Traplight is a mobile game studio based in Tampere, Finland, focused on developing mid-core titles. Founded by Sami Kalliokoski, Jari Paananen and Riku Rakkola, the studio has a team of 30. It has just launched Battle Legion, a mobile mass-battle multiplayer spectator game currently in limited-market beta. Players can build armies from dozens of versatile fighters and customize skins, battlefields, portraits, banners and titles. Battle Legion is scheduled for global availability later this year. Traplight secured funding to expand adoption of the new game. Traplight is a Tampere, Finland–based mobile game studio focused on user-generated content (UGC) games. Led by CEO Riku Rakkola, its first UGC mobile game, Big Bang Racing, launched in July 2016 and was selected as App Store’s Best of 2016. Big Bang Racing has over 7.3 million levels created by players. Traplight raised $2.7M in a funding round led by Korea Investment Partners, bringing total investment in the company to $5M. Participants in the round included previous investors Sunstone Capital and Finnvera as well as angel investor Shukri Shammas. The company will use the funds to scale up the team and further develop mobile games built around player creativity and its UGC vision. Traplight Games is a Tampere, Finland mobile game studio developing What on Earth!, a physics-based mobile game in which all levels, challenges and live events are created by players. The debut iOS title blends racing gameplay with user-generated levels, asynchronous shadow racing, endless competitions and live events. The company said it will use the new funding to finalize What on Earth! for an early 2015 launch. Traplight was founded in 2010 and has a team of 12 people with prior project work for Supercell and Redlynx. The studio highlights its in-house technical innovations and was nominated for Best Social Game at Game Connection 2014 in Paris. Sunstone Capital’s Nikolaj Nyholm joined Traplight’s board as part of the fundraising.

Total raised

$12M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jul 2020