Top 26 Augmented Reality Startups in 2024

1) CLO Virtual Fashion

CLO Virtual Fashion creates lifelike 3D garment simulation technology for the fashion, film, and gaming sectors.

Details of the startup:

• Country: South Korea
• State: Seoul-t'ukpyolsi
• City: Seoul
• Started in: 2009
• Founders: Jaden Oh, JH Boo
• Number of employees: 101-250
• Funding: ₩6,000,000,000
• Funding rounds: 2
• Number of investors: 4 (Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Atinum Investment, Stonebridge Capital, KDB Capital)

You can find their website here.

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2) UX3D

In 3D, UX3D offers GPU-based products and solutions for disruptive technologies such as AI, XR, and eCommerce.

Details of the startup:

• Country: Germany
• State: Bayern
• City: Munich
• Started in: 2017
• Founders: Norbert Nopper, Thomas Kress
• Number of employees: 11-50
• Funding: € 990,000
• Funding rounds: 4
• Number of investors: 1 (Unger Group)

You can find their website here.

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3) CGTrader

CGTrader is the world's leading provider of high-quality 3D content for e-commerce, gaming, virtual reality, entertainment, and 3D printing.

Details of the startup:

• Country: Lithuania
• State: Vilniaus Apskritis
• City: Vilnius
• Started in: 2012
• Founders: Dalia Lasaite, Marius Kalytis
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $12,112,321
• Funding rounds: 4
• Number of investors: 5 (Intel Capital, Practica Capital, Karma Ventures, Evli Growth Partners, Baris Aksoy)

You can find their website here.

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4) bdeo

Bdeo is a visual intelligence company that aims to alter the way people interact with insurance companies.

Details of the startup:

• Country: Spain
• State: Madrid
• City: Madrid
• Started in: 2017
• Founders: Julio Pernía Aznar , Manuel Moreno
• Number of employees: 11-50
• Funding: € 6,300,000
• Funding rounds: 5
• Number of investors: 6 (Startupbootcamp, K Fund, BlackFin Capital Partners, Big Sur Ventures, Finnovista)

You can find their website here.

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5) MapsPeople

MapsPeople creates a cloud-based SaaS indoor navigation software that enables users to navigate huge, complicated buildings with ease.

Details of the startup:

• Country: Denmark
• State: Nordjylland
• City: Nørresundby
• Started in: 1997
• Founders: Michael Gram
• Number of employees: 101-250
• Funding: DKK53,000,000
• Funding rounds: 2
• Number of investors: 3 (Vaekstfonden, Nordic Secondary Fund, VF Venture)

You can find their website here.

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6) JigSpace

Clients can use JigSpace to make and share dynamic spatial presentations.

Details of the startup:

• Country: Australia
• State: Victoria
• City: Melbourne
• Started in: 2015
• Founders: Zac Duff, Numa Bertron
• Number of employees: 11-50
• Funding: $6,100,000
• Funding rounds: 3
• Number of investors: 12 (General Catalyst, Investible, Boost VC, Rampersand, Eleanor Venture)

You can find their website here.

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7) Adverty

Adverty is a cutting-edge advertising platform.

Details of the startup:

• Country: Sweden
• State: Stockholms Lan
• City: Stockholm
• Started in: 2016
• Founders: Niklas Bakos
• Number of employees: 11-50
• Funding: $3,767,824
• Funding rounds: 3
• Number of investors: 3 (EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, Daniel Daboczy, Pontus Dahlstrom)

You can find their website here.

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8) Resolution Games

Resolution Games is a virtual reality and augmented reality game development company.

Details of the startup:

• Country: Sweden
• State: Stockholms Lan
• City: Stockholm
• Started in: 2015
• Founders: Martin Vilcans, Måns Ullerstam, Paul Brady, Tommy Palm
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $13,500,000
• Funding rounds: 2
• Number of investors: 11 (GV, Creandum, Partech, Bonnier Ventures, David Helgason)

You can find their website here.

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9) Play Shifu

PlayShifu is an EdTech company that provides teaching and learning tools for kids aged 4 to 12.

Details of the startup:

• Country: India
• State: Karnataka
• City: Bengaluru
• Started in: 2016
• Founders: Dinesh Advani, Vivek Goyal
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $28,438,340
• Funding rounds: 5
• Number of investors: 10 (Trifecta Capital Advisors, Chiratae Ventures, Chiratae Ventures, Survam Partners, Inflexor Ventures)

You can find their website here.

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10) Avataar.Me

Avataar.Me is a high-tech provider of AR and VR services that are utilized to turn 2D design materials into 3D social media campaigns.

Details of the startup:

• Country: India
• State: Karnataka
• City: Bengaluru
• Started in: 2016
• Founders: Gaurav Baid, Mayank Tiwari, Prashanth Aluru, Sravanth Aluru
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $7,000,000
• Funding rounds: 1
• Number of investors: 1 (Sequoia Capital India)

You can find their website here.

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11) Nreal

Nreal is a company that creates mixed reality glasses that are ready to wear.

Details of the startup:

• Country: China
• State: Beijing
• City: Beijing
• Started in: 2017
• Founders: Bing Xiao, Chi Xu
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $71,000,000
• Funding rounds: 5
• Number of investors: 12 (CICC, Sequoia Capital China, Kuaishou Technology, iQiyi, GL Ventures)

You can find their website here.

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12) Rokid

Rokid is a cutting-edge technology firm that focuses on robotics research and AI development.

Details of the startup:

• Country: China
• State: Zhejiang
• City: Hangzhou
• Started in: 2014
• Founders: Eric Wong, Mingming Zhu
• Number of employees: 251-500
• Funding: $158,300,000
• Funding rounds: 4
• Number of investors: 9 (Temasek Holdings, Credit Suisse, IDG Capital, Advantech Capital, Walden International)

You can find their website here.

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13) DataMesh

XR platform + Digital Twin

Details of the startup:

• Country: China
• State: Beijing
• City: Beijing
• Started in: 2014
• Founders: Jie Li
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $3,095,574
• Funding rounds: 4
• Number of investors: 2 (IDG Capital, Qianhai Wutong Mergers and Acquisitions Funds)

You can find their website here.

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14) DGene

DGene is a provider of virtual reality solutions.

Details of the startup:

• Country: China
• State: Shanghai
• City: Shanghai
• Started in: 2016
• Founders: Jason Yang, Jingyi Yu, Xu Hong, Yi Ma
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $21,326,887
• Funding rounds: 4
• Number of investors: 6 (Alibaba Group, IDG Capital, SAIF Partners, GSR Ventures, Shanghai Alliance Investment)

You can find their website here.

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15) 51WORLD

Infrastructure provider for digital twins

Details of the startup:

• Country: China
• State: Beijing
• City: Beijing
• Started in: 2015
• Founders: Archer Li, Oscar Xue, Yi Li
• Number of employees: 251-500
• Funding: $45,000,000
• Funding rounds: 3
• Number of investors: 9 (SenseTime, Silicon Valley Bank, Tujia, Green Pine Capital Partners, Lightspeed China Partners)

You can find their website here.

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16) Pimax VR

Pimax designs and manufactures VR headsets in 4K and 8K resolutions.

Details of the startup:

• Country: China
• State: Shanghai
• City: Shanghai
• Started in: 2015
• Founders: Robin Weng, Veni Tang
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $19,236,618
• Funding rounds: 2
• Number of investors: 2 (Shenzhen O-film Technology, Tianma Bearing Group)

You can find their website here.

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17) HiScene

HiScene is a company that focuses on studying and creating fundamental augmented reality technology and solutions.

Details of the startup:

• Country: China
• State: Shanghai
• City: Shanghai
• Started in: 2012
• Founders: Chunyuan Liao
• Number of employees: 1-10
• Funding: $67,596,276
• Funding rounds: 6
• Number of investors: 12 (GGV Capital, Meitu, VStar Capital, Ondine Capital, Junsan Capital)

You can find their website here.

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18) Magic Leap

Magic Leap is a wearable technology developed by Magic Leap that allows users to interact with digital gadgets in a purely visual cinematic manner.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: Florida
• City: Plantation
• Started in: 2010
• Founders: Brian Schowengerdt, Rony Abovitz
• Number of employees: 1001-5000
• Funding: $2,978,500,000
• Funding rounds: 10
• Number of investors: 27 (Alibaba Group, Google, Temasek Holdings, Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity Management and Research Company)

You can find their website here.

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19) The Wild

The Wild is a virtual and augmented reality-based immersive collaboration platform that helps architecture, design, and enterprise teams save time and make better decisions by allowing them to experience their work together in a shared virtual area.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: Oregon
• City: Portland
• Started in: 2017
• Founders: Gabe Paez
• Number of employees: 11-50
• Funding: $3,125,000
• Funding rounds: 4
• Number of investors: 6 (Oregon Venture Fund, Portland Seed Fund, Elevate Capital, Ideaship, at.inc/)

You can find their website here.

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20) RED 6

ATARS is a system developed by RED 6 that allows real pilots in real planes to fly and visually maneuver against any synthetically generated enemy in real time.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: California
• City: Santa Monica
• Started in: 2018
• Founders: Nick Bicanic
• Number of employees: 11-50
• Funding: $40,850,000
• Funding rounds: 5
• Number of investors: 10 (Moonshots Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Snowpoint Ventures, IronGate Capital Advisors, Octave Ventures)

You can find their website here.

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21) Rec Room

Rec Room is a virtual world where you may play and create games with your friends.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: Washington
• City: Seattle
• Started in: 2016
• Founders: Bilal Orhan, Cameron Brown, Dan Kroymann, John Bevis, Josh Wehrly, Nick Fajt
• Number of employees: 101-250
• Funding: $149,000,000
• Funding rounds: 7
• Number of investors: 10 (Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Betaworks, Madrona Venture Group)

You can find their website here.

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22) Specular Theory, Inc.

Award-winning virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence (VR/AR/AI) training applications for the defense and commercial sectors. A Phase III SBIR firm. The company is based in Los Angeles, California.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: California
• City: Venice
• Started in: 2013
• Founders: Morris May, Ryan Pulliam
• Number of employees: 1-10
• Funding: $5,700,000
• Funding rounds: 2
• Number of investors: 1 (Toba Capital)

You can find their website here.

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23) Heru

Heru creates unique AI-powered vision diagnostics and augmentation software that can be used with commercially accessible AR/VR devices.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: Florida
• City: Miami
• Started in: 2018
• Number of employees: 11-50
• Funding: $32,700,000
• Funding rounds: 2
• Number of investors: 5 (SB Opportunity Fund, D1 Capital Partners, Krillion Ventures, Fred Moll, M.D, Maurice Ferre, M.D.)

You can find their website here.

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24) Second Spectrum

Second Spectrum is working on a game machine learning software that will use artificial intelligence to change sports.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: California
• City: Los Angeles
• Started in: 2013
• Founders: Jeff Su, Rajiv Maheswaran, Yu-Han Chang
• Number of employees: 51-100
• Funding: $20,099,998
• Funding rounds: 4
• Number of investors: 4 (LionTree, August Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, Elysian Park Ventures)

You can find their website here.

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25) Oculus

Oculus, which makes the Rift, creates virtual reality systems and technologies that allow users to experience anything with anybody.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: California
• City: Menlo Park
• Started in: 2012
• Founders: Brendan Iribe, Jack McCauley, Maxwell Planck, Michael Antonov, Mike LeBeau, Nate Mitchell, Palmer Luckey
• Number of employees: 501-1000
• Funding: $98,387,429
• Funding rounds: 5
• Number of investors: 10 (Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Formation 8)

You can find their website here.

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26) Niantic

Niantic develops augmented reality platforms for current and future AR hardware generations.

Details of the startup:

• Country: United States
• State: California
• City: San Francisco
• Started in: 2010
• Founders: John Hanke, Phil Keslin
• Number of employees: 101-250
• Funding: $470,000,000
• Funding rounds: 4
• Number of investors: 20 (Founders Fund, Google, Battery Ventures, Spark Capital, CRV)

You can find their website here.

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