Last deal

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

01.01.2016

Date

3

all rounds

$263.3M

Total amount

Financing round

General

About Company
Machine Zone develops mobile games in various genres for Android, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch platforms.

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Also Known As

Addmired, MZ, Machine Zone, Inc.

founded date

01.01.2008

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

The California-based company, founded in 2008, offers multiplayer mobile games that unite players from around the world in one gaming world. Its real-time engagement engine powers everything from player acquisition to real-time game operations, allowing for continuous optimization of player engagement and experience. Some of its most successful games include Game of War, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire. Machine Zone was acquired by AppLovin in May 2020.
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M&A Details
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Acquired by

AppLovin

announced date

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3
Gabriel Leydon
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Gabriel Leydon

Gabe Leydon has been called “the man on the Iron Throne of gaming.” Under his direction as co-founder and CEO, Machine Zone has changed the face of mobile gaming with Game of War — Fire Age, an immersive parallel chat-speak game that translates more than 32 languages, allowing global players to play at the same time. It has been among the top-grossing games since its launch in 2013, eclipsing even Candy Crush and Clash of Clans; to promote it, Leydon created a Super Bowl ad starring supermodel Kate Upton, which is still being talked about. Prior to co-founding Addmired, he spent seven years in the coin-op arcade business at Atari, Tsunami Visual and Global VR, and before that, he designed the America’s Army arcade game, the first arcade game for the U.S. Army.

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1

Halbert Nakagawa

Employee Profiles
372

Neal Nakagawa

Senior director, media buying - mz

Andy Reimann

Tools engineering lead

Heather Lew-Norman

Senior project manager

Lonnie Huang

Associate general counsel at machine zone, inc

Caleb Tolman

Staff data science

Eduardo Baraf

Executive Producer, Product Lead

Mike Gargano

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Laura Lee

Outsourcing art manager

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