Firefly Games is a mobile game publisher founded in early 2015 that focuses on bringing top-grossing Asian mobile titles to Western markets and developing original mobile games. The company has offices in Los Angeles and a subsidiary in Shanghai and has published titles including Rush of Heroes (formerly I am MT2 in China) and Dungeon Crash. Firefly has built a publishing infrastructure and plans to leverage live-ops and business-intelligence data to scale titles and release additional games into 2017. The company is expanding into Hollywood-licensed mobile games, forming a China-based VR publishing arm, and developing an esports social streaming app. Firefly has formed a development team to produce a mobile game based on a major Hollywood intellectual property and plans to scale executive management and staff on both sides of the Pacific. As of the articles, the company had about 35 employees and reported a $100 million valuation following its latest financing. Firefly Games is a Los Angeles–based games publisher focused on bringing top-grossing Asian mobile games to Western markets. Founded in January 2015 by Michael Zhang and KJ Lin, the company plans to release four titles this year. It has grown to over 30 employees and recently opened a Shanghai office. Firefly will use new capital to acquire additional titles and to finance internal game development. The company also intends to make strategic investments worldwide to support its publishing strategy.

Total raised

$18M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Aug 2016