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GLU MOBILE

Consumer Services · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2001 · IPO 2007 Unicorn

Global developer and publisher of freemium mobile games

Valuation
$2.20B
Market cap · 2026
Revenue
$653M
Latest reported FY
EBITDA
$111M
Latest reported FY
Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Investors

5 investors on GLU MOBILE's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series B+ 5 investors entered at this stage
Notable Capital
Scale Venture Partners
NEA
Time Warner
Globespan Capital Partners

GLU MOBILE mafia

Startups founded by GLU MOBILE alumni

Former GLU MOBILE employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

CapConnect+Est. 2020
Eric BallUnited States
Signal score81
NeonEst. 2016
Daniel BenevidesBrazil
Signal score76
TinyBytes GamesEst. 2014
ACAndres ConstantinidisChile
Signal score73
Burlingame StudiosEst. 2021
Jose AvilaUnited States
Signal score71
EseyeEst. 2007
Julian HardyUnited Kingdom
Signal score66
TapatapEst. 2007
Isaac BabbsUnited States
Signal score64
Rogue Games, Inc.Est. 2017
Mike DeLaetUnited States
Signal score64
KabamEst. 2006
Kevin ChouUnited States
Signal score63
Ares InteractiveEst. 2024
Niccolo MasiUnited States
Signal score62
GamefamEst. 2019
Wesley LevitonUnited States
Signal score61
Bombay PlayEst. 2017
Oliver JonesIndia
Signal score61
Pulse Q&AEst. 2018
Anand ThakerUnited States
Signal score60

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Global footprint

Where GLU MOBILE has talent and traffic

AI talent share
0.3% of workforce is AI talent
(1 of 365 staff)
Core AI00%
Other AI10.27%
Non-AI workforce36499.73%
Workforce by country
6 countries with
team presence
🇮🇳 India35.7%
🇺🇸 United States21.4%
🇨🇦 Canada21.4%
🇨🇳 China7.1%
🇸🇪 Sweden7.1%
Top 5 of 6 shown
Web traffic by country
10K monthly visits
across markets
🇬🇧 United Kingdom67%
🇺🇸 United States32%
🇸🇰 Slovakia2%
Top 3 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$8M patent portfolio · 11 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$8M
0.35% of market cap · 10.8× smaller than top peer Unity Technologies ($83M)
11 active patent families
Where GLU MOBILE innovates Data scienceVideo gameHuman–computer interactionInput deviceElectronic equipment

Where GLU MOBILE concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across GLU MOBILE and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

GLU MOBILE's 9 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where GLU MOBILE appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2006–2016. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

9 deals across GLU MOBILE's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where GLU MOBILE deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        GLU MOBILE's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        9 of 9 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about GLU MOBILE

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about GLU MOBILE 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.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

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

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