Unity received 400 million U.S. dollars in financing value of 2.6 billion U.S. dollars, investors bullish vr/ar field

Silver Lake, a private investment company, has agreed to invest $400 million in unity, a new round of financing that will make unity valued at $2.6 billion trillion, according to today's news.

Half of the financing will be used to repay employees and early investors, and the rest will be used to help the company grow further.

Unity was founded in 2004, mainly to provide game engines, the company said, about 2.4 billion devices running the use of unity engine development of the game and applications.

Unity before the investors, including Sequoia Capital and DFJ Growth, Sequoia Capital is still the largest shareholder of unity, DFJ growth last July, took the unity of the 181 million dollar C-round financing.

Silver Lake last month announced that the latest round of technology funds has raised 15 billion of dollars. Silver Lake is betting that unity will continue to grow, not only in the gaming arena, but also in the VR and AR realms.

Unity CEO John Riccitiello says the current 70% of VR content and AR content use Unity engine, which is one of the reasons why unity attracts many investors and investment interests.