Jaunt provides an end-to-end solution for creating and distributing premium live-action cinematic virtual reality, including professional-grade camera hardware, software, and production tools. The company recently announced its 5th generation patent-pending camera system, Jaunt ONE, and operates a studio arm, Jaunt Studios, focused on live-action VR. Jaunt plans to scale up VR production and expand delivery across mobile devices and VR hardware while significantly growing teams in its Palo Alto headquarters and new Los Angeles studio. The company works with brands and creative partners such as The North Face, Rebecca Minkoff, Condé Nast and ABC News to produce branded and original VR content. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto with a presence in Los Angeles, Jaunt positions itself as a leading, well-capitalized player in cinematic VR. Jaunt builds a full-stack hardware and software platform for cinematic virtual reality, using proprietary algorithms and computational photography to produce seamless omnidirectional 3D experiences. The company develops hardware, software, tools, and applications that integrate with existing production workflows to enable immersive cinematic VR. Since launching earlier this year, Jaunt is in production on a wide range of cinematic VR experiences for creators across Hollywood, travel, sports, and live events. The company plans to use new funding to scale its technology and meet growing demand from content creators and deliver VR experiences to mass audiences. Jaunt announced a $27.8 million Series B and has raised more than $34 million in total to date. The company is supported by advisors from Amazon, IMAX, film and academia and is based in Palo Alto, Calif. Jaunt develops hardware and software tools around computational photography to enable filmmakers to produce cinematic experiences for VR headsets. The company built a special spherical camera with 32 lenses and complementary post-production, editing and rendering software to recompose multi-lens video for headsets like the Oculus Rift. Jaunt positions itself as a studio offering end-to-end VR production solutions and says it has no immediate plans to sell its hardware or software. The team previously sold Ellerdale to Flipboard and has assembled advisers including Peter Gotcher, Stuart Murphy, Babak Parviz and Brad Wechsler. Jaunt is Palo Alto–based and has raised $6.8 million in funding from investors including Redpoint Ventures, Peter Gotcher, Blake Krikorian, SV Angel and British Sky Broadcasting. The company is targeting filmmakers and Hollywood creatives to produce immersive, film-like VR content as consumer VR platforms gain attention. Jaunt is an early-stage Palo Alto startup that captures and displays 360-degree video and immersive content. Its technology, per the company LinkedIn, combines computational photography, statistical algorithms, massively parallel processing, cutting-edge hardware and virtual reality. The company’s placeholder site currently offers only a "stayed tune" message while it builds out its engineering team. Jaunt’s leadership includes CEO Jens Christensen, CTO Arthur van Hoff and VP of engineering Tom Annau, all with notable prior roles at Flipboard and Google. The startup has secured strategic industry interest as part of a partnership with BSkyB, which the broadcaster says will give it additional insight into developments in the field. No revenue or user metrics are disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$100M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Sep 2015