1) Oculus Oculus, which makes the Rift, creates virtual reality systems and technologies that allow users to experience anything with anybody.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: Menlo Park Started in: 2012 Founders: Brendan Iribe, Jack McCauley, Maxwell Planck, Michael Antonov, Mike LeBeau, Nate Mitchell, Palmer Luckey Number of employees: 501-1000 Funding amount: $98,387,429 Number of funding rounds: 5 Number of investors: 10 You can find their website here
2) Niantic Niantic develops augmented reality platforms for current and future AR hardware generations.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: San Francisco Started in: 2010 Founders: John Hanke, Phil Keslin Number of employees: 101-250 Funding amount: $470,000,000 Number of funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 20 You can find their website here
3) Magic Leap Magic Leap is a wearable technology developed by Magic Leap that allows users to interact with digital gadgets in a purely visual cinematic manner.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: Plantation Started in: 2010 Founders: Brian Schowengerdt, Rony Abovitz Number of employees: 1001-5000 Funding amount: $2,978,500,000 Number of funding rounds: 10 Number of investors: 27 You can find their website here
4) The Wild The Wild is a virtual and augmented reality-based immersive collaboration platform that helps architecture, design, and enterprise teams save time and make better decisions by allowing them to experience their work together in a shared virtual area.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: Portland Started in: 2017 Founders: Gabe Paez Number of employees: 11-50 Funding amount: $3,125,000 Number of funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 6 You can find their website here
5) Play Shifu PlayShifu is an EdTech company that provides teaching and learning tools for kids aged 4 to 12.
Details of the startup:
Country: India City: Bengaluru Started in: 2016 Founders: Dinesh Advani, Vivek Goyal Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $28,438,340 Number of funding rounds: 5 Number of investors: 10 You can find their website here
6) RED 6 ATARS is a system developed by RED 6 that allows real pilots in real planes to fly and visually maneuver against any synthetically generated enemy in real time.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: Santa Monica Started in: 2018 Founders: Nick Bicanic Number of employees: 11-50 Funding amount: $40,850,000 Number of funding rounds: 5 Number of investors: 10 You can find their website here
7) Rec Room Rec Room is a virtual world where you may play and create games with your friends.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: Seattle Started in: 2016 Founders: Bilal Orhan, Cameron Brown, Dan Kroymann, John Bevis, Josh Wehrly, Nick Fajt Number of employees: 101-250 Funding amount: $149,000,000 Number of funding rounds: 7 Number of investors: 10 You can find their website here
8) Avataar.Me Avataar.Me is a high-tech provider of AR and VR services that are utilized to turn 2D design materials into 3D social media campaigns.
Details of the startup:
Country: India City: Bengaluru Started in: 2016 Founders: Gaurav Baid, Mayank Tiwari, Prashanth Aluru, Sravanth Aluru Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $7,000,000 Number of funding rounds: 1 Number of investors: 1 You can find their website here
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9) Specular Theory, Inc. Award-winning virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence (VR/AR/AI) training applications for the defense and commercial sectors. A Phase III SBIR firm. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: Venice Started in: 2013 Founders: Morris May, Ryan Pulliam Number of employees: 1-10 Funding amount: $5,700,000 Number of funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 1 You can find their website here
10) CLO Virtual Fashion CLO Virtual Fashion creates lifelike 3D garment simulation technology for the fashion, film, and gaming sectors.
Details of the startup:
Country: South Korea City: Seoul Started in: 2009 Founders: Jaden Oh, JH Boo Number of employees: 101-250 Funding amount: ₩6,000,000,000 Number of funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 4 You can find their website here
11) Heru Heru creates unique AI-powered vision diagnostics and augmentation software that can be used with commercially accessible AR/VR devices.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: Miami Started in: 2018 Number of employees: 11-50 Funding amount: $32,700,000 Number of funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 5 You can find their website here
12) Second Spectrum Second Spectrum is working on a game machine learning software that will use artificial intelligence to change sports.
Details of the startup:
Country: United States City: Los Angeles Started in: 2013 Founders: Jeff Su, Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu-Han Chang Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $20,099,998 Number of funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 4 You can find their website here
13) Nreal Nreal is a company that creates mixed reality glasses that are ready to wear.
Details of the startup:
Country: China City: Beijing Started in: 2017 Founders: Bing Xiao, Chi Xu Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $71,000,000 Number of funding rounds: 5 Number of investors: 12 You can find their website here
14) UX3D In 3D, UX3D offers GPU-based products and solutions for disruptive technologies such as AI, XR, and eCommerce.
Details of the startup:
Country: Germany City: Munich Started in: 2017 Founders: Norbert Nopper, Thomas Kress Number of employees: 11-50 Funding amount: € 990,000 Number of funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 1 You can find their website here
15) CGTrader CGTrader is the world's leading provider of high-quality 3D content for e-commerce, gaming, virtual reality, entertainment, and 3D printing.
Details of the startup:
Country: Lithuania City: Vilnius Started in: 2012 Founders: Dalia Lasaite, Marius Kalytis Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $12,112,321 Number of funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 5 You can find their website here
16) Rokid Rokid is a cutting-edge technology firm that focuses on robotics research and AI development.
Details of the startup:
Country: China City: Hangzhou Started in: 2014 Founders: Eric Wong, Mingming Zhu Number of employees: 251-500 Funding amount: $158,300,000 Number of funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 9 You can find their website here
17) bdeo Bdeo is a visual intelligence company that aims to alter the way people interact with insurance companies.
Details of the startup:
Country: Spain City: Madrid Started in: 2017 Founders: Julio Pernía Aznar , Manuel Moreno Number of employees: 11-50 Funding amount: € 6,300,000 Number of funding rounds: 5 Number of investors: 6 You can find their website here
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18) MapsPeople MapsPeople creates a cloud-based SaaS indoor navigation software that enables users to navigate huge, complicated buildings with ease.
Details of the startup:
Country: Denmark City: Nørresundby Started in: 1997 Founders: Michael Gram Number of employees: 101-250 Funding amount: DKK53,000,000 Number of funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 3 You can find their website here
19) JigSpace Clients can use JigSpace to make and share dynamic spatial presentations.
Details of the startup:
Country: Australia City: Melbourne Started in: 2015 Founders: Numa Bertron, Sam Duff, Zac Duff Number of employees: 11-50 Funding amount: $1,401,000 Number of funding rounds: 3 Number of investors: 5 You can find their website here
20) Adverty Adverty is a cutting-edge advertising platform.
Details of the startup:
Country: Sweden City: Stockholm Started in: 2016 Founders: Niklas Bakos Number of employees: 11-50 Funding amount: $3,767,824 Number of funding rounds: 3 Number of investors: 3 You can find their website here
21) Resolution Games Resolution Games is a virtual reality and augmented reality game development company.
Details of the startup:
Country: Sweden City: Stockholm Started in: 2015 Founders: Martin Vilcans, Måns Ullerstam, Paul Brady, Tommy Palm Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $13,500,000 Number of funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 11 You can find their website here
22) DataMesh XR platform + Digital Twin
Details of the startup:
Country: China City: Beijing Started in: 2014 Founders: Jie Li Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $3,095,574 Number of funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 2 You can find their website here
23) DGene DGene is a provider of virtual reality solutions.
Details of the startup:
Country: China City: Shanghai Started in: 2016 Founders: Jason Yang, Jingyi Yu, Xu Hong, Yi Ma Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $21,326,887 Number of funding rounds: 4 Number of investors: 6 You can find their website here
24) 51WORLD Infrastructure provider for digital twins
Details of the startup:
Country: China City: Beijing Started in: 2015 Founders: Archer Li, Oscar Xue, Yi Li Number of employees: 251-500 Funding amount: $45,000,000 Number of funding rounds: 3 Number of investors: 9 You can find their website here
25) Pimax VR Pimax designs and manufactures VR headsets in 4K and 8K resolutions.
Details of the startup:
Country: China City: Shanghai Started in: 2015 Founders: Robin Weng, Veni Tang Number of employees: 51-100 Funding amount: $19,236,618 Number of funding rounds: 2 Number of investors: 2 You can find their website here
26) HiScene HiScene is a company that focuses on studying and creating fundamental augmented reality technology and solutions.
Details of the startup:
Country: China City: Shanghai Started in: 2012 Founders: Chunyuan Liao Number of employees: 1-10 Funding amount: $67,596,276 Number of funding rounds: 6 Number of investors: 12 You can find their website here
