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Playfish is a social games company that develops and publishes video games on social networks like Facebook.

Founded in October 2007 by casual and mobile games veterans and backed by Accel Ventures and $4M in funding, we believe games are more fun when played with friends and family. So we are working on combining the best elements of casual games, social networks, MMOGs and virtual worlds to...More»

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10/2007
Consumer Internet
Entertainment / Game
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Date Type Capital Amount Post-Money Valuation Investors
03/2008 Seed 3M Unknown
07/2008 Series A 1M Unknown
10/2008 Series B 17M Unknown

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as long as they continue to expand their tests people will continue to play their games!

pdizzlle 08/26/2008

Social network casual games are super popular and viral

tburger 06/27/2008

They claim to have 6MM players playing 100MM games per month

tburger 06/27/2008
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I like their games, but will advertising be enough to cover development costs?

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hsienhui 06/30/2008
They are monetizing now with premium features ryean 07/27/2008

Their games are largely single player games with SOME social features added on.

ryean 07/24/2008
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