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Immersed

VR Offices (Partnered w/ Facebook)

Immersed

VR Offices (Partnered w/ Facebook)

Austin TX
Hardware Software Technology Virtual Reality Y Combinator
Every software development team I've ever been on or led has had the issue of video-conferencing/chat just not being the same as working together in-person, side-by-side, whiteboarding, pair-programming, etc. We want to solve this problem, not because we love remote work, but because we hate it and want to make remote work more like in-person.
Renji Bijoy Founder & CEO/CTO @ Immersed
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$1,680,042
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682
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Why you may want to support us...

1 💰$2.1M raised on THIS campaign!
2 📈 Partnership with Facebook to roll out to millions of Oculus users in the next few weeks.
3 💸 Went through Techstars Chicago '17 and previously raised almost $2M.
4 🥽 The average Immersed power-user works 35+ hrs each week using Immersed.
5 🤓 CEO was the lead architect @ several Fortune 500 companies. Team from Google, Microsoft, and YC.
6 👨‍💼 Advisors include Daniel Ha, founder of Disqus, & Jake Thomsen, partner at Sovereign's Capital.
7 🌎 Users have 5 virtual screens + a virtual whiteboard in a distraction-free private virtual office.
8 🏢 Co-workers can teleport into each other’s virtual offices to collaborate when needed.

Why investors us

we've raised $3,435,042 since our founding

I’ve been a VR user and enthusiast since the days of the Oculus Kickstarter. It’s been amazing seeing the medium grow and transform how we think about gaming and entertainment. But I’m also painfully aware that we are in the early days of the VR/AR industry. The tech is limited, the market is small, and the commercial interest is experimental at best. However, this is a common phase for all consumer technologies and it’s inevitable that the technologies here get better and the applications more useful. That’s especially true for productivity tools. Immersed VR is tackling a hard, important challenge: helping people work better and collaborate with others in a world where it’s difficult to simply get in a room together. The world looks obviously different in 2020, but the way people work and work together has been changing for years. I think Renji and his small team understand these problems well and have what it takes to show how useful VR, and subsequently AR, can be for productivity.
Daniel Ha Cofounder, Disqus
Lead Investor Investing $15,000 this round
In the space as well (vr& ar)
Robert Porter
on 08/07/2020

Our team

Renji Bijoy
Founder & CEO/CTO
800/800 on Math SATs, Halo MLG, Master's from Georgia Tech (#3 Computer Science grad school in the US) in Machine Learning, Techstars portfolio founder (top 10 of 10,000 candidates), lead architect @ GreatBigStory.com (3M followers in 2 months).
Joe B
VR & Web Developer
Techstars graduate, top coding bootcamp engineer, and graduated from one of the world’s most prestigious VR development programs.
Tatsuya Y
Mac & Linux Developer
Lead developer for kernel-level architecture and optimization at a Y Combinator startup, and created the world’s fastest multi-monitor streaming tech for mobile platforms.
Pablo V
CV/ML Developer
Built cutting-edge hand pose- estimation tech, and graduated from one of the world’s most competitive online Computer Vision programs.
Matthew T
CV/ML Developer
Founded 2 tech startups while in school as an Aerospace Engineer (Game Dev & ML), autonomous drone research for UC, 25 under 25, self-learned programmer.
Alan C
Technical 3D Artist
20 years of experience in technical game development and R&D. Built game engines from scratch, integrated numerous technologies, and worked with a dozen different game engines.
Anthony M
VR Developer
Creative Technologist at Google, Rapid Prototyping & Optimization at world-renown Ad Agencies, and Founding Member of the Board for a gaming non-profit.
Scott S
PC Developer
Windows developer since 1988, one of the top experts in C/C++/C# in the world, has led innovative technical teams at Hewlett-Packard, and has started his own startup.
Gavin M
Strategic Account Executive
Built two 6-figure businesses, the top-performing sales rep at an Andreessen Horowitz portfolio SaaS company, Dialpad, built a real estate investment portfolio of $1M+ in assets.

In the news

Austin TX
hardware software technology virtual reality y combinator

Immersed allows you and your remote team to work together — in a virtual workplace.

Working remotely is hard. We made Immersed to be more productive... wherever you are. To date, we raised almost $2M since we graduated from TechStars. With backgrounds from Google, Microsoft, and Y Combinator, we are the perfect team to do this. 

High resolution, low-latency virtual screens... in VR.

💪 We partnered with Facebook — who deemed Immersed the VR app with the best user experience for working in VR.

We are proud to announce that we have partnered with Facebook to launch to the highly-curated Oculus Store, rolling out Immersed to millions of users later this summer.

📈 Our power users work 35+ hours in VR every week.

Back in 2017 when we went through Techstars Chicago, within 4 weeks, we had over 3,000 people sign up for this product, which didn't exist at that point. Now, we have onboarded over 10,000 users in the last year before even launching on the Oculus Store — which currently has an estimated 10,000,000 users.

🙏 A world-renowned team from Google, Microsoft, and more.

Immersed is a small but mighty team with some of the top engineers in the world — along with incredible investors and advisors who have supported our mission since day one.

Jake Thomsen, Partner at Sovereign's Capital, previously invested $600K and is investing another $50K into the Wefunder round. Daniel Ha, co-founder of Disqus, the largest commenting app that has touched more than 2 billion users, is working daily with Immersed to build the best possible user experience.

💫 It works and users love their productivity boost.

Working in VR lets you enter a mode of deep work more frequently and for longer periods in a portable, distraction-free virtual workspace.

Spawn multiple virtual screens — no hardware required!

Collaborate with your team...

Work in a virtual coffee shop...

✌️ Immersed is THE productivity platform to power the future of work.

We bring distributed teams together and solo workers into a distraction-free virtual workplace. Solo workers can increase their productivity by 48% while in "Deep Work" mode, and recover 16 hours weekly by eliminating distractions. 

(Immersed on Bloomberg, interviewing with Anthony Lacavera, Founder of WIND Mobile, 
sold for $1.3 billion).

💰 This is a $34 billion opportunity.

Demand for a VR work and remote collaboration tools is at an all-time high, especially in light COVID-19 and the demand it creates for remote teams. With falling VR hardware prices, massive investments from the tech giants (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc,), and lower tech-barriers/prices, VR is primed for huge growth and mass adoption.

 👊 What's next 

We are raising a $1M Round to continue building and supporting Immersed as we launch to the Oculus Store and start ramping up growth. Refining consumer experience, adding enterprise features, and scaling our userbase will be our priorities before we raise a larger Series A next year or so.

🙏 Join us and revolutionize the future of work!

Immersed will be the platform that brings distributed teams together in the remote working economy. Let's do this!

(Immersed on BBC.)

Investor Q&A

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What does your company do?
We make Virtual Reality offices for distributed teams. Users have 5 virtual screens + a virtual whiteboard in a distraction-free, private virtual office, and their co-workers can teleport into each other's virtual offices to share screens and whiteboard together when needed.
Where will your company be in 5 years?
We want to be the DEFINITION of what it means to "go to work" where people put on a pair of "Facebook Glasses" or "Apple Glasses" a few years from now and teleport to their virtual office using Immersed.
Why did you choose this idea?
Every software development team I've ever been on or led has had the issue of video-conferencing/chat just not being the same as working together in-person, side-by-side, whiteboarding, pair-programming, etc. We want to solve this problem, not because we love remote work, but because we hate it and want to make remote work more like in-person.
Why is this a good idea, right now? What changed in the world? Why wasn't this done a few years ago?
COVID-19 has caused EVERYONE to work from home, and now VR headset sales are SKYROCKETING (Oculus is trying their best to keep headsets in stock). That previously wasn't the case before COVID-19, and now, collaborative remote teams need a better way to collaborate than video/chat.
How far along are you? What's your biggest obstacle?
We have a production-ready product and have thousands of users using Immersed every month, a lot of whom spend 40+ hrs each week working in Immersed. The biggest obstacle we are facing is being on multiple VR headsets, but we will be solving for that after we release to the Oculus Store in the next few weeks and go viral.
Who competes with you? What do you understand that they don't?
People try to use BigScreen but that's made for watching movies, not productivity (slow, low-quality for live streaming as opposed to buffered streaming). They also try to use VR Desktop, but that's only solo mode and mainly for gaming. On the remote collaboration side, people try to use Slack, Skype, email, etc., but all of those are workarounds for the reality that remote work is fragmented and current-day tools don't suffice.
How will you make money?
We currently charge users $15/month. We also charge teams at larger corporations $30/user/month. We're taking the B2C2B approach, similar to Slack and Dropbox, since users have been sharing Immersed with their co-workers by word of mouth naturally and are upselling to their managers without us pushing them to. Oculus currently has 10M users on their platform, which could lead to $150M of current revenue for individual consumers, and closer to $1B of revenue if upsold to their teams.
What are the biggest risks? If you fail, what would be the reason? What has to go right for you to succeed?
If VR headsets and future AR glasses never take off, neither will we, since we're currently dependent on those hardware devices to provide an immersive experience. The tech giants working on creating these next-gen computing devices (Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Panasonic, Samsung, etc.) are pouring billions of dollars into figuring out the hardware long-term, but this is almost inevitable.
Have some users gotten dizzy in the VR workplace?
No. Headsets today are very high quality and don't cause nausea. Also, Immersed is a stationary experience, so users are able to work 40+ hrs per week in Immersed with no issues.
How will you get buy-in from large corporate companies?
Immersed is using the B2C2B approach where our users are champion evangelists for our product inside their corporations who sell up to their managers on our behalf, similar to Slack or DropBox.
Do you expect a professional to buy a VR headset just for Immersed?
Everyone is going to buy a headset (or AR glasses) someday. It's just now a matter of when it becomes ubiquitous due to there being a killer application that everyone is buying it for. Facebook has partnered with Immersed because they believe we are that killer application.



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