Niantic, Inc.

Niantic, Inc.
Formerly	Niantic Labs; (2010–2015);
Company type	Private
Industry	Video games; Technology;
Genre	Mobile applications; mobile games; alternate reality games; augmented reality games; location-based games;
Founded	2010
Founder	John Hanke
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people	John Hanke (CEO); Dennis Hwang (art director); Tatsuo Nomura (director);
Products	See § Products
Number of employees	~800
Parent	Google (2010–2015)
Subsidiaries	Niantic Spatial
Website	nianticlabs.com

Niantic, Inc. (/naɪˈæntɪk/ ny-AN-tik) 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.

Niantic has additional offices in Bellevue, Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Lawrence, Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and Zürich.


Formerly	Niantic Labs (2010–2015)
Company type	Private
Industry	Video games Technology
Genre	Mobile applications mobile games alternate reality games augmented reality games location-based games
Founded	2010 (2010)
Founder	John Hanke
Headquarters	San Francisco, California , U.S.
Key people	John Hanke (CEO) Dennis Hwang (art director) Tatsuo Nomura (director)
Products	See § Products
Number of employees	~800
Parent	Google (2010–2015)
Subsidiaries	Niantic Spatial
Website	nianticlabs.com