Date | Title | Description |
11.03.2021 | Tysons-based AR software company Upskill acquired | Upskill, an augmented reality software company that has grown from a base in Tysons Corner, was acquired this month by TeamViewer, a German company that provides remote connectivity solutions.
With the acquisition, Upskill becomes a subsidi... |
31.01.2021 | Employee Experience Is Becoming As Important As Customer Experience: VR And AR Can Unlock EX’s Full Potential | Immerse |
21.12.2020 | Using Wearable AR For Enterprise Training | Co-Founder and COO at VR Vision Inc an immersive technology group that is developing virtual and augmented reality solutions for the future. |
25.04.2019 | How AR and VR are driving return on investment in the Enterprise Reality Ecosystem | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
While consumer AR/VR is proving itself, enterprise AR/VR is already delivering strong return on investment for major corporations like ... |
25.04.2019 | How AR and VR are driving return on investment in the Enterprise Reality Ecosystem | While consumer AR/VR is proving itself, enterprise AR/VR is already delivering strong return on investment for major corporations like Walmart, Lockheed Martin, and Verizon. But the market remains a series of connected point solutions, not ... |
09.10.2018 | Upskill brings hands-on worker AR platform Skylight to HoloLens | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Already available across everything from Google Glass to mobile devices and various enterprise-specific augmented reality headsets, Ups... |
09.10.2018 | Upskill launches support for Microsoft HoloLens | Upskill has been working on a platform to support augmented and mixed reality for almost as long as most people have been aware of the concept. It began developing an agnostic AR/MR platform way back in 2010. Google Glass didn’t even appear... |
07.03.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, March 7 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Patricia Nakache, a general partner at Trinity Ventures, calls her path to venture capital “serendipitous.” In 1999, she had recently left McKinsey & Company to join a startup at the peak of the dot-com boom.
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06.03.2018 | Upskill Raises $17.2M from NEA | Upskill said it raised $17.2 million from new investors Accenture and Cisco Investments, and existing investors Boeing HorizonX, GE Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. Other unnamed industrial-focused investors participated.
Upskill and... |
06.03.2018 | Upskill Raises $17.2M in Funding | Upskill, a Washington, DC-based provider of enterprise augmented reality (AR) software, raised $17.2m in funding.
Backers included new investors Accenture and Cisco Investments, existing backers Boeing HorizonX, GE Ventures, New Enterprise ... |
06.03.2018 | Upskill Raises $17.2M from NEA | Upskill said it raised $17.2 million from new investors Accenture and Cisco Investments, and existing investors Boeing HorizonX, GE Ventures and New Enterprise Associates. Other unnamed industrial-focused investors participated.
Upskill and... |
06.03.2018 | Accenture and Cisco Invest in Virginia AR Startup Upskill | Upskill can now add Accenture and Cisco to its list of notable investors.
On Tuesday, the enterprise augmented reality startup announced a $17.2 million capital raise to support its growth and product development plans. Both Accenture and C... |
06.03.2018 | Upskill Closes $17.2M Investments From Four Industry Leaders | Upskill, the leader in enterprise augmented reality (AR) software, today announces that it has raised $17.2 million in new capital to support increased growth and product development. The funding round adds new investors including Accenture... |
01.03.2018 | Netflix’s Altered Carbon shows us a future where augmented reality is everywhere | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Netflix recently released a notable foray into the world of science fiction with Altered Carbon, a series adapted from a novel by Richa... |
01.03.2018 | Netflix’s Altered Carbon shows us a future where augmented reality is everywhere | Netflix recently released a notable foray into the world of science fiction with Altered Carbon, a series adapted from a novel by Richard K. Morgan. In the show’s vision of the future, humanity has learned how to store and transmit consciou... |
11.10.2017 | How Upskill is helping industry use augmented reality | Remember Google Glass? It’s back!
While the smart glasses never found footing in the consumer space, it appears heavy industry and enterprise customers have found uses for the technology.
Think of businesses using smart glasses so they can ... |
10.10.2017 | Upskill Skylight update aimed at bringing augmented reality to mainstream | Upskill wants to be the development platform for your smart glasses, regardless of the brand. This agnostic approach is fairly unusual for companies building augmented reality applications and it provides enterprises with a neutral way to b... |
06.10.2017 | Here are the winners of the 2017 Timmy Awards | The 2017 Timmy Awards took place last week, at 1776 Crystal City. The awards recognize leaders in DC Tech for creating some of the best places for tech professionals to work. The event, organized through the local Meetup chapter of Tech in ... |
27.09.2017 | How AR development skills transfer from entertainment to the enterprise | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Augmented reality technology has emerged as a valuable tool in the enterprise, delivering actionable instructions, data and other infor... |
27.09.2017 | How AR development skills transfer from entertainment to the enterprise | Augmented reality technology has emerged as a valuable tool in the enterprise, delivering actionable instructions, data and other information directly to workers via wearables devices. In fact, some of today’s largest manufacturers, like Bo... |
30.08.2017 | How connected devices are revolutionizing mobile field services | While the impressive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) is often measured in revenue for the devices that enable it, the “soft revenue” potential is even more impressive. Connected devices, supported by analytics and software, are boost... |
10.06.2017 | How augmented reality could save tech from itself | We’ve all heard the predictions that artificial intelligence, and by extension robotics, is gunning for our jobs.
Indeed, as technology marches relentlessly forward, it feels like many of today’s positions could soon be displaced. But just ... |
11.05.2017 | Upskill acquires Pristine, another company in the AR-for-manufacturing space | Upskill, the Herndon, Va.-based company that makes augmented reality software to help manufacturers do safe and timely work, announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Austin, Texas-based Pristine. Pristine works in a similar space, providin... |
06.04.2017 | Upskill raises Seris B from venture arms of Boeing, GE | Herndon, Va.-based Upskill (previously APX Labs), the creator of augmented reality software for manufacturing, announced Wednesday that the company has raised a Series B. Interestingly the round was led by the venture arms of Boeing and GE,... |
06.04.2017 | Upskill Raises Seris B From Venture Arms Of Boeing, GE | Herndon, Va.-based Upskill (previously APX Labs), the creator of augmented reality software for manufacturing, announced Wednesday that the company has raised a Series B. Interestingly the round was led by the venture arms of Boeing and GE,... |
05.04.2017 | Upskill Closes Series B Funding | Upskill (formerly APX Labs), a Herndon, VA-based provider of enterprise software for industrial augmented reality (AR) wearables, secured a Series B funding round of undisclosed amount.
Backers included Boeing and GE Ventures, New Enterpris... |
05.04.2017 | Upskill Raises Series B Funding from Boeing and GE Ventures | Upskill (formerly APX Labs), the leader in enterprise software for industrial augmented reality (AR) wearables, today announced it has secured Series B funding from Boeing and GE Ventures—two of Upskill's largest customers—along with existi... |
05.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 5 | GO FOR IT
Good morning! Quick one today:
The company is pitching its team, apps, and technology around surfacing “good” content and handling engagement of communities at scale. One problem with that pitch is that Yik Yak doesn’t have a lot ... |
13.03.2017 | Here are 6 fresh #dctech jobs to apply for this week | On the Market is a Technical.ly column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.When working in the startup world, the highs are high and... |
03.03.2017 | NextGen Venture Partners just raised a $22 million fund from 83 investors | NextGen Venture Partners, a young, Washington, D.C.-based venture firm that’s quarterbacked by a handful of investors but fueled financially by a network of hundreds of part-time investors who help with its portfolio, has raised $22 million... |
18.01.2017 | APX Labs is now Upskill | Herndon, Va.-based APX Labs announced on Monday that it has changed its name to Upskill. According to a press release, the name change is meant to “better reflect its mission to elevate the impact of people in the connected industrial workp... |
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