Scopely Scores $340M in Series E

Scopely, a leading mobile games company, announced $340 million in Series E funding from a strong group of investors with expertise in the interactive entertainment space, including Wellington Management, NewView Capital, TSG Consumer Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), funds managed by BlackRock, D1, Battery Ventures, Eldridge, Declaration Partners, and Moore Strategic Ventures. Additional investors in the round include Greycroft, Baillie Gifford, Sands Capital, Revolution Growth, and Highland Capital Partners.

Scopely is a premier mobile entertainment network dedicated to offering the very best games across all genres. Scopely brings the traditional entertainment model of blending in-house development with hand-picked third party talent and intellectual properties to build out a catalog of carefully cultivated franchises to mobile free-to-play games. Scopely's games leverage its proprietary platform for technology, distribution, marketing and monetization with an all-star team of 100 + engineers, data scientists and product managers. The company was founded in 2011 by social gaming entrepreneur, Walter Driver; former Applied Semantics co-founder, Eytan Elbaz; former lead software developer on MySpace's Developer Platform, Ankur Bulsara; and startup veteran, Eric Futoran.