# AppLovin

> AppLovin is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Gaming and Fashion. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/applovin
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/applovin
- Website: https://www.applovin.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/applovin

AppLovin is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Gaming and Fashion. AppLovin’s leading marketing software provides mobile app developers a powerful, integrated set of solutions to grow their businesses. AppLovin’s technology platform enables developers to market, monetize, analyze and publish their apps. The company’s first-party content includes over 200+ popular, engaging apps and its technology brings thatcontent to millions of users around the world. AppLovin is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with several offices globally.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for AppLovin. Shizune tracks 9 team members at AppLovin. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/applovin?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gaming | 1 | 25% |
| Fashion | 1 | 25% |
| Computer | 1 | 25% |
| PC Games | 1 | 25% |
| Shopping | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 75% |
| Belarus | 1 | 25% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Herald Chen | President and CFO | 3 | — |
| Adam Foroughi | CEO, Co-Founder | 8 | — |
| Andrew Karam | Co-Founder and VP Product | 2 | — |
| Barry Dilouya | VP of Global Business Operations | 0 | — |
| John Krystynak | Founder & CTO | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Velocity | Velocity provides an AI-native monetization and distribution platform that analyzes real-time user intent from conversational software to deliver relevant ads and recommendations natively within user dialogues. The system converts multi-turn text prompts into privacy-safe signals, running real-time auctions to optimize ad revenue for developerswithout relying on cookies or browsing history. | $27M | Seed | Jul 08, 2026 |  |
| Flip | Flip is a social shopping app that connects customers to beauty products through video reviews.Flip’s Social Shopping platform blends the power of social media with the buying appeal of e-commerce. Customers receive pieces of clothing based on their preferences, likes, and interactions. The fitting room is flipped into the living room, where theytry on everything and share photos on the Flip social platform to get a thumbs up or down from friends on what looks best. | $144M | Series C | Apr 02, 2024 |  |
| Redemption Games | Redemption Games is a mobile gaming company that develops casual games. It offers hundreds of thousands of games in the app store and to be able to rise to the top requires a unique combination of skill and effort, from how the game is designed to how its marketed and operated as a live service. The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in Carlsbad, California. |  | Corporate Round | May 04, 2020 |  |
| Belka Games | Their mission is to bring joy and fun to millions of people throughout the world. That is why we create great, enjoyable and most challenging games that please and delight more than 40mln people all over the world. Belka Games is a social and mobile games development company from Belarus. |  | Corporate Round | Sep 06, 2019 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [WestCap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/westcap-sf) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Mubadala Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mubadala-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- Corner — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [NFX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfxcapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Red Dot Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/red-dot-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Stardom Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stardom-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does AppLovin invest in?

AppLovin invests primarily in Gaming, Fashion and Computer startups, most often at Corporate Round and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact AppLovin?

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### Who are the partners at AppLovin?

The team at AppLovin includes Herald Chen (President and CFO), Adam Foroughi (CEO, Co-Founder) and Andrew Karam (Co-Founder and VP Product), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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