• Dreamscape Immersive

  Participated · Series B · Dec 2017

  Dreamscape delivers location-based VR “adventures” across four sites worldwide using proprietary full-body tracking and cinematic storytelling to create untethered, participatory experiences. Its ADEPT (Avatar Driven Educational and Practical Training) platform and rendering/tracking tech aim to reproduce real-world feel for both entertainment and training. Dreamscape has partnered with Arizona State University on Dreamscape Learn to bring avatar-based AR/VR to on-campus and online courses, including an immersive biology curriculum with a 16x16-foot pod planned for 2021. The company’s founders include former DreamWorks Motion Pictures head Walter Parkes and Disney Imagineering alum Bruce Vaughn. Dreamscape’s investor base includes entertainment names such as WarnerMedia, Viacom, Disney, AMC, IMAX, Steven Spielberg, and Hans Zimmer. Verizon Ventures has taken an equity stake and will collaborate on 5G- and mobile edge compute–powered learning and training applications; financial terms were not disclosed. Dreamscape Immersive is a Los Angeles-based location-based virtual reality company that offers untethered VR experiences using body-mapping technology created by Swiss research institute Artanim. Founded in January 2017 by co-chairmen Walter Parkes and Kevin Wall alongside CEO Bruce Vaughn and COO Aaron Grosky, the company builds cinematic, interactive worlds for participants to enter and explore. Its flagship location was slated to open to the public at Westfield Century City Mall in Los Angeles in 2018. Dreamscape has a strategic partnership with AMC Entertainment, with AMC committed to open and operate up to six Dreamscape VR centers within AMC theatres and at standalone locations in North America and the U.K. The company intends to use new funding to scale operations, build a marquee slate of content, and further global expansion into new territories. Financially, Dreamscape closed a $30M Series B financing to support those plans. Dreamscape Immersive is a Los Angeles-based developer of immersive virtual reality entertainment experiences. It builds location-based VR entertainment offerings intended for public entertainment centers. The company said it plans to open a flagship "VR Multiplex" at the Westfield Century City Mall in fall of this year. Dreamscape raised a Series A financing; the company did not publicly disclose the round size, though a regulatory filing indicates around $11.36M. The Series A was led by Bold Capital Partners and included Warner Bros., 21st Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), IMAX Corporation, Westfield Corporation, and Steven Spielberg. Founders and co-chairmen are Walter Parkes and Kevin Wall, and Bruce Vaughn, formerly of Disney Imagineering, was named CEO.

• Super League Enterprise

  Participated · Series C · Jun 2017

  Super League Gaming is a global community platform that offers accessible esports competitions, content and social interactions for amateur gamers. Its platform hosts both online and in-person gaming arenas and enables local gaming experiences, recreational and competitive play, content creation and social networking for players of all ages and skill levels. Founded in 2014, the company began with Minecraft events in movie theaters for kids and has since hosted more than 30,000 kids across six seasons of play. In November 2016 the company expanded its competitive events to include League of Legends in partnership with Riot Games. The company is led by CEO Ann Hand. Financially, Super League completed a $15M Series C and has raised more than $28M to date. Super League Gaming operates an interactive video-game league that stages competitive events in movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada. Founded in 2014 and led by CEO Ann Hand, the company began in the summer of 2015 and is now in its fifth season of Minecraft competition. Its current series, Metropolis Madness, is played in more than 50 theaters across 30 markets in the U.S. and Canada. The company has raised $20M in total funding to date. It intends to use the new funds to launch additional programs for Metropolis Madness. Super League Gaming operates recreational leagues that gather gamers in movie theaters to compete collaboratively using their laptops and mobile devices, with gameplay merged into a single aerial view projected onto the big screen. The company runs six-week league sessions where teams climb a national leaderboard and compete for prizes, and it partners with major chains including Cinemark, Regal, AMC and luxury iPic Theaters. Following a summer preseason tour across 25 major cities and engagement with over 10,000 gamers, Super League planned a Fall League session on Oct. 6 featuring Minecraft and expansion into over 70 U.S. theater gaming arenas. The company intends to add multiple mainstream PC and mobile game titles in the coming months and to expand theater gaming globally in 2016. Founded in 2014 and led by John Miller and Ann Hand, Super League is based in Santa Monica, Calif.

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