Rearden

Name

Rearden

Legal name

Rearden LLC

Website

https://rearden.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Rearden is a private Mountain View-based incubator founded by Steve Perlman in 2000 that develops fundamental technologies and creative works in stealth before releasing them as spin-off companies, with a portfolio spanning cloud gaming (OnLive), motion capture (MOVA), wireless (pCell/Artemis), and visual effects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Technology Incubator

NAICS

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Virtual Desktop & Application Delivery (VDI/DaaS, Remote Apps) (BPAEAIAC)

Keywords

• Technology incubator services
• Innovation incubation
• Cloud gaming services
• Motion capture technology
• Wireless technology R&D

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Incubator Model: Rearden provides management, infrastructure and funding to internal projects until they are ready to be released as subsidiaries or spin-off companies with sustainable business models
2. Spin-off Companies: OnLive, MOVA, and other companies were spun out from Rearden with their own revenue models including subscription services, hardware sales, and professional services

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Rearden is a privately held incubator that develops fundamental technologies and new art, then spins out mature projects as independent subsidiary companies with their own revenue models. It provides management, infrastructure, and seed funding for internal projects spanning wireless communications (DIDO/pCell), cloud gaming (OnLive), motion capture (MOVA), home entertainment (Moxi), visual effects (IceBlink), video production (Rearden Studios), women's online video (WOA), and diabetes lifestyle solutions (DiABOTS).

Product overview

Rearden is a technology and art innovation incubator founded by Steve Perlman in 2000. The company develops fundamental technologies and creative works, incubating them until ready for market. The portfolio includes OnLive (cloud gaming spun out in 2007), MOVA Contour (Academy Award-winning motion capture technology), Artemis Networks/pCell (revolutionary wireless technology), DiABOTS (diabetes solutions), WOA (women's online content network), Rearden Studios (video production), Rearden Labs (R&D), and IceBlink Studios (visual effects). Projects typically spend years in stealth development before release as subsidiaries or spin-offs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Rearden Incubator Innovation incubator founded in 2000 by Steve Perlman to develop fundamental technologies and new art, then spin out mature projects as independent subsidiary companies with their own revenue models. Houses multiple creative entities and technology entities operating under the Rearden umbrella.
• OnLive Cloud Gaming Pioneer cloud gaming service delivering real-time interactive console-quality games through the Internet on TVs, PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets, and OEM devices. Spun out from Rearden in 2007.
• MOVA Contour Reality Capture First photoreal production motion capture system for facial and body capture, providing capture services to film studios and video game developers. Won Academy Award for Visual Effects for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and was nominated in 2011.
• Artemis Networks / pCell Wireless Breakthrough wireless technology based on DIDO (Distributed-Input Distributed-Output) that delivers full-speed data rate to every mobile device concurrently regardless of user density, enabling effectively unlimited spectrum density.
• DiABOTS Company developing lifestyle solutions for Type 1 Diabetes, founded by Steve Perlman in 2013 as a Rearden incubator project.
• WOA (Women of Action Network) Online HDTV destination network for active women, launched by Steve Perlman in 2005-2006 as part of Rearden's content initiatives.
• Rearden Studios HD video and audio production services including editing for independent films, music videos, and commercial projects. Clients have included Santana and Electronic Arts.
• Rearden Labs Research and development arm of Rearden that incubates game-changing technologies and seed-funds disruptive startups including OnLive, MOVA, Android, Danger, and Moxi.
• IceBlink Studios Visual effects and animation studio co-founded with Doug Chiang that contributed art and production design to major films including War of the Worlds, Monster House, and Beowulf. Merged into Image Movers Digital in 2007.

Named customers12 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered major and core.

• ViziomajorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing Partner · 4 January 2011OnLive built into Vizio HDTVs, Blu-ray players, tablets and mobile devices as OEM integration.
• BTmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2010BT signed rights to offer OnLive games via broadband in the UK, providing distribution partnership.
• Ice Blink StudioscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2004Co-founded by Steve Perlman with renowned artist Doug Chiang in 2004. Ice Blink's work includes art/production design for major motion pictures War of the Worlds, Monster House, and Beowulf. Ice Blink became part of Image Movers Digital in 2007.
• Moxi DigitalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2000Moxi Digital was co-founded by Steve Perlman in 2000, focused on revolutionizing home entertainment with Moxi Media Center. Moxi later merged with another company in 2002 and its technology was deployed by Comcast, Time Warner, Charter and Adelphia cable TV networks.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• SRI International: SRI is a major nonprofit R&D institute that has produced foundational technologies (Siri, HDTV, surgical robotics) and spun them out commercially — comparable to Rearden as a research-driven entity that translates breakthrough science into commercial entities.
• NVIDIA (GeForce NOW): GeForce NOW is the incumbent cloud gaming platform that emerged in the category OnLive pioneered. As the dominant survivor in OnLive's space, it is the most material commercial comparison for Rearden's cloud-gaming legacy.
• PARC (Xerox): PARC is an iconic research lab that pioneered laser printing, the graphical user interface, and Ethernet before being spun out of Xerox. It represents a scaled, institutionalized version of Rearden's model of fundamental technology incubation.
• Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research is one of the world's largest industrial research organizations producing fundamental advances in systems, AI, and networking — a scaled institutional analog to Rearden Labs' R&D arm.
• Amazon Lab126: Amazon's internal hardware R&D lab built Kindle, Echo, Fire, and Ring. While inside a much larger parent, Lab126 is a clear analog to Rearden Studios / Rearden Labs as an in-house invention engine that ships consumer hardware innovations.
• Bell Labs: Nokia Bell Labs is the archetypal industrial R&D lab credited with foundational inventions in transistors, UNIX, and cellular systems — comparable to Rearden as a place where fundamental wireless and computing breakthroughs are produced and licensed.

Direct peers

• Alphabet X (formerly Google X): Alphabet's moonshot factory develops radical breakthrough technologies (e.g., Waymo, Loon, Wing) before spinning them into standalone businesses — sharing Rearden's stealth-to-spin-off DNA and willingness to incubate decade-long fundamental-tech bets.
• Idealab: Founded by Bill Gross, Idealab is one of the longest-running technology and business incubators in the US, creating and spinning out companies much like Rearden — making it the closest direct analog to Rearden's incubation model.
• Playground Global: Andy Rubin's deep-tech venture studio incubates startups at the intersection of hardware, AI, and advanced systems. Its model of providing engineering infrastructure and capital to founder-led ventures parallels Rearden's incubation style.

Others

• Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin): Lockheed's Skunk Works is a small, elite R&D unit chartered to develop breakthrough technologies in stealth — sharing Rearden's culture of small, high-leverage teams producing category-defining inventions over long stealth development cycles.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/rearden-llc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Rearden