The company received seed funding from Y Combinator during its early days as a startup.

[3] On 21 March 2012, Zynga announced that it would acquire OMGPop for $180 million, saying "It is our mission to provide consumers with fun, free games.

[citation needed] While this had been reported as the closure of OMGPop, the omgpop.com website remained active.

[7][8] However, in a statement issued by parent company Zynga in July 2013, it was announced that the site would close on 30 September 2013,[9] with four games – Cupcake Corner, Gem Rush, Pool World Champ and Snoops – being phased out on 29 August 2013.

[10][9] Around 2013, Zynga suffered a large data breach exposing over 7 million email addresses and plain text passwords for OMGPop which were later leaked in 2019.