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Team Behind Finnish Success Story Supercell Launches Nordic Startup Fund
- dirtyaura 13y ago"... Applifier, which was acquired by a bigger American software tool developer Unity Technologies for an undisclosed sum in March." Unity was founded in Denmark and to my understanding it still has the biggest development team in Denmark. Surely they have offices and likely a corporation entity in US, but saying that Unity is American software tool developer is like saying Sony is American device manufacturer.
- _delirium 13y agoYes, to my understanding the SF office is mainly a sales/business office, while engineering/technical work remains based in Copenhagen, with some bits outsourced elsewhere (Ukraine, China, etc.). I believe the main rationale for the SF office is that it's closer to a number of potential clients and investors (and events like GDC), but operations weren't moved there. If anything they seem to be doubling down on Copenhagen as the engineering site, recently moving to a bigger new space in the city center.