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Our story

It started as us two. It belongs to all of us now.

Mills and Sinx, childhood friends, opened a studio in Shoreditch in 2004 and named it after exactly who was in the room. Twenty years on, the people who work here own most of it.

Illustrative: four colleagues in a brick-walled studio mapping ideas on a wall of sticky notes

Timeline

Four moments that made the studio

  1. 2004

    Matt "Mills" Miller and John "Sinx" Sinclair, childhood friends, start ustwo in Shoreditch, London. The name means exactly what it says: us two.

  2. 2014

    ustwo Games releases Monument Valley. It wins an Apple Design Award and a BAFTA.

  3. 2015

    The company is renamed ustwo Fampany: a family and a company at once.

  4. Today

    A Certified B Corp, majority owned by the people who work here, with studios in London, Malmö, New York and Lisbon.

62%

Together we own 62% of ustwo.

Through an Employee Ownership Trust. Everyone who works at ustwo studios is a partner.

Employee-owned, B Corp

Majority owned by the people who make the work

An Employee Ownership Trust holds the majority of the company on behalf of everyone who works here. We are also a Certified B Corp, guided by our sustainability and net-zero commitments. Both are ways of saying the same thing: the studio exists for the people in it and the people it builds for.

CEO
Nicki Sprinz
Chair
Sue Siddall
Head of Design
Jim Harrison
Board
Simon Bouton, Google DeepMind
More on employee ownership, on ustwo.com

Values

Five things we hold each other to

  • Be Human

    Treat people as people, in the work and in the room.

  • Learn together

    Nobody here is finished learning, and nobody learns alone.

  • Raise the bar

    Good enough is where we start arguing.

  • Use the freedom

    Ownership is only worth something if you act on it.

  • Enjoy the journey

    If the making is miserable, the product will show it.

Studios

Four cities, one studio

  • Hello

    London

    154-158 Shoreditch High StLondon E1 6HU
  • Hej

    Malmö

    Södergatan 16Malmö
  • Hi

    New York

    20 Jay Street, Suite 530Brooklyn, New York
  • Olá

    Lisbon

    Avenida da Liberdade 110Lisbon

ustwo Games, the studio behind Monument Valley, is a sister studio and a Certified B Corp in its own right. Our Tokyo studio operated from 2017 to 2025.