Challengermode AB
Stockholm area, Sweden · est. 2014 · website ↗
Challengermode was founded in 2014 with the mission to make esports truly accessible for regular gamers. Today we're building a platform that provides the fundamental online esports infrastructure for all relevant stakeholders within the ecosystem. With 2.5 billion people world-wide playing computer games and hundreds of millions of people watching professional esports tournaments monthly, Challengermode's platform is becoming the place for regular gamers to congregate, practice or compete in…
The auditor flagged going concern in the FY2024 accounts: a formal statement of material uncertainty about whether the company can keep operating for the next year. It is the auditor’s judgement, not a prediction, and companies do recover from it.
Filed financials
Filed with a public registryFiled with Bolagsverket. The legal entity, not the group.
| Fiscal year | Revenue | Result | Employees | Cash | Equity | Total assets | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 19 MSEK | -36 MSEK | 28 | 6.4 MSEK | 10 MSEK | 41 MSEK | Going concern note |
| FY2023 | 12 MSEK | -65 MSEK | 41 | 25 MSEK | 47 MSEK | 61 MSEK | None |
| FY2022 | 7.2 MSEK | - | - | - | - | 45 MSEK | None |
| FY2021 | 5.1 MSEK | - | - | - | - | 81 MSEK | None |
No open roles right now
Challengermode AB's careers feed was empty when I last checked.
Challengermode AB’s careers page ↗Registered business activity (SNI)
Filed with a public registryStandard industry classification codes as filed with Bolagsverket.
Open source activity
Read from what they publishFrom the company’s own linked GitHub organization, @challengermode.
Everything I could know about Challengermode AB
A blank is a gap in my coverage.
Company health
Filed with a public registry- SurvivalRunway ~2 moLoss-making in its latest filed accounts (FY2024). cash 6.4 MSEK, loss 36 MSEK over the year (3.0 MSEK/month), revenue 19 MSEK, revenue growth 58%. Cash divided by that burn is ~2 months of runway. Filed facts, but the burn is the accounting result rather than true cash flow, and a funding round raised since the filing date does not show here yet.
- Age12 years oldFounded 2014, 12 years ago.
- CapitalSeries ASelf-reported to the startup directory.
- Distress flagsNo data for this company yet
- GrowthShrinking, -13 (-32%)Average employees filed with Bolagsverket went from 41 in 2023 to 28 in 2024, a change of -13 people (-32%). This is a fiscal-year average from filed accounts, so it lags: it says whether the company has been adding people, not whether a role is open today. Filed revenue FY2021 5,093 KSEK to FY2024 18,548 KSEK, across 4 filed years.
What you'd build and work with
Read from their job ads- Building (problem type)No data for this company yet
- StackNo data for this company yet
- Role shapeNo data for this company yet
- SectorGamesMapped from the industry tags this company reported to the startup directory (entertainment, gaming). Self-reported, so it is the company's own claim about its market.
- Engineering reputationRead from what they publishGitHub: challengermode4 public repos, 123 stars, last push 6 weeks ago.
Hiring practicalities
Read from their job ads- Open roles0 open0 roles, sourced from the company's own Teamtailor board.
- Working languageEnglish siteI hold no job-ad text for this company, so this is read from their own site: their website reads as English. That is a proxy, not a statement about the working language. Checked against the 222 companies where I have both, it agrees about 9 times in 10, and the way it fails is a company running an English site while hiring only in Swedish.
Fit and mission
Worked out from facts I hold- Fit (chaos or structure)Balancedfounded 2014 (12 years ago), ~30 employees, Series A stage. Age, size and stage combine into the read.
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Work here?
Nobody has answered yet. Same questions for every company.
Answer for this companyOn the map
Krossgatan 22, 162 50 Vällingby
Address as filed with Bolagsverket.
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Wrong about Challengermode AB?
The address, the headcount, the logo, a role that closed. Tell me which and I will fix it.