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GLU MOBILE

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

Global developer and publisher of freemium mobile games

Valuation $2.20B
Revenue $653M
EBITDA $111M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Talent graph

GLU MOBILE's talent

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Employees mapped 365 incl. 1 AI specialist
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 27 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

5 investors on GLU MOBILE's cap table

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

Series B+ 5 investors entered at this stage
NEA
Notable Capital
Scale Venture Partners
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.

Gen.G esportsEst. 2017
Kevin ChouUnited States
Signal score86
NeonEst. 2016
Daniel BenevidesBrazil
Signal score82
CapConnect+Est. 2020
Eric BallUnited States
Signal score76
Pulse Q&AEst. 2018
Anand ThakerUnited States
Signal score74
Ares InteractiveEst. 2024
Niccolo MasiUnited States
Signal score73
TinyBytes GamesEst. 2014
ACAndres ConstantinidisChile
Signal score69
EseyeEst. 2007
Julian HardyUnited Kingdom
Signal score67
Burlingame StudiosEst. 2021
BGBarlow GilmoreUnited States
Signal score65
Rogue Games, Inc.Est. 2017
Mike DeLaetUnited States
Signal score64
Knock KnockEst. 2018
Andrew FridayUnited States
Signal score64
Bombay PlayEst. 2017
Oliver JonesIndia
Signal score62
MatchdayEst. 2022
Sebastien de HalleuxUnited States
Signal score62

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Global footprint

Where GLU MOBILE has talent and traffic

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
2.2K monthly visits
across markets
🇬🇧 United Kingdom95.5%
🇺🇸 United States4.5%
Top 2 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$7M patent portfolio · 11 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$7M
0.31% of market cap · 22.9× smaller than top peer Life360 ($157M)
11 active patent families
Where GLU MOBILE innovates Data scienceElectronic equipmentGraphicsHead movementsHuman–computer interaction

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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        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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