Cave (company)

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CAVE Interactive Co., Ltd.

CAVE's headquarters in Meguro, Tokyo
Native name	株式会社ケイブ
Company type	Public
Traded as	TYO: 3760
Industry	Video games
Founded	June 15, 1994
Headquarters	Meguro, Tokyo , Japan
Key people	Kenichi Takano (Representative Director, President and CEO) Tsuneki Ikeda (CCO) Shinobu Yagawa (Programmer, Director, Designer)
Products	Bullet hell shoot 'em ups
Total assets	JP¥ 1,094,000,000 (FY 2020)[1]
Number of employees	97 (2020)
Subsidiaries	Beads Mania (merged with Cave on June 1, 2008) Mini4WD Networks Co., Ltd. (44.8% stake) Declease ltd. 2014 (9.2% stake)
Website	cave.co.jp

CAVE Interactive Co., Ltd.^[a] is a Japanese video game company founded in 1994 by former employees of Toaplan following its bankruptcy. They are known primarily for their "bullet hell" shoot 'em ups; from 1995 up to 2013, CAVE was one of the most prolific shoot 'em up developers in the Japanese market. Alongside this, CAVE has produced a variety of other types games for arcades, home consoles, PCs, and smartphones, also dating back to 1995.

"CAVE" is an acronym for "Computer Art Visual Entertainment".

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