Interview

August 26, 2019

The early days of scaling $6bn Unity were a “slow-moving panic”

Unity's David Helgason tells the story of when having $5m in the bank and a dream board still can be too much to handle.


Mimi Billing

7 min read

This spring Unity secured a fresh $525m funding round, valuing the games engine startup at a whopping $6bn. The company today controls around half of the global market, with the other big contender being Unreal Engine by Epic Games.

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David Helgason, cofounder of Unity, meets Sifted at Matrikel1 in Copenhagen.
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Mimi Billing

Mimi Billing is Sifted's Europe editor, based in Stockholm. She covers the Nordics and can be found on X and LinkedIn

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