Seattle Startup Live Aware Labs Raises $4.8M to Advance AI Feedback Platform for Game Developers
Seattle startup Live Aware Labs raised $4.8 million in seed funding led by Transcend to develop its AI-powered feedback management platform for game developers. The platform aims to improve game development by enabling better feedback, faster iteration, and closer communication with player communities.
Vreal shuts down, lays off staff after raising $15M including $11.7M Series A as VR market lags
Seattle VR startup Vreal, which raised $15 million including an $11.7M Series A and offered a Steam Early Access VR streaming platform that let viewers explore game worlds in 3D, is shutting down and laying off staff because the VR market didn’t develop as expected.
VREAL, led by ex-Unity VP Todd Hooper, launches native VR game-streaming platform with summer 2016 beta and VC backing
VREAL, a Seattle startup founded by ex-Unity VP Todd Hooper, is building a native platform to live-stream VR gaming so viewers can watch from any angle or inside the game world; a beta program is planned for summer 2016 and the company has attracted VC backing.
VREAL launches 360° VR streaming platform with social features and SDK for Unity and Unreal
VREAL launches a streaming platform that delivers 360° VR and 2D viewing with social features, letting fans move freely around virtual game spaces, interact with streamers, and exchange digital items.
VREAL exits stealth: Todd Hooper’s Seattle startup launches VR live-streaming platform to make VR games social
Seattle startup VREAL, founded by former Unity exec Todd Hooper, has emerged from stealth with a live-streaming platform that brings Twitch-style social interaction to virtual reality gaming, letting streamers and viewers meet and move together as avatars in shared VR game spaces.
VREAL launches world’s first live-streaming platform built for virtual reality to rival Twitch
VREAL, a Seattle startup, is launching a live-streaming platform built specifically for virtual reality to let viewers spectate and interact without the limitations of existing services like Twitch, addressing VR creators’ and audiences’ needs for more seamless, in-VR community experiences.
VReal launches beta to let viewers step into streamers’ VR games, enabling shared in-headset spectating
VReal is a beta platform that brings spectators into virtual reality by letting viewers join a mirrored instance of a streamer’s game so friends can experience the playthrough together in VR rather than through a 2D broadcast.
Todd Hooper of Napera Networks Presents Customer Development Framework at StartupDay 2010
Todd Hooper, co-founder of multiple startups including Napera Networks, presented on customer development at StartupDay 2010, drawing on Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany. Slides and videos from the event are available on Seattle 2.0 resources.
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Code Metal Advisor 2023–present · current
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Red Rover Interactive Advisor 2023–present · current
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Acequia Capital Investor 2021–present · current
Education
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Curtin University Bachelor, Business (Information Processing)
