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Chartboost

Gaming · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2011

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Chartboost, founded in 2011, is a prominent in-app monetization and programmatic advertising platform. The company reaches over 700 million unique users monthly across more than 200,000 mobile apps, collaborating with many of the top-grossing iOS and Android app developers. Chartboost enables app developers to generate advertising revenue while providing advertisers access to highly engaged audiences. The Chartboost SDK is the most integrated independent mobile ad SDK, and the company has been recognized as a top media source by Kochava, Appsflyer, and Singular. Acquired by Zynga in 2021, Chartboost operates from offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Beijing.

Keywords: in-app monetization, programmatic advertising, mobile apps, SDK, advertising revenue, app developers, advertisers, user engagement, Zynga, media source.

Company overview

Chartboost company information

The essential company record, classifications and operating signals in one place.

Status
Acquired
Founded
2011
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Employees
53
Open positions
None listed
Dealroom signal
59.3
Investment activity
1 companies · latest Feb 2016
Capital deployed
Preferred round
ACQUISITION
client focusb2bbusiness modelMarketplace & ecommerceindustryGamingsectorAdtechsectorSaaSsectorSocialsectorAdvertisingsectorGame DevelopmentsectorAppsectorVideosectorPlatformindustryMarketing

Valuation & funding

Chartboost funding history

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
ACQUISITIONExit Dec 2024 LoopMe
ACQUISITIONExit May 2021 $250M $250M Zynga
SEEDEquity / VC Dec 2017 $0 Undisclosed
SECONDARYOther financing May 2015 $0 SharesPost Investment Mangement
SECONDARYOther financing Mar 2015 $0 Undisclosed
SERIES BEquity / VC Jan 2013 SK Telecom Ventures · Sequoia · TransLink Capital
SERIES AEquity / VC Oct 2011 SK Telecom · XG Ventures · TransLink Capital
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Financials

Workforce over time

Available workforce history. Financial fields without reported data are omitted.

YearEmployees
2026 50
2025 142
2024 142
2023 142
2022 142
2021 129
2020 128
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Growth signals

Chartboost website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Chartboost is 110K monthly website visits, down 8.3% over the last three months. Chartboost's team declined 62.7% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits110K 3-month web change-8.3% 1-year team growth-62.7%
Monthly website visits122 observations · Apr 2016–Jul 2026
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Comparisons

Chartboost compared with similar companies

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Capital deployed

Chartboost investments and acquisitions

Recent portfolio relationships for companies that also act as investors or acquirers.

Talent graph

Chartboost's talent

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Team profiled 58 named & role-tagged
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 2 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia Hidden — book a demo alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

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Investors

11 investors on Chartboost's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding and investor records. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 5 investors entered at this stage
SK Telecom
XG Ventures
TransLink Capital
Sequoia
SK Telecom Ventures
Series B+ 1 investor entered at this stage
SharesPost Investment Mangement
Other known 5 additional known investors
LoopMe
Zynga
Akihiko Okamoto
MicroVentures
Suleman Ali

Global footprint

Where Chartboost has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
5 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States75.7%
🇨🇳 China13.5%
🇪🇸 Spain5.4%
🇵🇪 Peru2.7%
🇵🇱 Poland2.7%
5 countries shown

In the news

Latest news about Chartboost

Recent press, funding announcements, and product moves mentioning Chartboost — open to read from the original sources.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Chartboost

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Chartboost on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

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Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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