Sulake - timeline

2000

May, 2000

Sulake (Labs Oy) founded.

September 22, 2000

Hotelli Kultakala officially launched (association with Elisa).

2001

February, 2001

Habbo Hotel UK officially launched.

September 03, 2001

Timo Soininen starts as managing director.

October 25, 2001

Habbo Hotel Switzerland officially launched (association with Orange).

2002

October 03, 2002

Hotelli Kultakala joins habbo chain and is now habbo Hotel Finland.

2003

February - December 2003

Four hotels launched this year, respectivily Japan (association with ), Spain, Italy and Sweden.

September 2003

Habbogroup.com now redirects to sulake.com.

2004

February - December 2004

Eight hotels launched this year, respectivily Netherlands (association with TTG), Germany, Canada, US, Australia, France (association with M6), Singapore and Denmark.

2005

January 19, 2005

Benchmark Capital, 3i and Elisa invest €18 million in Sulake.

October 13, 2005

Habbo Islands for the N-gage platform announced.

2006

March - October 2006

Three hotels launched this year, respectivily Brazil, China and Russia.

July 10, 2006

Movida Group, a SoftBank and Asian Groove joint venture, invest € 6.000.000 in Habbo.

November 2006

Sulake moves into its own office building.

2007

April 04, 2007

Sulake acquires Finland's leading social networking service IRC-Galleria.

August 24, 2007

Chinese hotel closure.

2008

June 26, 2008

Habbo reaches 100 million registered avatars worldwide.

2009

February 09, 2009

Russian hotel closure.

April 16, 2009

Japanese hotel closure.

November 09, 2009

Bobba Bar, virtual meeting place on mobile phones, gets released officially (iPhone version available November 5th), after being in beta since April 7.