Aurora Feint is best known as the maker of OpenFeint, a mobile social platform and game network. The company operates a library of roughly 3,400 titles, including Fruit Ninja, Jaws and Monster Dash. Its signature game, Aurora Feint, and its sequels have over 1,700 reviews averaging four stars; Monster Dash has a 4.5-star rating from 610 reviewers. Games on the network are developed by partners such as Digital Chocolate, Hudson, Big Pixel, Half Brick, Capcom and Taito. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Burlingame, CA. To date it has raised $12 million in total funding, most recently a $3 million round. Aurora Feint provides the OpenFeint social-gaming platform, launched in December 2008, that lets mobile game developers add leaderboards, achievements and cross-promotion to iPhone titles. The platform has more than 200 live App Store games, about 500 titles in development and 2,500 registered app developers. OpenFeint is designed to help publishers increase engagement and discovery across a crowded app marketplace. The company has 19 employees and was founded in 2007 in Burlingame, Calif. As part of an international push into Japan, DeNA is deploying OpenFeint on a new smartphone and Hudson Soft will be the first Japanese partner, using OpenFeint for an upcoming Bomberman mobile game. The deal supports Aurora Feint’s expansion into one of the world’s largest mobile markets but the company’s own revenue figures were not disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Oct 2010