Walter Driver, CEO of Scopely.
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Mobile game publisher Scopely raises $55 million to drive global expansion

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Scopely, the publisher of mobile games like Yahtzee and The Walking Dead: Road to Survival, has raised $55 million in a new round of funding led by Greycroft Growth Fund.

Scopely's Yahtzee with Buddies
Scopely’s Yahtzee with Buddies

The money will help the company expand aggressively in the $36 billion global mobile game market as the forces of consolidation make it tougher for smaller companies to survive. Over the past 18 months, Scopely has grown its revenues more than 550 percent, said Walter Driver, CEO and co-founder at Scopely, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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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.