{"id":69667,"date":"2019-08-22T03:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/la-based-gaming-company-scopely-expands-in-spain-and-ireland\/"},"modified":"2019-08-22T03:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T10:10:37","slug":"la-based-gaming-company-scopely-expands-in-spain-and-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/la-based-gaming-company-scopely-expands-in-spain-and-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"LA-based gaming company, Scopely, expands in Spain and Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles-based gaming company Scopely<\/a> is expanding its geographical footprint in Spain and Ireland.<\/p>\n

The company is building out its Barcelona offices, tripling its office space and planning to significantly expand its 100-person-strong team in the city. Meanwhile, Scopely <\/span><\/a> is also planning to invest heavily in expanding its strategy-focused game studio, DIGIT, <\/a>in Dublin.<\/p>\n

Scopely didn\u2019t say how many jobs it would be adding in either location.<\/p>\n

The company has now hit lifetime revenue of more than $1 billion across its franchises and recently launched \u201cStar Trek Fleet Command\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cLooney Tunes World of Mayhem.\u201d\u00a0Scopely also has licenses to develop games for World Wrestling Entertainment and The Walking Dead franchise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to expand our European footprint to accommodate our exponential growth,\u201d said Javier Ferreira, co-CEO of Scopely, in a statement. \u201cI am excited to further lean in to the Barcelona market, which has top-quality talent. The same is true in Dublin with top tech talent flocking to the area, and both offices have amassed impressive highly-specialized expertise. Our Dublin and Barcelona teams play a critical role in the Scopely journey, and we are actively hiring across both markets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company also plans to double its footprint in its hometown of Los Angeles in 2020.<\/p>\n

The company has raised more than $250 million in financing to date, from investors including Greenspring Associates, <\/span><\/a> Greycroft <\/span><\/a> Partners, Revolution Growth, Evolution Media Partners, Highland Capital Partners, Horizons Ventures, Sands Capital Ventures, The Chernin Group, Take-Two Interactive, Kobe Bryant, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Guber, Jimmy Iovine and Brendan Iribe.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles-based gaming company Scopely is expanding its geographical footprint in Spain and Ireland. The company is building out its Barcelona offices, tripling its office space and planning to significantly expand its 100-person-strong team in the city. Meanwhile, Scopely is also planning to invest heavily in expanding its strategy-focused game studio, DIGIT, in Dublin…. Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t