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Within is the premier destination for innovative, entertaining, and informative story-based virtual and augmented reality.
Overview
Location
United States, California
Employees
51-200
Total raised
$52.6M
Founded date
2014
Investors 1
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Funding Rounds 2
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| Jun 17, 2016 | Series A round | $12.56M |
Mentions in press and media 31
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| Apr 17, 2020 | This Week In XR: Within Scores At The Buzzer | Week five of captivity. We’re spending more time in XR collaboration and conferencing sites. Writing a book about it is our excuse. Also, it keeps us from thinking about the Zombie apocalypse. |
| Jun 6, 2019 | Peeka hopes to spark kids’ passion for reading by immersing them in VR-enhanced books | The Peeka founders, from left to right: Alex Comfortes, chief financial and chief strategic officer; CEO Michael Wong; and Hunter Stutsman, vice president of business development. (Peeka Photo) Michael Wong might be the only tech entreprene... |
| Aug 28, 2018 | How AR and VR Can Make Students Laugh and Cry Out Loud—and Embed Them in Their Learning | How do you captivate a classroom full of digital-since-birth students? According to one Tennessee college professor, you do it by creating immersive learning experiences.. . . students would cry, laugh out loud, even get angry after an imme... |
| Jun 13, 2018 | Within leverages WebVR to offer device-agnostic VR videos via the web | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Until recently, finding new virtual reality content to watch has generally required use of a VR device maker’s app store, but Within wa... |
| Apr 28, 2018 | This year’s Tribeca Film Festival uses AR and VR to explore music-making and empathy | Visiting the Immersive arcade at the Tribeca Film Festival is always challenging. Every year, there are way more virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to try out (not to mention creators to interview) than I can squeeze into jus... |
| Jan 17, 2018 | Volumetric photogrammetry — big words, bigger impact on VR | Ben Bloch Contributor Ben Bloch is a Los Angeles-based serial entrepreneur. He is best known for his focus on emerging business opportunities at IBM, followed by contributing his leadership in three startup exits, including clean-tech compa... |
| Nov 21, 2017 | Augmented and virtual reality companies have raised $2.3 billion this year, already matching 2016 | AR and VR entertainment apps have seen a 79 percent increase in investment year-over-year 2017 is coming to a close pretty soon, but it's not quite over yet. Still, that hasn't kept The Venture Reality Fund, a global venture capital firm th... |
| Aug 9, 2017 | Here Be Dragons VR studio closes $10 million Series A led by Discovery | Here Be Dragons, an immersive production studio focused on virtual reality content, has closed a $10 million Series A round led by Discovery Communications with participation also coming from David Droga and David Jones. The raise sets the ... |
| Jul 27, 2017 | Temasek, Emerson Collective lead $40m Series B in US virtual reality startup Within | Premium Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings and Emerson Collective have led a $40 million Series B round in Los Angeles-based virtual and augmented reality startup Within. Additional investors in the round include advertising major WP... |
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FAQ about Within
When was Within founded?
Within was founded in 2014.
How much funding has Within raised?
Within has raised $52.6M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has Within raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Within, among them a Series A round of $12.56M on Jun 17, 2016.
What has the press written about Within?
Parsers VC has collected 31 articles mentioning Within, among them “This Week In XR: Within Scores At The Buzzer” (Apr 17, 2020) and “Peeka hopes to spark kids’ passion for reading by immersing them in VR-enhanced books” (Jun 6, 2019).
Is Within still active?
Yes, Within is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 27, 2022.