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:

Maxon will host a live ZBrush presentation on October 15, 2026, at 11 am PST, featuring Senior Product Manager Paul Gaboury and Solutions Experts Ian Robinson and Rodolfo Silva. The team plans to review over 20 new ZBrush features added in the past 13 months and offer a preview of its 2027 developments. Previously, from September 11 to 14, 2026, Maxon previewed upcoming autumn updates for Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Redshift, Red Giant, and Autograph at IBC2026 in Amsterdam. The company showcased these developments at booth 7.B24. Earlier, on September 10, 2026, Maxon released Redshift 2026.9, an update to its GPU-accelerated renderer for VFX, motion graphics, and visualization work. The new version incorporates anisotropy and HDR compression into the real-time renderer Redshift Live, includes OCIO 2.5 support, and adds support for instancing of USD and Alembic particles in Maya. Redshift serves as Maxon’s production renderer for applications such as Cinema 4D, Maya, 3ds Max, Houdini, Katana, Blender, and ZBrush, rendering across NVIDIA, AMD, and Apple GPU hardware, with CPU rendering capabilities also available.

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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 generative AI, advertising Services and retail companies. Examples of Maxon's customers include Nike, Doner and Microsoft. Maxon has partners like Mondlicht Studios.

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