| Date |
Type |
Companies involved |
Size |
|
May 25th, 2022 |
investment |
Lynx
|
$4m
|
| Ambitious 'European Champion of Mixed Reality' raises $4M Series A funding |
|
Apr 8th, 2022 |
investment |
|
$50m
|
| DigiLens raises more than $50 million in new investments |
|
Apr 7th, 2022 |
acquisition |
Niantic
NZXR
|
Not disclosed
|
| Niantic acquires New Zealand AR studio NZXR |
|
Mar 30th, 2022 |
investment |
Bitkraft Ventures
|
$8.5m
|
| LIV raises $8.5 million to empower VR and AR content creators |
|
Mar 31st, 2022 |
investment |
Nreal
|
$60m
|
| Nreal raises $60 million in Series C+ funding |
|
Mar 30th, 2022 |
investment |
nDreams
|
$35m
|
| VR firm NDreams lands $35m investment |
|
Mar 28th, 2022 |
investment |
|
$3.8m
|
| Web 3.0 XR social startup secures $3.75 million investment |
|
Mar 24th, 2022 |
acquisition |
Google
|
Not disclosed
|
| Google eyes the future for its AR Glasses, acquires microLED firm |
|
Mar 24th, 2022 |
acquisition |
Snap Inc.
|
Not disclosed
|
| AR glasses firm Snap acquires brain-computer interface startup |
|
Mar 22nd, 2022 |
investment |
|
$35m
|
| VR studio Ramen lands $35m Series B |
|
Mar 11th, 2022 |
acquisition |
Niantic
8th Wall
|
Not disclosed
|
| Niantic Acquires 8th Wall To Empower AR Metaverse |
|
Feb 17th, 2022 |
partnership |
Niantic
Sony
|
Not disclosed
|
| Niantic and Sony partner for spatial audio in augmented reality |
|
Jan 17th, 2022 |
investment |
Meta
|
Not disclosed
|
| Meta gives new Reality Labs grant to Godot Game Engine |
|
Jan 10th, 2022 |
investment |
|
$45m
|
| Mojo Vision raises $45 million Series B-1 funding for its AR smart lenses |
|
Dec 17th, 2021 |
investment |
|
$7m
|
| Augmented Reality Dev Jadu Raises $7 Million For Its ‘Mirrorverse’ |
|
Dec 15th, 2021 |
acquisition |
Nike
|
Not disclosed
|
| Nike acquires augmented/mixed reality studio RTFKT |
|
Dec 15th, 2021 |
acquisition |
People Can Fly
|
Not disclosed
|
| People Can Fly snaps up VR specialist Incuvo |
|
Dec 13th, 2021 |
investment |
|
$1m
|
| VRJAM Closes $1 Million Seed Round For Its Music Metaverse |
|
Dec 13th, 2021 |
investment |
Affyn
|
$7m
|
| Affyn raises $7 million for F2P P2E AR metaverse mobile game |
|
Nov 24th, 2021 |
|
Niantic
|
$300m
|
| Niantic raises $300 million to build out a real-world metaverse |
|
Nov 15th, 2021 |
investment |
HIKKY
|
$57m
|
| Virtual Reality startup HIKKY raises $57 million in Series A funding |
|
Nov 9th, 2021 |
acquisition |
Qualcomm
|
Not disclosed
|
| Qualcomm reveals a new XR developer platform, acquires HINS SAS and Clay AIR |
|
Nov 5th, 2021 |
acquisition |
Meta
|
Not disclosed
|
| Meta acquires Supernatural VR fitness game studio, Within |
|
Oct 7th, 2021 |
acquisition |
Niantic
|
Not disclosed
|
| Niantic acquires developer experience firm Hoss |
|
Sep 28th, 2021 |
investment |
Nreal
|
$100m
|
| AR glasses firm Nreal raises $100 million investment |
|
Sep 23rd, 2021 |
other |
Oculus
|
Not disclosed
|
| Oculus hands back Quill to its creator |
|
Aug 31st, 2021 |
acquisition |
ByteDance
|
Not disclosed
|
| ByteDance acquires Pico; Chinese VR set for the global stage? |
|
Aug 17th, 2021 |
investment |
StatusPRO
|
$5.2m
|
| StatusPRO raises $5.2 million seed round led by KB Partners and TitletownTech |
|
Aug 16th, 2021 |
investment |
XR Games
|
$2.1m
£1.5m
|
| XR Games secures $2 million in funding to open 20 new jobs in Leeds |
|
Aug 13th, 2021 |
acquisition |
Niantic
Scaniverse
|
Not disclosed
|
| Pokémon GO creator Niantic acquires 3D scanning app Scaniverse |
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Oct 17th, 2022
