Surrogate.tv offers an ultra-low-latency streaming and robotics bundle that lets users remotely control real-world objects for games and experiences. The platform hosts a diverse range of attractions from pinball and claw machines to battling robots and user-driven events like a Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit tournament. The site has demonstrated partnerships and branded events, including a tie-in with Ubisoft featuring miniature Viking ships and a challenge against strongman Hafþór Björnsson. The company acknowledges latency as a practical limitation in some experiences but highlights its technology as the core differentiator. Surrogate.tv plans to expand beyond its own entertainment site by licensing or offering its teleoperation technology to third parties. The seed raise is intended to fund a string of new initiatives to enable novel remote experiences. Surrogate.tv bills itself as a reality-focused game development and video streaming technology company. It is developing a game portfolio that integrates real-life elements into gameplay alongside its proprietary low-latency video streaming technology, SurroRTG. The company says its aim is to bring real-life online gaming to the masses by rethinking how games use real-world input rather than simulated physics and graphics. Shane Allen, co-founder and CEO, has framed the approach as using the real world as a major element of the gaming experience. Surrogate intends to release its first mini-games in August 2019. Financially, the company has completed a seed funding round to support those development and streaming efforts.

Total raised

$5M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Dec 2020