M&A Deal Summary

Unity Software Acquires Weta Digital

On November 9, 2021, Unity Software acquired digital media company Weta Digital for 1.6B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Unity Software’s 1st transaction in the Digital Media sector.
  • This is Unity Software’s 2nd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Unity Software’s 1st transaction in New Zealand.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2021-11-09
Target Weta Digital
Sector Digital Media
Buyer(s) Unity Software
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 1.6B USD
Advisor(s) The Raine Group LLC (Financial)

Target

Weta Digital

Wellington, New Zealand
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Weta Digital is a creator and innovator of visual effects and animation, pushing what is possible in pursuit of artistic vision and delivering high-quality, ultra-realistic characters, objects, and worlds for a wide variety of award-winning movies and television shows, such as Avatar, Black Widow, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, The Suicide Squad, and more. Weta Digital was founded in 1993 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Buyer

Unity Software

San Francisco, California, United States

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Category Company
Founded 2004
Sector Software
Employees4,389
Revenue 772M USD (2020)
DESCRIPTION

Unity Software is a platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform 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. The company’s 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. Unity Software was founded in 2004 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 8
Sector (Digital Media) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 6 of 7
Country (New Zealand) 1 of 1
Year (2021) 5 of 5
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 3
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