Seriously is a mobile entertainment company best known for its puzzle game Best Fiends. The company released Best Fiends in October 2014 and the title has been downloaded over 15 million times, with up to 1.35 million daily active players. Seriously plans to release the second game in the trilogy later this year. Led by co-founder and CEO Andrew Stalbow, the company said it will use new funding to build out production teams and invest in additional marketing programs. Seriously raised $18M in a Series A and has raised $28M to date. The company is based in Venice, California, and maintains business development and marketing offices in Helsinki, Finland. Seriously is a mobile gaming studio best known for Best Fiends, a puzzle game available globally on iOS devices. The company, founded in August 2013 and based in Helsinki, plans to release the second title in a trilogy in 2015. Leadership includes Andrew Stalbow (CEO) and Petri Järvilehto (Chief Creative Officer). Seriously recently raised an additional $5M, bringing total funding to $10M to date. The company intends to use the new funds to grow its team and expand globally and plans to commence a Series A round in the new year. Seriously is a mobile-games creator based in Helsinki, Finland and Los Angeles, CA. It builds mobile games intended to become broader entertainment properties and is developing its first title for a planned launch later in summer 2014. The company's core product focus is content-driven mobile games and growing the team to support that content development. Seriously raised $2.65M in its second seed round and has now raised $5M in seed funding overall. The new capital will be used for content development and hiring. Leadership includes CEO Andrew Stalbow and CCO Petri Järvilehto; recent hires include Philip Hickey (VP, Marketing & Communications) and game artist Petri Räsänen. Seriously was founded by former Rovio executives Petri Järvilehto and Andrew Stalbow and is positioning itself as a studio that builds "casual plus" mobile games. The company plans to leverage games to create durable entertainment and media brands, following a strategy similar to Rovio's approach with Angry Birds. One co-founder is based in Helsinki and will head game development; the other is based in Los Angeles with entertainment industry ties. Seriously says it will announce initial hires shortly and aims to start launching games next year. Financially, the company has just closed a seed financing round to fund early operations and development. No operating metrics or revenue figures were disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$28M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Aug 2015