Emerge announces the close of $12M Series A round
Emerge announces the close of a $12M Series A led by M13, with participation from Vulcan Capital, LionTree Partners, Rokk3r Fuel ExO, Ocean Azul Partners, One Way Ventures, and other investors. This brings the total investment to $18M to date with support from Mundi Ventures, Corigin Ventures, Golden Ventures, Afore Capital, Metropolis Ventures, MiLA Capital, and Autochrome Ventures.
Emerge was born from a passion for leveraging frontier technologies to bring engagement, presence, and human connection to a world that seems smaller, yet more divided than ever.
At Emerge, they think of presence as connection: feeling connected to the experience, to the people you care about, to the shared moment. Even as extended reality (XR) becomes the next computing platform, it’s still a spectator sport constraining our first instinct to interact with our bare hands to reach out, connect, engage, and feel.
What does that mean? If you take a quick dive into the neuroscience of touch, it is at the core of the human experience; it affects our cognition, our emotions, our sense of bonding and connection, our learning, memory and retention, even our behavior.
Emerge builds a consumer product that enables users from distant locations to physically touch, feel, and share immersive content in XR using their bare hands. The goal is to create new interaction standards and a new language of touch for multi-sensory XR experiences.
Under the umbrella of communication, these are some of the experiences of exploration:
Tabletop & social games
Learning & Creative Play
Multi-sensory Meditation & Wellbeing
