The Venture Reality Fund is a venture capital firm in California that focuses on investing in artificial intelligence, augmented, mixed and virtual reality. Founded 2016 in Palo Alto, California, United States by Marco DeMiroz and Tipatat Chennavasin, it invests in early stage ventures, seed, series A, series B, and pre-seed. Its portfolio companies include Embodied Labs, Replica Studios, PlusOne, Doorstead, and Vantage Point. As of February 2020, The Venture Reality Fund has made 32 investments. Their most recent investment was on January 13, 2020, when Embodied Labs raised $3.2M. The Venture Reality Fund has had one exit, which was Owlchemy Labs. The company has raised a single venture fund, Venture Reality Fund I. This fund was announced on March 16, 2016 and raised a total of $50M.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Phiar Technologies is a company that provides a vehicle navigation platform based on the combined technologies of deep learning artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
Vivid Vision Clinical is a lazy eye treatment system. It is designed to let an optometrist have absolute control over a patients treatment and allow the patient to track progress.
GIBLIB is a Los Angeles-based company founded by Jihye Shin, Brian Conyer and Jason Han.
Obsess is a mobile application using virtual reality for mobile commerce.
Virtualitics is a Pasadena, California-based company founded in 2016.
8th Wall is a software company making a platform for the creation of mobile augmented reality experiences.
People
Hironao Kunimitsu
General Partner and Special Limited Partner
Marco DeMiroz
General Partner, Co-Founder
Tipatat Chennavasin
General Partner and Co-Founder
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
AIR (AI Redefined)
Apprentice.io
Artie
Doorstead
Embodied Labs
Phiar Technologies, Inc.
PlusOne
Proprio Vision
Replica Studios
YUR