What is the name of the corporation that operates the Animus in Assassin's Creed?

Abstergo Industries operates the Animus in Assassin's Creed.

Abstergo is a powerful fictional corporation that presents itself as a global technology and pharmaceutical company. In the modern-day storyline, it develops and uses the Animus, a machine that allows a person to access genetic memories associated with ancestors.

The corporation is secretly connected to the Templars, the historical order opposing the Assassins. Its public business activities therefore conceal a long-term effort to locate Pieces of Eden and influence humanity. Abstergo's role gives the series a modern counterpart to its historical conflict.

The Animus is not itself a company or a person; it is the memory-experiencing technology. Abstergo Industries is also distinct from Abstergo Entertainment, a subsidiary introduced in later games. Abstergo Entertainment uses reconstructed genetic memories to produce interactive media, while the parent corporation remains the broader Templar-linked organization.