Company overview

Exploding Kittens is a leading game and entertainment company with a mission to inspire people to connect, laugh, and play fun games in the physical world. After initially seeking to raise $10K through Kickstarter, the Exploding Kittens campaign raised $8.7M in 30 days from 219,000 backers. To date, Exploding Kittens is the #1 most-backed project in Kickstarter history and has sold over 18 million games. Started by former Xbox game designer Elan Lee and The Oatmeal’s founder Matthew Inman, Exploding Kittens and its family of games seek to reshape traditional game night into an entertaining person-to-person experience. Today, there are nearly 30 games available for purchase as well as an Exploding Kittens mobile app that is one of the top 30 premium games on both iOS, Android, and the Nintendo Switch console, as well as a free-to-play app, Kitty Letter.
Founded in 2015
Los Angeles, California, USA
66 employees (16 in marketing)
31% recommend to a friend
47% positive business outlook

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People

Hiring activity

Open marketing jobs over time

1 open now

Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount +4.8% year over year

Funding

Total funding

$41.4M

Last raise

$30M

Series Unknown, 6 years ago

Funding history

Oct 2019

Venture Round Exploding Kittens · $30M

Feb 2015

Product Crowdfunding Exploding Kittens · $8.8M

Jan 2015

Seed Round Exploding Kittens · $2.7M

Audience

Monthly website visitors
530.3K
Month over month0%
Quarter over quarter0%
Top sourceSearch (30.7%)
Ad budget per month$0.0
Average search rank52.3
Traffic source mix
Search
30.7%
Direct
23.8%
Referral
3.1%
Social
1.9%
Paid referral
0.4%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

8.8K

12-mo growth

+43.5%

Monthly growth

+5.5%

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