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Niantic

Niantic IPO

$9B
Series D Valuation, Nov 2021
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Niantic IPO date and status

2010
Founded
May 2025
MA Closed

Company details

Niantic was founded in 2010 by John Hanke. Niantic has not officially endorsed a plan to participate in an IPO.

Niantic operates a mobile gaming platform that combines augmented reality (AR), the physical world, and well-known character brands. Per Forge data, Niantic raised $770 million in funding over 6 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Nov 22, 2021, from a Series D round. Key investors include Spark Capital, Alsop Louie Partners, Coatue, and IVP.

These comments should not be interpreted to mean that the company is formally pursuing or foregoing an IPO.

Founded
2010
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA, United States
Founders
John Hanke, Phillip Keslin
Forge Price 1
Price not available
Market Activity 2
Limited
Last Matched Price
Post-Money Valuation 3
$9B
Total Funding
$630.15MM
Last Funding Round
Series D

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Niantic became a public company following its M&A on 05/29/2025 and is now a publicly traded company.

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Niantic became a public company following its M&A on 05/29/2025.

What is Niantic’s IPO price?

The IPO price of Niantic is not currently available.

When was Niantic founded?

Niantic was founded in 2010.

What is Niantic funding to date?

Niantic has raised $630.15MM to date.

Niantic major investors

Axiomatic
Battery Ventures
Causeway Media Partners
Crv
Institutional Venture Partners
Nico Wittenborn
Nintendo
Samsung Ventures

Niantic pre-IPO valuation and funding rounds

Funding history chart
Funding round and deals details
Funding Date Round Amount Raised Price per Share Post-Money Valuation 3 Key Investors
11/22/2021 Series D $150MM $58.68 $9B Coatue
Price per Share
$ xx.xx
Shares Outstanding
2,556,357
Liquidation Pref Order
1
Liquidation Pref As Multiplier
1.0x
Conversion Ratio
1.0x
Dividend Rate
8.0%
Cumulative
Non-cumulative
Participating
Non-participating
Participation Cap
--
Key Investors
Coatue
01/16/2019 Series C $244.55MM $30.09 $4B Axiomatic, Bonfire Ventures, Breyer Capital, Frontier Venture Capital, Ivp, Samsung Venture Investment
Price per Share
$ xx.xx
Shares Outstanding
8,126,813
Liquidation Pref Order
1
Liquidation Pref As Multiplier
1.0x
Conversion Ratio
1.0x
Dividend Rate
8.0%
Cumulative
Non-cumulative
Participating
Non-participating
Participation Cap
--
Key Investors
Axiomatic, Bonfire Ventures, Breyer Capital, Frontier Venture Capital, Ivp, Samsung Venture Investment
11/24/2017 Series B $200.6MM $23.69 $2.85B Dolby Family Ventures, Founders Fund, Javelin Venture, Meritech Capital Partners, Netease, Spark Capital, You & Mr Jones Brandtech Ventures
Price per Share
$ xx.xx
Shares Outstanding
8,469,420
Liquidation Pref Order
1
Liquidation Pref As Multiplier
1.0x
Conversion Ratio
1.0x
Dividend Rate
8.0%
Cumulative
Non-cumulative
Participating
Non-participating
Participation Cap
--
Key Investors
Dolby Family Ventures, Founders Fund, Javelin Venture, Meritech Capital Partners, Netease, Spark Capital, You & Mr Jones Brandtech Ventures
10/15/2015 Series A $35MM $1.00 $100MM Google Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, Nintendo, The Pokmon Company
Price per Share
$ xx.xx
Shares Outstanding
35,000,000
Liquidation Pref Order
1
Liquidation Pref As Multiplier
1.0x
Conversion Ratio
1.0x
Dividend Rate
8.0%
Cumulative
Non-cumulative
Participating
Non-participating
Participation Cap
--
Key Investors
Google Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, Nintendo, The Pokmon Company

Niantic IPO news and media highlights

Amazon partners with Niantic’s Peridot on launch of in-game shopping

Amazon announced today that it’s launching a new shopping platform called Amazon Anywhere. This new “immersive shopping experience” allows customers to purchase real items within virtual worlds like games. The company is rolling the Anywhere experience out first within Peridot, Niantic’s new AR pet simulator mobile game.

Niantic makes another acquisition, absorbing AR studio NZXR

Just a month after its last acquisition of the WebAR development platform 8th Wall, Niantic announced its purchase of New Zealand-based augmented reality studio NZXR today. These strategic acquisitions are part of Niantic’s overarching plan to build what it calls a “real-world metaverse,” which is dependent on AR rather than VR.

The metaverse is already here — and it’s full of Pokemon, says Niantic CEO John Hanke

John Hanke is the CEO of Niantic, a company that makes the wildly popular Pokémon Go mobile game in partnership with Nintendo and the Pokémon Company, but John actually started it as a skunkworks project when he was a Google Maps executive and spun it out. Pokémon Go and its predecessor Ingress are now the largest and most successful augmented reality games in the industry, which means John has long been at the forefront of what we’ve all started calling the metaverse: digital worlds that interact with the real world.

Niantic raises $300M at a $9B valuation to build the ‘real-world metaverse’

Niantic wants to develop technology that brings people closer to the outside world. Earlier this month, Niantic unveiled its Lightship AR Developer Kit (ARDK), which makes tools to develop AR games publicly available for free to anyone who has a basic knowledge of the Unity game engine.
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