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Playfish

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Playfish is a creator of social games for friends to play together over social platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Google, iPhone and Android. Each of the company’s seven games has been a top 10 hit on Facebook, including Pet Society, which is the platform’s most popular game and enjoyed by more than 11 million people every month. Playfish is backed by Accel Partners and Index Ventures, and has offices in London, San Francisco, Beijing and Tromso, Norway.

Milestones

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  Playfish was acquired by Electronic Arts for $400M. (11/9/09)
  Posted 11/9/09 at 7:13am
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  Playfish received $17M in Series B funding. (10/28/08)
  Posted 10/30/08 at 7:52am
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  Playfish received $1M in Seed funding. (7/1/08)
  Posted 7/2/08 at 11:29am
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  Playfish received $3M in Seed funding. (3/11/08)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 4:50am
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  Playfish added Sebastien de Halleux as COO & Co-Founder. (4/28/82)
  Posted 5/15/08 at 9:48am
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  Playfish added Kristian Segerstrale as CEO & co-founder.
  Posted 5/15/08 at 9:48am
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  Playfish added Sami Lababidi as CTO & co-founder.
  Posted 5/15/08 at 9:49am
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  Playfish added Shukri Shammas as CFO & co-founder.
  Posted 5/15/08 at 9:49am
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  Playfish added John Earner as Vice President, Product Management.
  Posted 11/5/09 at 1:50pm

Videos

Screenshots

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Products

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Bowling Buddies

Country Story

Crazy Planets

Geo Challenge

Minigolf Party

Pet Society

Quiztastic

Restaurant City

Who Has The Biggest Brain?

Word Challenge

Traffic Analytics

Quantcast

Compete

Sources

1. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Venturebeat article (venturebeat.com) [edit]
3. Playfish nabs $1M for social gaming (venturebeat.com) [edit]
4. Facebook Game Developer Playfish Closes $17M Series B Round (alleyinsider.com) [edit]