experience significant growth, having recently launched two successful titles that are amongst its largest already, Tennis Clash and Zooba, and reached more than 2 billion downloads. The Company has consistent and profitable organic growth of ~70% per year, on average, since its inception and today has over 100 million monthly active users across its games.
We will continue to work to attract the world’s best game designers. We have an entrepreneurial DNA and following this new investment round, we want to become a platform for the world’s best game developers, allowing them to create their dream games. We will offer all the infrastructure these developers need to see their games achieve much more success here than elsewhere.
Victor Lazarte, co-founder and CEO of Wildlife
Wildlife will utilize the capital to continue to grow its existing titles, further accelerate its new game development engine, and build the infrastructure for the future of mobile games. Wildlife also plans to continue its investment in world-class talent as it scales globally. The company is currently in talks with some of the World’s most successful game developers. Each of them will benefit from creative freedom to follow their instincts, a community of the world’s best game designers, a powerful shared technology ecosystem, and an innovative business model that makes them vested in the success of their ideas.
Vulcan Capital is excited to support Wildlife in building a generational company in the mobile sector — initially as it continues to deliver highly popular games, but ultimately by delivering a platform for game developers.
Rafael Costa, Partner at Vulcan Capital
Vulcan Capital, which is the multi-billion investment arm of Vulcan Inc., the company founded by Microsoft Co-Founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, has invested across the gaming sector, which includes Epic Games as well as other technology giants such as Uber and Spotify.
We share a belief in the power of great talent. We’re proud to play a small part in furthering Wildlife’s mission.
Armaan Ali, Human Capital co-founder and CEO
Human Capital – a hybrid venture capital firm, recruiting company, and engineering talent agency – also participated in the round. In addition to providing capital, they have also been instrumental in building Wildlife’s engineering team.
Existing investors include Benchmark Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners as well as strategic individual investors including, Javier Olivan, VP of Growth at Facebook; Ric Elias, Co-Founder and CEO of Red Ventures; Micky Malka, Managing Partner at Ribbit Capital; Divesh Makan, Partner at ICONIQ Capital; and Hugo Barra, VP of VR at Facebook.
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