What is the name of the company Neo works for in "The Matrix"?

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The company Neo works for in "The Matrix" is Metacortex.

Before becoming Neo, Thomas Anderson lives a double life inside the simulated world. By day, he is a programmer at Metacortex, a respectable software company where he works in an ordinary office under his legal name. By night, he uses the alias Neo to hack into computer systems and sell illegal software.

Metacortex appears early in the 1999 film, when Neo arrives late for work and is reprimanded by his boss, Mr. Rhineheart. The company’s sterile cubicles and rigid corporate environment help establish the controlled, impersonal reality Neo is about to question. Agents later arrive at the same workplace while pursuing him and Morpheus.

A minor source of confusion is the company’s on-screen lettering, which has sometimes been read as “Meta Cortechs” or “MetaCortex.” Most references and quiz sources standardize the name as Metacortex, making that the canonical answer. It is also easy to confuse Metacortex with the mysterious Matrix itself, but Metacortex is simply Neo’s fictional software employer within the Matrix.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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