8
Funding Rounds
$58.2b
Money raised
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.
Location:
Key people:
- Sam Altman ***@openai.com
- Ilya Sutskever ****@cs.utoronto.ca
- Wojciech Zaremba ********@openai.com
1
Funding Rounds
$35.0m
Money raised
Fractal is a gaming marketplace developed to facilitate non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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9
Funding Rounds
$454.1m
Money raised
Mythical Games is a Los Angeles-based video game development company developing games for playable non-fungible tokens to identify game characters that players can own and offers players a secondary market.
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Key people:
- Rudy Koch ****@mythical.games
- Jamie Jackson *****@mythical.games
- Chris Downs *****@mythical.games
6
Funding Rounds
$1.7b
Money raised
Discord is an American company that offers users a free messenger with support for IP telephony and video conferencing. About 56 million people use the Discord messenger every month, and its total audience exceeds 270 million users.
2
Funding Rounds
$110.0m
Money raised
Clubhouse is a San Francisco-based social app offering a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people.
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Key people:
- Paul Davison (entrepreneur) ****@clubhouse.com
- Rohan Seth *****@clubhouse.com
4
Funding Rounds
$60.7m
Money raised
Vidyard is a company providing a video marketing platform for businesses. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.
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Key people:
- Devon Galloway *****.********@vidyard.com
- Ed Wu ******.**@side.com
- Michael Richard Litt *******.****@vidyard.com
6
Funding Rounds
$168.0m
Money raised
Developer of fully interactive advanced lab simulations designed to create scalable science training software. The company's simulations offer a virtual laboratory based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations along with molecular three-dimension animations, quiz questions, and background theory.
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Key people:
- Michael Bodekær Jensen *******@labster.com
- Mads Tvillinggaard Bonde
2
Funding Rounds
$7.0m
Money raised
P2E game build on Solana blockchain. Grab your mask and start your journey - level up from card strategy battle game to full MMO glory!
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1
Funding Rounds
$1.0m
Money raised
Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website.
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5
Funding Rounds
$215.0m
Money raised
Overtime is an online sports streaming platform that is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
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Key people:
- Dan Porter (entrepreneur) ***@itsovertime.com
- Zack Weiner ****@overtime.tv
2
Funding Rounds
$2.0b
Money raised
Razer is a United States-based company founded in 2005 by Min-Liang Tan.
5
Funding Rounds
$19.7m
Money raised
Khan Academy is a nonprofit online educational organization that was founded in 2008.
Industries:
Key people:
- Sal Khan *******@khanacademy.org
2
Funding Rounds
$3.9m
Money raised
Donut Lab is a mobile game developer of the Donut Punks action game.
7
Funding Rounds
$194.0m
Money raised
Rec Room is a Seattle-based augmented and virtual reality software company.
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Location:
Key people:
- Josh Wehrly ****@recroom.com
- Nick Fajt ****@recroom.com
- Dan Kroymann ***@recroom.com
5
Funding Rounds
$8.4m
Money raised
Speech recognition software that provides voice-enabled experiences for kids of all ages, accents, and dialects while prioritizing privacy.
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5
Funding Rounds
$250.0m
Money raised
LiveU is a Hackensack, New Jersey-based broadcast company offering high quality live video streaming for television, online, and social media broadcasting.
8
Funding Rounds
$1.2b
Money raised
Scopely - leading mobile game development company.
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Key people:
- Eytan Elbaz *****@scopely.com
- Walter Driver ******.******@scopely.com
2
Funding Rounds
$34.7m
Money raised
Mixhalo is a San Francisco-based technology company that has created a closed Wi-Fi network capable of transmitting audio in near real time from a sound source to an app on a smartphone.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Mike Einziger *******@motherscience.com
- Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger ********@mixhalo.com
- Vikram Singh ***@mixhalo.com
2
Funding Rounds
$35.0m
Money raised
Stardust is a company that develops solutions for gaming in the metaverse.
5
Funding Rounds
$41.6m
Money raised
SignalWire is a developer of an API and products platform.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Evan McGee ****.*****@signalwire.com
- Sean Heiney
- Anthony Minessale *******.*********@signalwire.com
3
Funding Rounds
$10.8m
Money raised
The Ajuna platform provides a simplified way for Unreal and Unity developers to build an incentive layer into their games using tokenized virtual goods.
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Key people:
- Cédric Decoster ******.********@gmail.com
- André Schneider *****@ajuna.io
- Nicholas Douzinas linkedin
2
Funding Rounds
$8.0m
Money raised
Mavia is a multiplayer allotment-based strategy game that allows players to build, develop their army, and own property using in-game resources and the RUBY cryptocurrency.
Location:
3
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$2.8m
Money raised
HackerNoon is a free online technology blog.
5
Funding Rounds
$32.0m
Money raised
Singularity University is a startup accelerator focusing on commercializing technologies developed in research facilities.
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Key people:
- Sonia Arrison linkedin
- Yuri van Geest twitter
- George Eng ****@salesforce.com
4
Funding Rounds
$65.0m
Money raised
Blackshark.ai is an artificial intelligence geospatial intelligence company that extracts information from satellite and aerial imagery at a global scale using machine learning.
Location:
Key people:
- Michael Putz *****@blackshark.ai
- Brad Young (entrepreneur) ******@blackshark.ai
- Thomas Richter-Trummer linkedin
4
Funding Rounds
$95.2m
Money raised
VRChat is a virtual reality communications platform. It was founded in 2014 and is located in San Francisco, California.
4
Funding Rounds
$17.0m
Money raised
American technology company, and its android emulator for windows and mac
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6
Funding Rounds
$13.2m
Money raised
StoryFit is an Austin-based company developing a proprietary AI platform with data insights to help storytellers realize a story's potential.
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3
Funding Rounds
$20.0m
Money raised
Upland is a property trading metaverse connected to real-world addresses.
Industries:
Key people:
- Dirk Lueth ****@upland.me
- Idan Zuckerman ****@upland.me
- Mani Honigstein ****@upland.me
3
Funding Rounds
$216.3m
Money raised
Genies is an American avatar technology company founded by Akash Nigam and Evan Rosenbaum in 2017. Genies consumer app allow users to create fully personalized avatars to be used in apps such as Giphy, iMessage, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and more.
2
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised
Launch House is a physical and digital community for entrepreneurs and creators.
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Key people:
- Michael Houck *****@megaphone.network
- Brett Goldstein *****@launchhouse.com
- Jacob Peters linkedin
3
Funding Rounds
$12.3m
Money raised
CodeCombat is a company providing a multiplayer programming game for learning how to to code. It teaches Python, JavaScript, and other languages directly in the browser. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.
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Location:
Key people:
- Nick Winter (entrepreneur) ****@codecombat.com
- Nick Winter (co-founder of CodeCombat) ****@codecombat.com
- Scott Erickson (co-founder of CodeCombat) *****@codecombat.com
3
Funding Rounds
$807.0k
Money raised
MetaPals is a browser extension that allows users to interact and grow virtual pets directly from their web browser windows.
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Location:
Key people:
- Daryl Lim *****@metapals.pet
- Max Giammario ***@metapals.pet
- Tony Song linkedin
2
Funding Rounds
$19.0m
Money raised
Fnatic is a professional eSports organization with headquarters in London.
2
Funding Rounds
$27.7m
Money raised
One More Game is a Seattle-based startup that specializes in the development of online video games.
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Location:
Key people:
- Jamie Winsor *****@onemoregame.com
- Patrick Wyatt ***@onemoregame.com
3
Funding Rounds
$95.5m
Money raised
PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.
3
Funding Rounds
$138.0m
Money raised
Pinecone is a company developing a fully managed, cloud-native vector database, simplifying adding vector search to production applications and providing long-term memory for AI applications.
7
Funding Rounds
$544.5m
Money raised
Runway is a research company pioneering new tools for human imagination. Runway has been at the forefront of multi-modal AI systems ensuring that the future of content creation is accessible, controllable and empowering for creatives.
Location:
Key people:
- Anastasis Germanidis *********@runwayml.com
- Cristóbal Valenzuela Barrera *********@runwayml.com
- Alejandro Matamala *********@runwayml.com
2
Funding Rounds
$3.0m
Money raised
Mundfish is a game development studio specializing in the production of role playing games.
Industries:
Key people:
- Robert Bagratuni ***************@mundfish.com
- Artem Galeev linkedin
- Oleg Gorodishenin ****@mundfish.com
3
Funding Rounds
$160.0m
Money raised
Kernel is a neuroscience and engineering company founded in 2016, based in Los Angeles. Kernel is developing neuroprosthetics that mimic or assist brain functions for patients with neurological and degenerative brain diseases. In the long term Kernel plans to develop less invasive brain implants that can augment human intelligence.
3
Funding Rounds
$5.1m
Money raised
Rainway is a Seattle-based developer of real-time, low-latency tools for streaming, intended for developers and organizations to develop interactive streaming.
2
Funding Rounds
$55.5m
Money raised
StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform. StartEngine allows non accredited investors invest online, own shares in startups and early growth companies. Over 150 Startups and entrepreneurs have been funded on StartEngine.
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Key people:
- Howard Marks (investor) ******@oaktreecapital.com
- Paul Kessler linkedin
- Peter K Chen ****@venture.studio
1
Funding Rounds
Atirath is a Hyderabad, India-based mobile game development company developing puzzle, casual, and strategy games.
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Key people:
6
Funding Rounds
$11.0m
Money raised
A brain-computer interface company building software and hardware products, neurotechnology tools that interpret human intent, measure emotion and provide telekinetic control of the digital world based on EEG signals.
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Location:
Key people:
- James Hamet linkedin
- Adam Eizenberg-Molnar ****@neurable.com
- Adam Molnar ****@neurable.com
3
Funding Rounds
$60.0m
Money raised
Zora Labs is a marketplace for non-fungible tokens.
Location:
Key people:
- Slava Kim linkedin
- Justin Aversano twitter
- Jacob Horne *****@zora.co
6
Funding Rounds
$5.8m
Money raised
Bambuser is a Software-as-a-Service company specializing in interactive live video streaming for enterprises that offer live video shopping.
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Location:
Key people:
- Tom Sundstrom linkedin
- Martin Storsjo ******.*******@bambuser.com
- Pouria Ruhi linkedin
6
Funding Rounds
$77.7m
Money raised
Genius is a media annotation website.
2
Funding Rounds
$10.3m
Money raised
Granicus is an American technology company and a subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners. It was founded in 1999 in San Francisco, before moving to Denver in 2014. Granicus creates websites for public organizations and US government entities, and works in legislation management.
$6.0m
Money raised
Give Crypto is a charitable organization distributing small payments to individuals in need, using cryptocurrencies.
1
Funding Rounds
$10.0m
Money raised
Lava Labs is a game development studio.
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9
Funding Rounds
$646.6m
Money raised
Machine learning platform for data scientists and engineers to help create enterprise AI.
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Location:
Key people:
- Marc BATTY ****.*****@dataiku.com
- Florian Douetteau *******.*********@dataiku.com
- Thomas Cabrol ******.******@dataiku.com
2
Funding Rounds
$18.2m
Money raised
Xplore is a spacecraft development company focused on launching space missions to Mars, Venus, the Moon, and asteroids.
Industries:
Key people:
- Lisa Rich ****.****@hemisphere.com
- Jeff Rich (entrepreneur) ****.****@hemisphere.com
8
Funding Rounds
$7.3m
Money raised
BioBeats is an artificial Intelligence company founded by David Plans, Nadeem Kassam and Davide Morelli.
Location:
Key people:
- David Plans linkedin
- Nadeem Kassam ******@zynik.com
- Davide Morelli ******.*******@healios.org.uk
1
Funding Rounds
$3.9m
Money raised
Twin Suns Corp. is a Bainbridge Island, Washington-based video game development studio developing action games for console and PC.
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Location:
Key people:
- Forest Swartout Large linkedin
- Timothy Longo Jr. ***@twinsunscorp.net
- Jeffrey Morris ****@freerangegames.com
4
Funding Rounds
$166.0m
Money raised
Winzo is an India-based gaming and entertainment platform.
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Key people:
1
Funding Rounds
$5.0m
Money raised
ArenaX Labs is a company that specializes in game development.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Wei Xie ***@arenaxlabs.com
- Brandon da Silva *******@arenaxlabs.com
- Dylan Pereira *****@arenaxlabs.com
4
Funding Rounds
$53.3m
Money raised
Horizon's Sequence platform will provide a scalable Ethereum architecture for third-parties to build and launch decentralized games that are provably fair, enable true digital ownership, and that reward activity by players on the network.
Industries:
Key people:
- Daniel Racca linkedin
- Ian Ha ***@horizon.io
- Peter Kieltyka linkedin
6
Funding Rounds
$208.3m
Money raised
SoundCloud is an entertainment company providing an online audio distribution platform for listening to music and podcasts.
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Location:
Key people:
- Eric Wahlforss ****.*********@soundcloud.com
- Alexander Ljung twitter
7
Funding Rounds
$610.0m
Money raised
Newfront Insurance is a company that provides technologies that are designed to simplify brokerage processes
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Location:
Key people:
- Spike Lipkin *****.******@newfront.com
- Gordon Wintrob ******.*******@newfront.com
1
Funding Rounds
$6.0m
Money raised
NewsGuard is a company developing a browser add-on that rates news sources on their credibility; the purpose is to fight misinformation and fake news.
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Location:
Key people:
- L. Gordon Crovitz ******.*******@newsguardtech.com
- Steven Brill ******.*****@newsguardtech.com
9
Funding Rounds
$582.7m
Money raised
Synthesia is an AI-powered video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Niessner and Steffen Tjerrild.
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Key people:
- Victor Riparbelli ******@synthesia.io
- Lourdes Agapito *.*******@cs.ucl.ac.uk
- Matthias Niessner ********.********@cs.fau.de