Socialpoint (formerly Social Point until 2019) is a Spanish video game developer based in Barcelona. Founded in October 2008 by Horacio Martos and Andrés Bou, the company specializes in free-to-play mobile and social network games. Socialpoint was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in February 2017.
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| Formerly | Social Point (2008–2019) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Video games |
| Founded | 2008 |
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| Headquarters | , Spain |
Key people | |
| Revenue | 85,000,000 Euro (2015)  |
Number of employees | 360[1] (2018) |
| Parent | Take-Two Interactive (2017–present) |
| Website | socialpoint.es |
History
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Social Point was founded by Andrés Bou and Horacio Martos in 2008. Between 2008 and 2011, they launched 25 online social games. In January 2011, Social Point released the battle and strategy game Social Empires.
In November 2011, Social Point released Social Wars and a mobile version of Social Empires. On 8 May 2012, they announced the release of Dragon City for Facebook.
In July 2012, Social Point announced it had closed a Series B round of venture capital funding to a total of $10 million. TechCrunch reported that funding for the B.1 round was provided by Nauta Capital, Idinvest Partners, and BBVA bank.[2]
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya published an article in October 2012 announcing that Social Point was an official collaborator in its master's program in Videogames Design.[3]
Spanish newspaper Expansión printed an article in February 2013, stating that Greylock Partners had invested €2.9 million in Social Point in December 2012.[4]
Social Point announced the releases of iOS and Android versions of Dragon City on 21 March 2013 and 3 July 2013, respectively.[5] In 2014, they launched a new title, Monster Legends, for Facebook, iOS, and Android.
In 2013, Social Point announced its partnership with the mSchools Initiative, a multi-year, multi-faceted education initiative led by the Mobile World Capital Barcelona.[6]
Social Point confirmed that its staff would be involved in mentoring school children as part of the App Education Course element of the initiative: a computer science elective that was offered in Catalan high schools to teach students about application design and prototype development.[7]
In August 2013, VentureBeat named Social Point one of the 20 fastest-growing mobile startups in the world.[8]
According to the company, in 2015 it had a turnover of 85 million euros (50% coming from the United States) and its video games accumulated 180 million downloads.[9]
In January 2016, the company launched a new title, World Chef,[10] and two months later, Dragon Land.[11]
In 2016, it generated $90 million in annual revenue and $20 million in profits according to parent company Take-Two Interactive.[12]
In December 2019, Social Point was rebranded as Socialpoint and introduced a new logo.[13]
Games developed
edit| Year | Title | Platform(s) | Ref | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Android | Fire OS | iOS | ||||
| 2011 | Social Empires | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| Social Wars | No | Yes | No | No | ||
| 2012 | Dragon City | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | [14] |
| 2013 | Monster Legends | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Jurassic Hunter | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2016 | World Chef | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| Dragon Land | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
| 2019 | Tasty Town | Yes | No | No | Yes | [15] |
| Word Life | Yes | No | No | Yes | [16] | |
| 2023 | Top Troops | Yes | No | No | Yes | [17] |
References
edit- ^ Chartboost (2 April 2018). "Social Point - Lessons from building a game start-up and being acquired (Chartboost Dev House)". YouTube. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ Wauters, Robin. "Social games developer Social Point raises €2.4 million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
- ^ "Social Point Collaborator in Master in Videogames Finalist in Emprendedor XXI". Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
- ^ Díaz, Tina (12 February 2013). "La "start up" Social Point eleva su financiación hasta once millones". Expansión (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 August 2013.
- ^ "Dragon City Game by Social Point Reaches Broadest User Base Yet through Optimization for Intel® Atom™ Tablets for Android* - Yahoo Finance". Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 17 January 2017.
- ^ "GSMA Backs New Mobile Education Initiative of the Mobile World Capital". Retrieved 22 August 2013.
- ^ "Social Point Partners with GSMA for Education". Archived from the original on 9 August 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
- ^ Farr, Cristina (5 August 2013). "Meet the 20 fastest- growing mobile startups". Venture Beat.
- ^ Pueyo Busquets, Jordi (1 February 2017). "Los Pokémon catalanes se van por 250 millones". El País. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ "Have You Ever Dreamed of Opening Your Own Restaurant?". Marketwire. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ "Dragon Land Is a Gorgeous New 3D Platformer out Now on Mobile". Gamezebo. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid. "Take-Two moves into mobile games, buys Social Point for up to $276M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ^ Socialpoint (17 December 2019). "Something is changing..." Instagram. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021.
- ^ Reyburn, Scott (30 May 2013). "Social Point's Andrés Bou on Dragon City's success on mobile, sticking with the Facebook platform and plans for 2013". Adweek. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
- ^ "Tasty Town forks over food fun on Android and iOS". VentureBeat. 31 January 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ "Word Life - A New Multiplayer Mobile Word Game Is Out Now". RAGE Works. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ "Zynga's Socialpoint launches merge RPG Top Troops today". Pocket Gamer. 9 May 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2023.