7
Funding Rounds
$18.2b
Money raised
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.
Location:
Key people:
- Elon Musk linkedin
- Sam Altman ***@openai.com
- Ilya Sutskever ****@cs.utoronto.ca
4
Funding Rounds
$910.0m
Money raised
An end-to-end blockchain and NFT solution for video games.
Location:
Key people:
- Brett Seyler *****@firstfoundry.co
- Kevin Chou *****@geng.gg
1
Funding Rounds
$35.0m
Money raised
Fractal is a gaming marketplace developed to facilitate non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
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Key people:
1
Funding Rounds
$31.0m
Money raised
An online publishing platform used by amateur and professional writers. Membership fees are used to pay writers.
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Location:
Key people:
- Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur) linkedin
- Biz Stone ****@twitter.com
- Adil Yusuf linkedin
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.
Industries:
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
$3.6m
Money raised
Splinterlands is a digital trading card game built on blockchain technology.
7
Funding Rounds
$612.4m
Money raised
Dapper Labs is a software developer that creates blockchain-based video games and platforms.
Industries:
Key people:
- Roham Gharegozlou *****@dapperlabs.com
- Mikhael Naayem *******@dapperlabs.com
- Dieter Shirley linkedin
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.
Industries:
Location:
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Devon Galloway *****.********@vidyard.com
- Ed Wu ******.**@side.com
- Michael Richard Litt *******.****@vidyard.com
8
Funding Rounds
$99.0m
Money raised
Hadean is a venture-backed computing technology company that aims to make the nature of computing more accessible.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Rashid Mansoor (entrepreneur) ******@metagravity.com
- Craig Beddis *****.******@hadean.com
- Alec Mocatta ****@hadean.com
9
Funding Rounds
$2.5b
Money raised
Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Peter Mattis *****@cockroachlabs.com
- Ben Darnell linkedin
- Spencer Kimball (computer programmer) *******@cockroachlabs.com
2
Funding Rounds
$9.5m
Money raised
Ultiverse is a company that is working to connect Web3 with a virtual reality-compatible world.
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Key people:
2
Funding Rounds
$8.5m
Money raised
DeHorizon is committed to becoming the next generation of Metaverse Game Ecosystem, where players can immersively create, socialize, entertain with other peer players.
Industries:
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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Location:
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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Location:
Key people:
1
Funding Rounds
$1.0m
Money raised
Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website.
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Location:
5
Funding Rounds
$215.0m
Money raised
Overtime is an online sports streaming platform that is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Industries:
Location:
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.
Location:
Key people:
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.
Industries:
Location:
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.
Industries:
Location:
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
Funding Rounds
$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.
Industries:
Key people:
- Sonia Arrison linkedin
- Yuri van Geest twitter
- George Eng ****@salesforce.com
2
Funding Rounds
$12.2m
Money raised
Haptik is a company developing conversational AI for customer experience.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Aakrit Vaish ******.*****@haptik.ai
- Swapan Rajdev ******@haptik.ai
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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Location:
Key people:
1
Funding Rounds
$1.0m
Money raised
Zeedz is a play-for-purpose, NFT collectible game, in which players reduce global carbon emissions by collecting plant-inspired creatures: Zeedles.
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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Location:
Key people:
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
1
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
Jumpcut creates online courses and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Location:
Key people:
- Kong Pham ****@jumpcut.com
- Jesse Jhaj *****@jessejhaj.com
- Peter Jia Lu *****@jumpcut.com
6
Funding Rounds
$141.2m
Money raised
Fandom is the world's largest entertainment and gaming fan platform.
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Location:
Key people:
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.
6
Funding Rounds
$39.7m
Money raised
Also known as the Daily Muse, The Muse is a company developing an online career platform that provides job listings and career advice to people. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator. It was founded in 2011 and is located in New York City, New York.
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Location:
Key people:
- Alexandra Cavoulacos *********.**********@aya.yale.edu
- Kathryn Minshew linkedin
- Melissa McCreery Reeves linkedin
2
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised
Launch House is a physical and digital community for entrepreneurs and creators.
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Location:
Key people:
- Michael Houck *****@megaphone.network
- Brett Goldstein *****@launchhouse.com
- Jacob Peters linkedin
4
Funding Rounds
$18.5m
Money raised
TripleLift is an American multinational technology company developing a platform that enables scalability for native, branded content and OTT advertising.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Shaun Zacharia linkedin
- Ari Lewine **@triplelift.com
- Eric Berry (entrepreneur) ****@triplelift.com
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.
Industries:
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Daryl Lim *****@metapals.pet
- Max Giammario ***@metapals.pet
- Tony Song linkedin
2
Funding Rounds
$110.3m
Money raised
Big Time is a multiplayer action RPG that makes collectable NFTs accessible to everyone.
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Location:
Key people:
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.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Jamie Winsor *****@onemoregame.com
- Patrick Wyatt ***@onemoregame.com
3
Funding Rounds
$400.0k
Money raised
Buffer is a company founded by Joel Gascoigne, Leo Widrich and Tom Moor.
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Location:
Key people:
- Tom Moor ***@getoutline.com
- Joel Gascoigne ****@buffer.com
- Leo Widrich twitter
11
Funding Rounds
$526.0m
Money raised
The leading clientflow management platform that makes it easy for independent businesses to professionally sell and deliver their services online
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Dror Shimoni ****@honeybook.com
- Oz Alon **@honeybook.com
- Shadiah Sigala *******@kinside.com
5
Funding Rounds
$373.0m
Money raised
Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.
Location:
Key people:
- Milind R Agarwal
- Rakesh Mathur ******@webaroo.com
- Beerud Sheth ******.*****@gupshup.io
1
Funding Rounds
$50.0m
Money raised
Vyond is a video animation software company.
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Location:
Key people:
3
Funding Rounds
$95.5m
Money raised
PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.
5
Funding Rounds
$528.0m
Money raised
Zomato is a company providing a search engine application that offers information on restaurants and online food delivery.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Deepinder Goyal *********.*****@zomato.com
- Pankaj Chaddah ******.*******@betheshyft.com
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.
9
Funding Rounds
$87.8m
Money raised
Everledger is a supply chain and asset tracking company using blockchain to store records of valuable assets like diamonds.
Industries:
Key people:
- Leanne Kemp ******@everledger.io
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
2
Funding Rounds
$9.0m
Money raised
WaveOne is a Mountain View, California-based digital media company that utilizes artificial intelligence for video compression. It was founded in 2016 by Lubomir Bourdev and Oren Rippel.
Industries:
Key people:
- Lubomir Bourdev linkedin
- Oren Rippel ****@wave.one
4
Funding Rounds
$487.0m
Money raised
Axios Media is a news media company known for its short-form articles. Axios Media was founded in 2016 by three former staff of Politico.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Roy Schwartz ***.********@axioshq.com
- Jim VandeHei ***@axios.com
- Michael Allen (journalist) ******@axios.com
3
Funding Rounds
$115.0m
Money raised
Atmosphere is an Austin, Texas-based streaming TV service for businesses, offering audio-optional TV programming with closed-captioning.
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Leo Resig ***.*****@atmosphere.tv
- John Resig ****.*****@chivemediagroup.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
$2.9m
Money raised
Artificial Intelligence company using Augmented Reality for collaborative professional services
Industries:
Location:
Key people:
- Samvit Ramadurgam ******.**********@forgeglobal.com
- Ritik Malhotra *****@savvywealth.com
- Sean Adkinson
2
Funding Rounds
$17.5m
Money raised
Developing a AAA Multiplayer Shooter powered by blockchain, creative modding, and true digital ownership.
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Location:
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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Location:
Key people:
- Howard Marks (investor) ******@oaktreecapital.com
- Paul Kessler linkedin
- Peter K Chen ****@venture.studio
6
Funding Rounds
$236.5m
Money raised
Runway is an applied AI research company developing multimodal AI tools and systems for creatives.
Location:
Key people:
- Anastasis Germanidis *********@runwayml.com
- Cristóbal Valenzuela Barrera *********@runwayml.com
- Alejandro Matamala *********@runwayml.com
1
Funding Rounds
Atirath is a Hyderabad, India-based mobile game development company developing puzzle, casual, and strategy games.