Niantic
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| Niantic, Inc. ナイアンティック | ||||
 Niantic logo | ||||
| Founded | 2010 | |||
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| Headquarters | San Francisco, California | |||
| Type | Private | |||
| Owner(s) | Google (2010–2015) | |||
| Industry | Video games | |||
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Niantic, Inc. (Japanese: ナイアンティック Niantic) is an American game development company best known for developing the augmented reality games Pokémon GO and Ingress. It was founded as Niantic Labs in 2010 as a startup within Google by John Hanke, who has remained the company's CEO since.[1] In August 2015, the company announced plans to become independent, which it did in October 2015, as Niantic, Inc.[2][3]
Following the announcement of Pokémon GO in September 2015, the company announced it had received an investment of up to $30 million from The Pokémon Company, Nintendo, and Google.
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Non-Pokémon games
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- Field Trip
- Ingress
- Endgame: Proving Ground (canceled)
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
- Pikmin Bloom
- Campfire
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