Wildlife Studios
Funding History
| Series A · 12/2019 | $1.3B |
|---|---|
| Series B · 08/2020 | $3.0B |
About
Wildlife Studios is a São Paulo-based mobile game developer founded in 2011 by brothers Victor and Arthur Lazarte, originally under the name Top Free Games.
- CEO
- Arthur Lazarte
- Headquarters
- São Paulo
- Founded
- 2011
- Website
- wildlifestudios.com
- Employees
- 400
Overview
Wildlife Studios is a privately held Brazilian mobile game developer founded in 2011 in São Paulo by brothers Victor and Arthur Lazarte, originally under the name Top Free Games (TFG). The studio has published more than 60 mobile titles — including Sniper 3D, Tennis Clash, Zooba, War Machines and the Bobbie Goods coloring-game franchise — that have together been downloaded more than 4.7 billion times.
Wildlife raised a $60 million Series A round led by Benchmark in December 2019 at a $1.3 billion valuation, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and individual investors including former Facebook executive Javier Olivan and Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias. In August 2020 it raised a $120 million Series B round led by Vulcan Capital that valued the company at $3 billion. No further funding round or valuation update has been publicly disclosed since.
Between late 2022 and early 2024 the company went through multiple rounds of layoffs, canceled its non-mobile game projects (including an early-2022 push into blockchain/NFT gaming) to refocus entirely on mobile, and cofounder Victor Lazarte stepped down as CEO in mid-2023 amid that restructuring. Lazarte later became a general partner at venture firm Benchmark before leaving in 2025 to start his own fund; his brother and cofounder Arthur Lazarte became Wildlife's CEO in 2024.
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