AR Investment
Ubiquity6 Raises $27M Series B, Debuts Its First Public Multiuser AR Experience at SFMOMA
Ubiquity6, the AR startup that came out of stealth earlier this year, announced the successful completion of a $27 million Series B finance round. The latest round was co-led by Benchmark and Index Ventures, with Benchmark taking a seat...
Niantic Acquires Seismic to Help Create AR Games & Upcoming AR Platform
Seismic Games, the studio behind Google Daydream's Blade Runner: Revelations (2018), has been acquired by Niantic, the force behind popular location-based games Pokémon GO, Ingress, and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
Seismic Games released the news via a blog post, saying that from now...
Beyeonics Raises $11.5M to Further Develop AR/VR Surgical Visualization Platform
Elbit Systems, an Israel-based defense company, recently announced that its medical technologies subsidiary Beyeonics Surgical successfully concluded its first funding round of $11.5 million, which the company says will be used to expand product development and accelerate commercialization of its...
Magic Leap Raises $461M in New Funding Led by Saudi Arabia’s Investment Arm
Magic Leap, the augmented reality headset manufacturer, has added another couple hundred million dollars to its Series D investment round, this time $461 million led by The Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment arm, Tech Crunch reports.
According to the...
Virtualitics Closes $7M Series B Round to Further Develop VR/AR Data Visualization Platform
Virtualitics, a big data visualization and analytics company, announced the successful close of a $7 million Series B round of equity funding led by investment group Centricus, and participated by existing investor the Venture Reality Fund (‘The VR Fund’) and...
Gree VR Capital Completes First $18M VR/AR Fund, Changes Name to GFR Fund
GREE VR Capital, the investment firm backing startups such as VRChat, TheWaveVR, and Littlstar, today announced the completion of its first immersive media fund, totaling $18.3 million in allocated funds. Previously called GVR Fund, the company is now changing its name...
Magic Leap Takes on Funding from Media Company Axel Springer
German media company Axel Springer today announced that it has taken part in a new round of financing of Magic Leap. The company hasn't disclosed the amount of the investment, or mentioned whether other companies have also taken part in the new...
Investors Poured a Record $2 Billion into VR/AR in 2017, But Early Stage Funding Slowed
In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight...
HTC Invests in 26 More AR/VR Startups in Vive X Accelerator
HTC today announced its third batch of AR/VR startups backed by the company's Vive X accelerator program. A total of 26 new companies from across the world have been selected to participate in the program with the goal of "building...
Williams-Sonoma Acquires Outward for $112 Million to Expand 3D, AR, and VR Retail Visualization
Williams-Sonoma Inc has announced that an agreement has been reached to acquire Outward Inc for an all cash consideration of $112 million. Williams-Sonoma Inc is a US-based high-end retailer of home furnishings and kitchenware, associated with stores such as Williams...
‘Pokémon Go’ Studio Niantic Completes $200M Funding Round
Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, announced they've taken on $200 million in their Series B investment round.
As reported by Tech Crunch, the Series B investment round was lead by Spark Capital in participation with Founders...
Magic Leap Raises Another $502 Million, Now Totalling Nearly $2 Billion in Funding
Rumors from back in September of Magic Leap raising a Series D investment were confirmed today as the company revealed an additional $502 million in venture funding, led by a Singaporean investment firm Temasek, with participation from strategic and financial investors.
The...
Report: Magic Leap Raising Series D Investment, Could Value Company at $6–8 Billion
For a company that's showed almost no one what they're building, Magic Leap has been phenomenally successful at fundraising. The company has previously raised a staggering $1.4 billion, and if a recent report turns out to be true, they're about...
Walmart Focuses On Future of VR/AR at New Silicon Valley Tech Incubator
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the big-box retail giant, is focusing on the future of VR and AR, along with other emergent technologies, with its newly unveiled tech startup incubator.
According to a Bloomberg Technology report, Wal-Mart is creating the incubator to "identify...
AR Specialist Zappar Nets $3.75m in Funding, Aims to “Democratize Augmented Reality”
Zappar, a London-based developer in the Augmented Reality space, is announcing the closing of its Series A funding round. The $3.75m investment will accelerate the development of several new products along with increased support for ZapWorks, their flagship content...



















