Niantic, Inc.

Niantic, Inc.
Formerly
  • Niantic Labs
  • (2010–2015)
Company typePrivate
Industry
Genre
Founded2010; 14 years ago (2010)
FounderJohn Hanke
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
U.S.
Key people
ProductsSee § Products
Number of employees
~800[1]
ParentGoogle (2010–2015)
Subsidiaries
  • Escher Reality
  • Matrix Mill
  • Seismic Games
  • Sensible Object
  • Lowkey
  • 8th Wall
  • NZXR
Websitenianticlabs.com

Niantic, Inc. (/naɪˈæntɪk/ ny-AN-tik)[2] is an American software development company based in San Francisco. Niantic is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games Ingress and Pokémon Go. The company was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. The company became an independent entity in October 2015 when Google restructured under Alphabet Inc.[3] Niantic has additional offices in Bellevue, Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zürich.[4]

  1. ^ Patel, Nilay (December 14, 2021). "The metaverse is already here — and it's full of Pokemon, says Niantic CEO John Hanke". The Verge. Archived from the original on April 12, 2022. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
  2. ^ "Niantic Engineering: Building Planet-Scale Augmented Reality". Niantic. June 11, 2018. Archived from the original on April 4, 2019. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  3. ^ "Niantic Labs, Maker Of Ingress, Spun Out Of Google As Its Own Company". TechCrunch. August 12, 2015. Archived from the original on September 9, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  4. ^ "Niantic, Inc". LinkedIn. December 22, 2021. Retrieved August 9, 2023.