Socialpoint

Socialpoint (formerly Social Point until 2019) is a Spanish video game developer based in Barcelona. Founded in October 2008 by Horacio Martos and Andrés Bou, the company specialises in free-to-play mobile and social network games, distributed across Android, iOS, Fire OS, and Facebook. Socialpoint was acquired by Take-Two Interactive in February 2017.
== History ==
Social Point was founded by Andrés Bou and Horacio Martos in 2008. Between 2008 and 2011, they launched 25 online social games. In January 2011, Social Point released the battle and strategy game Social Empires.
In November 2011, Social Point released Social Wars and a mobile version of Social Empires. In May 8, 2012, they announced the release of Dragon City for Facebook.
In July 2012, Social Point announced it had closed a Series B round of venture capital funding to the total of $10 million. TechCrunch reported that funding for the B.1 round was provided by Nauta Capital, Idinvest Partners, and the BBVA bank. 
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya published an article in October 2012 announcing that Social Point was an official collaborator in its master's program in Videogames Design.
Spanish newspaper Expansión printed an article in February 2013, stating that Greylock Partners had invested €2.9 million in Social Point in December 2012.
Social Point announced the releases of iOS and Android versions of Dragon City in March 21, 2013 and July 3, 2013, respectively. Also in 2014, they launched a new title, Monster Legends, for Facebook, iOS, and Android.
In 2013, Social Point announced its partnership with the mSchools Initiative, a multi-year, multi-faceted education initiative led by the Mobile World Capital Barcelona.
Social Point has confirmed that its staff would be involved in mentoring school children as part of the App Education Course element of the initiative: a computer science elective that was offered in Catalan high schools to teach students about application design and prototype development. 
In August 2013, VentureBeat named Social Point one of the 20 fastest growing mobile startups in the world.
According to the company, in 2015 it had a turnover of 85 million euros (50% coming from the United States) and its video games accumulated 180 million downloads.
In January 2016, the company launched a new title, World Chef, and two months later, Dragon Land.
In 2016, it generated $90 million in annual revenue and $20 million in profits according to parent company Take-Two Interactive.
In December 2019, Social Point was rebranded as Socialpoint and introduced a new logo.
== Games ==
Note: * indicates no longer available
* Social Empires* 
* Social Wars* 
* Dragon City
* Monster Legends
* Jurassic Hunter 
* World Chef 
* Dragon Land 
* Tasty Town 
* Word Life 
* Champions Destiny 
* League of Dragons
== Gallery ==
File:Socialpoint Logo.png|Logo from 2019 - present
File:Old Socialpoint logo.webp|Previous logo
File:Socialpoint mobile banner 2014.jpg
File:Socialpoint on Google Play.webp
File:Socialpoint loading screen 2014.jpg
== External Links ==
* Official website
* Socialpoint on Wikipedia
* Socialpoint on Smosh Wiki
Category:Dragon City