VRChat
1062 Folsom St Ste 200, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States
Overview
VRChat is a social virtual reality platform enabling users to create, publish, and explore user-generated virtual worlds, avatars, games, events, and hangouts. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is available on Steam, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, and VIVEPORT, with additional platforms planned. The platform hosts millions of users, hundreds of thousands of worlds, over ten million unique avatars, and peaks at over 40,000 concurrent users; it is the top free VR application on both Steam and the Oculus Rift store. VRChat emphasizes creative freedom and has become a cultural phenomenon tied to internet memes, events, and online communities. The company plans to build a creator economy where members can earn, improve social discovery for more meaningful experiences, and expand to more platforms. VRChat is actively hiring to support continued development and community growth. VRChat is a social virtual-reality platform that enables users to create, publish and explore virtual worlds with other VR users around the world. The company positions itself to make VR more social. VRChat is available on HTC’s Viveport store. HTC led a $4 million investment in the company. Other investors in the round included Brightstone VC, GVR Fund, and Rothenberg Ventures. VRChat is a social virtual reality (VR) platform that allows users to create, publish, and explore VR worlds with other users around the world. The platform enables users to personalize experiences with custom avatars, worlds, hangouts, and game experiences and offers cross-platform VR support via Steam for Vive and Oculus Home. Additional platform integrations were planned throughout 2017. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, VRChat focuses on empowering users to build and share social VR content. The company raised a $1.2 million Seed investment to fund continued expansion and further product development. Leadership emphasizes VR’s immersive social presence and the company’s goal of providing one application with infinite social VR experiences.
- Total raised
- $85M
- Funding rounds
- 3
- Latest round
- Series D
- Latest activity
- Jun 2021
Industries
- Messaging
- Social
- Virtual Reality
Recent funding
Series D
Jun 2021
$80M
Equity
Sep 2017
$4M
Seed
Oct 2016
$1M