Team17

The Wakefield, England-based Team17 Group plc creates and publishes video games. In December 1990, British publisher 17-Bit Software merged with Swedish developer Team 7 to form the company. Michael Robinson, Martyn Brown, Debbie Bestwick, Andreas Tadic, Rico Holmes, and Peter Tuleby made up and ran the two companies back then.

Later, Bestwick was promoted to, and still is, Team17's CEO. Success with Andy Davidson's Worms in 1995 led to the development of over 20 installments in the franchise, which remains the studio's primary development output to this day. The studio's first game, Full Contact (1991) for the Amiga, was followed by several other number-one releases on that platform.

In 2010, Bestwick led a management buyout that saw Robinson and Brown leave Team17 and leave Bestwick in sole charge of the organization. Team17 launched an independent video game publishing company in 2013, and the company now has its own headquarters in Nottingham. Light (2013) was the company's first video game to be released.

After receiving a sizable investment from Lloyds Development Capital in September 2016, Team17 took many steps to grow the company, including acquiring Mouldy Toof Studios, the studio responsible for Team17's 2015 release of The Escapists, and adding many additional key employees. The IPO was released in May 2018 and the company is now a publicly traded business on the Alternative Investment Market with an estimated valuation of £230 million. In 2019, Team17's two locations are home to 200 employees.

Founded: December 7, 1990
Headquarters: Wakefield, England
Website: team17.com