Unity Technologies

Unity Software Inc., which does business as Unity Technologies, is an American software company headquartered at 116 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco, California. It develops and operates Unity, a cross-platform game engine used to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The engine was first announced and released in June 2005 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X game engine and has since been extended to desktop, mobile, console, augmented reality and virtual reality platforms; it is widely used for iOS and Android mobile game development and for indie game development.

The platform is organized around Create Solutions, a set of tools and services for building, shipping and running real-time 2D and 3D content, and Grow Solutions, which help customers acquire, engage and monetize users. Unity also offers enterprise support and consumption services, professional services such as consulting, platform integration, training and custom application and workflow development, and advertising and game publishing services. Additional services and products have included Unity Ads, Unity Analytics, Unity Cloud Build, Unity Asset Store, Unity Multiplayer, Unity Certification, Unity Collaborate and Unity Performance Reporting. Named subsidiaries include ChilliConnect, deltaDNA, Multiplay, Vivox, Artomatix, Ziva Dynamics, ironSource and Interactive Data Visualization, Inc.

Beyond video games, Unity technology has been adopted in film and television, automotive, architecture, engineering and construction, retail, manufacturing, medical science, and by the United States Armed Forces. The Unity Industry offering targets 3D applications in these non-gaming sectors. Recent engine releases include Unity 6.x with Unity 6.5 available and Unity 7 announced as the next major version of the editor and runtime.

Founding story

The company was founded on 2 August 2004 in Copenhagen, Denmark as Over the Edge I/S (trading as Over the Edge Entertainment) by David Helgason (CEO), Nicholas Francis (chief creative officer) and Joachim Ante (CTO). Its first game, GooBall, released in 2005, failed commercially, but the founders saw value in the internal development tools they had built and shifted the company's focus to producing an engine for other developers, with the stated aim of democratizing game development. The company renamed itself Unity Technologies in 2007.

Business model

Unity licenses its engine and platform through subscription plans that range from a free tier to paid plans, sells creator assets through the Unity Asset Store, and provides enterprise support, consumption services and professional services. It also operates advertising, monetization and game publishing services that generate revenue alongside its creation tools.

Revenue is derived from Create Solutions subscriptions and enterprise/professional services, and from Grow Solutions, including advertising, user acquisition and monetization products. Reported revenue was approximately $1.85 billion in 2025 and about $1.8 billion in 2024, with an operating loss of $479 million and a net loss of $401.5 million in 2025.

Traction

Unity reported roughly 1 million registered developers in April 2012, of whom about 300,000 used the engine monthly, and more than 5.5 million registered users by 2016. Games built with Unity include Pokémon Go, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Cult of the Lamb, PEAK, Blue Prince and Schedule 1. Last-twelve-month revenue was reported at about $2.1 billion with $1.5 billion gross profit as of August 2026.

Latest developments

Unity 6.5 is available and Unity 7 has been announced as the next major version of the editor and runtime, building on foundations shipped across Unity 6.x. In November 2025 Unity signed a partnership with Epic Games to bring Unity games into Fortnite; in April 2026 it extended a multi-year enterprise agreement with Meta covering VR developer support and monetization across Meta's VR ecosystem; and in August 2026 it sold its Supersonic publishing business to Tripledot Studios. Recent financials show Q2 FY26 revenue of $546.47 million and a net loss of $23.61 million.