Maxon, a privately owned company headquartered in Germany and part of the Nemetschek Group, was founded in 1986 and employs approximately 340 individuals. The company reported $136.8M in revenue as of 2025. Maxon specializes in developing 3D software for the creative industries, with its offerings including 3D modeling, painting, rendering, and animation software, notably CINEMA 4D.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1986

Headcount

389

Headquarters

Germany

Primary Segment

Graphics

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

3

News Summary:

On September 11, 2026, Maxon presented an early look at its upcoming autumn updates for Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Redshift, Red Giant, and Autograph at IBC2026 in Rai Amsterdam. Previously, on September 10, the company released Redshift 2026.9, the latest version of its GPU-accelerated renderer for VFX, motion graphics, and visualization work. This update added anisotropy and HDR compression in the new real-time renderer Redshift Live, OCIO 2.5 support, and instancing of USD and Alembic particles in Maya. Earlier, on September 9, Maxon previewed these routine software updates at IBC 2026, noting that the "Fall Ecosystem Release" includes incremental features for Cinema 4D, ZBrush, and Redshift, aligning with its quarterly update cadence. The company's parent, Nemetschek, focuses its investment story on growth in construction and design software.

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Maxon offers products in the media tech industry. Maxon's product portfolio comprises of graphics.
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Maxon's revenues were less than $250M in 2025. All the revenue comes from vFX and graphics software.
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Maxon's customers primarily consist of enterprise cloud, retail and advertising Services companies. Examples of Maxon's customers include Microsoft, Nike and Doner. Maxon has partners like Mondlicht Studios.

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