Kabam is an interactive entertainment company that develops and publishes massively multiplayer social games (MMSG’s), including the popular and critically praised Kingdoms of Camelot. The company’s studios focus on combining the best elements of traditional and social gaming to appeal to a growing audience of players looking for deeper, more engaging social games. The first wave of Kabam’s new games for Facebook and leading media sites have been widely recognized for their depth of play and social interaction. Before expanding into gaming, Kabam established itself as a leading social applications developer with entertainment and sports communities totaling more than 60 million users. Founded in 2006, Kabam has offices in San Francisco and Redwood City, Calif., Beijing, China, and Saarbruecken, Germany.

Kabam makes free-to-play games for social network

Social network

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s. The company focuses on developing "real games", or games with deeper gameplay mechanics akin to more traditional MMO

MMO

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s. In late 2009, Kabam launched Kingdoms of Camelot, one of the first successful strategy games on Facebook.

In October 2009, Kabam secured $5.5 million in Series B funding from Betfair

Betfair

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, the world’s largest Internet betting exchange, and Canaan Partners, which participated in the company’s Series A funding in 2007.

Founded in 2006 by Kevin Chou, Michael Li, Holly Liu and Wayne Chan, the company originally focused on building community apps for sports and entertainment fans, amassing more than 25 million users on Facebook

Facebook

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and other social networks.

Kabam had acquired WonderHill and has expanded from 100 to 200 employees.