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Clash Royale maker Supercell invests $4.2 million in mobile game studio Trailmix

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Clash Royale maker Supercell has invested $4.2 million in mobile game studio Trailmix, a startup created by two former King game developers. Supercell has about 250 people, a very small number given its value above $10 billion. To stay small, the company has begun making investments in other mobile game studios such as Frogmind.

The London-based Trailmix’s leaders are Carolin Krenzer and Tristan Clark, who helped King set up its studio in London in 2012, when Candy Crush Saga was just three months old and was still running on just a browser. They left in the middle of last year, after Activision acquired King for $5.9 billion and had more than 2,000 people.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.