Unity Technologies CTO declares the company isn't up for sale

Joachim Ante, the co-founder and chief technology officer at Unity Technologies, said in a forum post that his company isn’t up for sale. The post contradicts reports, including one that we published, that said that Unity was up for sale.

Previously, Unity had stayed silent and declined to comment on the earlier reports. It’s not clear why Ante chose to speak up now, but his comment was clear. He reiterated Unity’s mission of democratizing game development, or making it possible for the smallest companies or individual developers to create their own games that can compete with those that giant companies make. He said that sometimes talk of acquisition comes up in discussions with partners.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.