Did You Miss Tribe 7 Demo Day? Here’s What Happened…
Congratulations to Tribe 7 on a fantastic Demo Day! Tribe 7 was the first demo day in history recorded in 360 video, with a Jaunt Camera! We ran out of chairs, about 50 investors had to stand in the back. This goes to show that investors are hungry for Blockchain and Virtual Reality investments!
With the addition of Tribe 7, our portfolio stands at 140 companies w/ 55 Blockchain and 34 Virtual Reality, making Boost VC the most active investor in both of those sectors.
We are very excited for 2016, the year of Blockchain and Virtual Reality!
Realities: Explore real, mesmerizing places in Virtual Reality — virtual tourism larger than life!
Do you want to travel around the world and see the wonders it has to offer? With Realities, you can do exactly that — from the comfort of your own home. The team at realities.io is building THE platform for photo-realistic Virtual Reality environments: We offer our users the ability to explore some of the most mesmerizing places around the globe that we transport 1:1 into VR by using a sophisticated and highly optimized photogrammetry workflow.
Boondogl is the world’s first platform agnostic digital game subscription service.
Boondogl is a multiplatform digital game subscription service. We unite the ever-fragmenting gaming hardware market through a service that provides unlimited, instant access to games on desktop, mobile, console, and VR devices. Boondogl delivers native web builds of games to all devices via a proprietary website on desktops and native apps on consoles/mobile devices. We have solved the technological challenges associated with multiplatform game distribution, and we’re revolutionizing the way games will be delivered and ingested.
3D-SensIR captures reality to enable augmented reality. Works outdoors.
3D-SensIR is a sensor hardware company located in the greater Los Angeles area. We build handheld 3D camera systems that transform reality into photorealistic 3D-models directly on site in real time. The company’s core expertise is in designing and manufacturing of 3D laser scanners based on micro-mirror chips. 3D-SensIR’s team has more than 15+ years of industrial experience in bringing early stage sensor technologies to market. Our vision is to capture reality to enable augmented reality in real-time by providing smart 3D sensor solutions.
Bouncy lets you turn 360 videos into interactive and actionable narratives.
Bouncy is a mobile VR sharing and messaging network that lets you edit, customize and annotate VR content, and share it either publicly or privately on Bouncy or on variety of other mediums such as Facebook. Virtual reality makes extraordinary ways of storytelling and creative expression a reality for a new generation of users. Bouncy enables you to experience and share VR video and photography as an interactive and actionable medium where you can self-express your creativity by using the full potential of VR storytelling.
Imgnation Studio: We are a game developing studio and great VR content is our business.
IMGNATION Studio is a game development studio from the south of Brazil, focused on creating great VR games. We are now developing the most bad ass racing game for virtual reality. Set in a dystopian world, you race inside insanely fast one wheeled bikes, fighting your way to the top!
Quark VR: Develop Once. Run on every VR headset.
We enable developers to create their VR app once and run it on every VR headset. That means you can create an app for the Oculus Rift and the same app will work on the Gear VR and Google Cardboard. Our amazing streaming technology allows for sharing the same experience across
all VR platforms.
Jig Space: Create and share 3D instructions for anything.
People learn better in 3D, but until now we haven’t had the tools to do that in an inexpensive and accessible way. JigSpace is the platform for creating and sharing interactive, 3D instructions for anything. It’s simple, powerful and available on all devices. Try it out today!
Shield128 is intelligent security for the blockchain.
Shield128 is a cybersecurity startup specializing in securing digital transactions on the blockchain we provide an intelligent security solution for financial firms adopting blockchain technology securing the future of digital finance.
Mailman: Get paid to read your email.
Mailman is a priority messaging service for emails and text messages. A fast line for important communications. Your contact information stays private, while senders are charged an adjustable fee for the privilege to send you an immediate message. Mailman is the winner of the Global Coinbase Bithack v2, first prize.
Meshable: Make internet more affordable.
GetWiFi by Meshable is creating an economy for excess 4G data (the Airbnb of Internet). GetWiFi has over 1,000 daily active users with zero marketing budget. The GetWiFi team comprises of engineers and product managers from the top Silicon Valley companies.
Fabric: The virtual reality platform for fine art.
FABRIC is the Virtual Reality Platform for Art that brings artists and art lovers to the power of VR. It publishes and distributes mind blowing art content that is only possible because of this new medium. FABRIC consists of a great team of Virtual Reality programmers and modellers, and with the longstanding art world connections of CEO Philip Hausmeier brings an extensive network of established artists and curators to the Virtual Reality industry. With the kickstart of its platform and several cutting edge VR exhibitions in the fall of 2016 FABRIC will push the boundaries of what can be possible in art beyond physical reality.
Orb: Professional 3D-360 Video Camera
In virtual reality, 3D is the difference between feeling like you’re in a giant bubble, and feeling like you’re really there. However, only two pro 3D-360 cameras are available, and prices range from the tens-to-hundreds of thousands of dollars. Orb maxes out the specifications of all first-gen HMDs at 1/10th of the price of its closest competitor.
Orosim: Online Virtual Training for Healthcare Professionals.
Orosim is a VR training platform for healthcare professionals. Through the combined efforts of engineers, doctors and 3D artists, we created the closest thing to treating a patient online. With our technology, clinicians can practice procedures and learn from the world’s best clinicians right from the comfort of their own homes. Healthcare professionals can finally master complex clinical procedures, without ever touching a patient.
Ownership: Intellectual Property Protection with the Blockchain Technology.
Ownership Technology offers smart, efficient and convenient cloud based IT solutions to enterprises around the world. By using the blockchain technology, our products and services provide a perfect anti-counterfeiting solution.
SculptrVR is multiplayer world-building application that lets users share a virtual space and build solid, interactive worlds together.
SculptrVR is an interactive world-builder for VR. It’s a launch title for the HTC Vive. You can build at any scale. Make yourself as large as a mountain or as small as a flower. Build a detailed world, explore it from a different scale, and then blow it up.
Stampery leverages the blockchain to generate an immutable record of existence, integrity and ownership for any file, document or communication.
Stampery is the XXI century notary using the Bitcoin blockchain to remove the need of trust for digital data certification. Trust is a cost, it’s not scalable and a security hole. Stampery brings massive improvements in terms of auditability, attribution and accountability for files, document, communications and entire file systems. Billions of data sets can be notarized in real time on the blockchain thanks to our proprietary scalability solution, making records impossible to modify, damage or destroy and valid globally. Enter a new world of compliance and security based on mathematical truth instead of blind trust.
V, the Universal Marketplace for VR in VR.
V is the first widget/utility platform for VR. With V, you can take widgets like Slack, Spotify, and Twitter with you into VR. And to pull it off, V created a revolutionary technology that gives you the power to inject our platform into any game, app, or video. So no matter where you go in your virtual life, your digital life is by your side. Join for our private beta at hellov.io
SpaceSys is a Virtual Reality Operating System Environment, expanding your computing experience into a whole new dimension.
SpaceSys is the Virtual Reality Computing Platform. We enable users to control their whole operating system inside Virtual Reality. Anyone in need of multiple displays benefits using SpaceSys as it allows having as many as you want inside VR environment. SpaceSys not only boosts your productivity, but also cuts down costs of hardware, energy and manpower in enterprise.
Prime: Step inside software with collaborative graphical programming in VR.
PRIME is a VR collaboration engine that allows programmers to view a graphical representation of their code and analyze it. It is the Google maps that an enterprise will use to navigate millions of lines of code in VR. Applications include network infrastructure, enterprise software, and aerospace.
One Caring Team: With our AlohaVR Programs, we bring joy and happiness to lonely seniors.
For Dementia patients, anxious, or bored seniors who want to feel alive again, our unique solution is a non-invasive, therapeutic VR program that reduces stress and anxiety without pharmacological side effects. Unlike anxiety medicines or TV, our VR program enables seniors to escape into a totally immersive, relaxing worlds.
