PowerCore, founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, offers a platform combining smart toys, digitally tagged merchandise, and digital activation to bridge digital games and real-world interactions. The platform uses NFC and AR real-world tags with unique IDs to enable scanning across devices, secure authenticity verification, and personalized digital rewards. It offers an SDK supporting native iOS, Android, Unity, Adobe Air and Cocos2dx, along with digital reward control and a reporting dashboard for app integration. The company completed a $2M seed round led by a group of investors and has opened an official online store as the first retail outlet for PowerCore-Ready digitally tagged merchandise. PowerCore’s product roadmap emphasizes extending digital experiences into the physical world through tagged merchandise and continued partnerships with game companies and brands.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2016