Ballbreaker Kungsholmen

What Ballbreaker Kungsholmen does

Ballbreaker Kungsholmen is a Stockholm-based gaming and entertainment center that operates a multi-format physical venue offering racing games, billiards, bowling, shuffleboard, and a VR experience. The company was founded in 2000 and operates as a private for-profit business with 51-100 employees, indicating a sizeable single-site operation in the Kungsholmen district of Stockholm, Sweden. The business model is a location-based entertainment venue serving walk-in consumers and likely groups (corporate events, parties, casual social outings) through a combination of per-game/per-lane fees, time-based pricing, and ancillary food and beverage revenue typical of the bowling/entertainment center category. The service mix — spanning traditional games (billiards, bowling, shuffleboard), electronic racing simulators, and VR — suggests a strategy of broad demographic appeal rather than specialization in a single format.

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Name

Ballbreaker Kungsholmen

Website

https://ballbreaker.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Ballbreaker Kungsholmen is a Stockholm-based gaming center founded in 2000 that offers racing games, billiards, bowling, shuffleboard, and VR experiences to walk-in consumers and groups.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Entertainment Venue / Gaming Center

NAICS

Amusement Parks and Arcades (7131), Bowling Centers (71395)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Coin-Operated Entertainment (Pinball, Crane/Claw, Jukebox, Darts/Billiards) (MPAEAJAF)

Keywords

• Bowling entertainment
• Billiards hall
• Gaming center
• VR experience venue
• Recreation activities

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

Ballbreaker Kungsholmen is a physical gaming and entertainment center located in Stockholm, Sweden. The venue offers a range of recreational activities including racing games, billiards, bowling, shuffleboard, and VR experiences for individual consumers and groups seeking leisure entertainment.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bowling Bowling lanes and related bowling services for individual customers and groups at the Stockholm venue.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Others

• QubicaAMF: QubicaAMF is one of the two largest global bowling equipment manufacturers, supplying scoring systems, lanes, and pinsetters. It is a relevant infrastructure supplier and indirect comparable for bowling venue economics in the Nordic market.
• Brunswick Bowling: Brunswick is a leading manufacturer and supplier of bowling equipment, lanes, and pinsetters. As Ballbreaker likely operates Brunswick equipment, Brunswick is a relevant ecosystem supplier and benchmark for bowling-specific capex and venue economics.

Direct peers

• Main Event Entertainment: Main Event operates family entertainment centers featuring bowling, laser tag, billiards, arcade games, and food service. Its multi-format venue model and target demographic (groups, families, corporate events) closely mirror Ballbreaker Kungsholmen's mix of activities.
• Pinstripes: Pinstripes operates venues combining bowling, bocce, Italian dining, and private event space. It is a comparable premium multi-activity social entertainment concept with similar revenue mix (bowling lanes + casual games + group events), though skewed more toward dining.
• Lucky Strike Entertainment (formerly Bowlero): Lucky Strike Entertainment is the world's largest operator of bowling and entertainment centers, combining bowling with arcades, billiards, food and beverage. It is the closest direct comparable to Ballbreaker's bowling-plus-arcade-plus-billiards model, just at vastly greater scale and with corporate ownership structure.

Broad incumbents

• Dave & Buster's: Dave & Buster's is a publicly traded broad incumbent in the eat-and-play entertainment category, offering arcade games, sports viewing, bowling in some locations, and full dining. It represents the upper-scale, publicly visible archetype of what Ballbreaker is at smaller scale.

Emerging players

• SPiN (Ping Pod / Social Table Tennis Clubs): SPiN/PingPod operates social table-tennis and game-focused venues that combine casual sport with food and beverage in a modern format. It represents an emerging format of casual social game venues — analogous to Ballbreaker's billiards and shuffleboard elements but using table tennis as the anchor activity.
• VR arcade operators (e.g., Zero Latency): Zero Latency and similar VR-arcade operators run free-roam VR experiences in dedicated venues. They are an emerging-format peer specifically for Ballbreaker's VR component, illustrating how a standalone VR venue can scale, and what Ballbreaker might compete with or partner to extend its VR offering.

Regional players

• Strike Bowling Bar: Strike is a Swedish bowling bar and entertainment chain with multiple locations across the country. As a Stockholm-market competitor offering bowling plus bar and casual entertainment, it is a directly relevant regional peer for benchmarking concept, pricing, and customer base.
• House of Bowling (Sweden): House of Bowling operates modern bowling and entertainment venues in Sweden, including locations that combine bowling with food and bar service. It is a direct regional competitor and benchmark for what the Stockholm bowling-and-entertainment market supports in terms of concept and pricing.

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Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

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Investors

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M&A

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