Unity Software Inc. (Unity) provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices, among others.
Unity is the world's leading platform for creating and growing interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content and experiences. The company’s comprehensive set of software, including AI solutions, supports creators through the entire development lifecycle a...
Unity Software Inc. (Unity) provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run, and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices, among others.
Unity is the world's leading platform for creating and growing interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content and experiences. The company’s comprehensive set of software, including AI solutions, supports creators through the entire development lifecycle as they build, run, and grow immersive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. The company’s platform is used by creators of all types - such as developers, artists, and designers - to build content for various industries, including gaming, retail, automotive, architecture, engineering, and construction.
The company’s platform consists of two complementary sets of solutions: Create Solutions and Grow Solutions which together comprise its strategic portfolio surrounding the Unity Engine, Cloud and Monetization.
Create Solutions
The company’s Create Solutions are a robust set of tools and services used to build, ship and run high-definition, real-time 2D and 3D content. Designed for developers, these tools and services are used across a range of industries ranging from games to aerospace, construction to retail, medical to manufacturing, and beyond. Create Solutions includes the company’s custom real-time 3D engine and development environment with a high-definition render pipeline; AI-driven content creation and workflow enhancements, graphics, animation, and audio tools; navigation, networking, user interface tools and more. Enhanced by cloud services including asset management, DevOps tools and multiplayer game support, creators can leverage the company’s products and extensibility to easily edit, run, and iterate interactive RT3D and 2D experiences that can be created once and deployed to a variety of platforms.
Grow Solutions
The company’s Grow Solutions are its Monetization products, which offer customers the ability to grow and engage their user base and monetize their content—from 2D puzzle games to multiplayer, multi-platform games, or other 3D interactive content—irrespective of whether the content was created in Unity. Many of the company’s customers create games and applications with the purpose of building a profitable business. The company helps its customers grow their businesses in the mobile app ecosystem by offering a comprehensive suite of products designed to help customers successfully scale their businesses, including its mediation platform, ad networks, and offerwall. In addition, Supersonic from Unity is the company’s publishing solution, which allows small studios and independent developers who require expertise in publishing their mobile games to launch their apps and maximize their commercial success, through the use of a combination of tools, full transparency, and a team of industry experts. Finally, Aura from Unity enables app developers to connect with users through a unique channel that offers on-device app discovery, while allowing telecom operators to better engage and monetize their users throughout the device lifecycle.
Customers
The company’s globally diverse customers range from the largest enterprises to mid-market companies, to government and non-profit institutions, to mid-sized, small, and independent businesses and individuals across a variety of industries. The company has a very large, active, and highly engaged global community of RT3D creators.
Competition
Create Solutions: The company primarily competes against proprietary game engines built in-house by large game studios, as well as Cocos2d-x (Chukong Technologies), Godot, and Unreal Engine (Epic Games), which offer game development tools primarily serving the PC games and mobile games sectors, and, in the case of Unreal Engine (Epic Games), industries beyond gaming.
Grow Solutions: The company operates in a fragmented ecosystem composed of privately held companies up to select divisions of large, well-established companies. Examples of these large companies are Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Tencent. Most of these companies are also the company’s partners and customers. Examples of other companies the company competes against include AppLovin, Voodoo, and Digital Turbine.
Intellectual Property
As of December 31, 2023, the company had 246 issued utility patents in the United States that expire between 2029 and 2041, 47 issued utility patents in non-U.S. jurisdictions, and 90 utility patent applications (including 6 provisional applications and 16 active PCT applications) pending in the United States and globally. As of December 31, 2023, the company also had 1 registered design patent in the United States, 36 registered design patents in non-U.S. jurisdictions and 4 pending design patent applications, 1 of which is in the United States.
History
The company was founded as Over the Edge Entertainment in Denmark in 2004. The company was reorganized as a Delaware corporation in 2009 as Unity Software Inc.