Niantic (Series D)
Funding Details
- Awarder
- Inbox
- Date Award
- November 22, 2021
- Vertical
- AR technology
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
- Valuation
- $9,000,000,000
- Funding Amount:
- $300,000,000
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2011
- Traction
- Niantic has achieved significant user engagement with its games, particularly with Pokemon GO, which has broken records in terms of downloads and revenue.
- Organizations Involved
- Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, Alsop Louie Partners
- Founders
- John Hanke
- Company Description
- Niantic is a leading AR technology company, originally formed at Google in 2011 and became independent in 2015. It is known for its pioneering global-control game Ingress, the record-breaking AR game Pokemon GO, and the recently released Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
- Market
- Gaming
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Coinvestors
- Coatue Management, Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, Alsop Louie Partners