Real-world AR games and spatial computing — explore the world together
Gaming📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2010
Current Valuation
$9.0B
as of 2021-Q4
UNICORN
Niantic — founded by John Hanke as a Google-internal AR project before spinning out in 2015 — is the AR pioneer behind Pokémon GO, Ingress, and Pikmin Bloom. In March 2025 Niantic sold its gaming business to Scopely for $3.5B and refocused as Niantic Spatial, a visual-positioning-system platform for real-world AR.
Company Profile
CEO
John Hanke
Founded
2010
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
~700
Total Raised
$770M
Growth
The company behind the $9B 2021 mark no longer exists in that form: Niantic sold its games division — Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom and Monster Hunter Now — to Scopely for $3.5B in 2025, and the remaining business, Niantic Spatial, is a geospatial-AI company capitalised with roughly $250M. Treat the $9B as a historical mark on a different company.
Last Round
Series D — $300M (Dec 2021) · Lead: Coatue
IPO Status
no imminent plans
Fundraising Status
Series D · $300M · 4y 8mo ago
no imminent plansTotal raised $770M
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$12
Secondary price return by period
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Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series D
$300M
Dec 2021
Coatue
—
Founders & Key People
John Hanke
Investors
Coatue · Google · Spark Capital · Founders Fund · NetEase
Products
Niantic Spatial (AR mapping/VPS)
Pokémon GO (sold to Scopely 2025)
Lightship AR platform
Competitors
Apple Vision Pro · Snap AR · Meta Reality Labs · Google AR
GamingARSpatial ComputingDecacorn
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2021-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.