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AR/VR Startup Metrics to Unlock VC Funding
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Don Stein
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Venture-Backed Founder Convo A reality check for venture-backed founders from a top CEO It's my honor to invite you to RSVP now to the hottest venture-backed conversation of 2025. We've arranged for the top founder of AEXLAB to share his fundraising perspective on VC's. The audience will be full of venture founders. Conversation will be curated by myself, it's going to be extremely helpful for CEO's. Founder Extraordinaire AXELAB Legendary emerging tech CEO, and Forbes 30 Under 30, Jonathan...
The median sized round of an AR/VR/3D startup raising in Q1 2024 is between $2M to $4M according to Crunchbase, signaling the majority raising right now are at the Seed stage. AR/VR Funding Trend This is in stark contrast to A.I. startups which have seen 298 funding rounds announced in Q1 2024 with the majority of round sizes between $20M to $40M. AI Startup Funding Trend However, AR/VR is still very much alive thanks to Apple's new device, and the Quest 3 (and Orion) announcements from Meta....
Last week we hosted an incredible conversation with Sam Cole, Founder and CEO of FitXR. He's raised nearly $30,000,000 for his company, and has become one of the leading players in XR Fitness. You can watch the full recording of our conversation below: How did Sam Cole come up with the idea of fitness in virtual reality? Sam explained his interest in VR and AR (referred to as XR) began around 2013-2014, particularly with companies like Magic Leap and Oculus. He mentioned, "I remember thinking...