Sydney digital actuality startup Curiious has discovered a brand new area of interest for its expertise, serving to firms embrace 3D worlds for buyer engagement, job coaching and advertising.
The veteran visible content material enterprise Curiious, greatest identified for its Vivid Opera Home projections, this yr featured the late artist John Olsen, has raised $1 million led by seed VC Galileo Ventures and current backers.
4 years in the past, the corporate raised $2 million for plans to revolutionise coaching and training by way of a digital actuality platform, Curiious IQ, an thought subsequently refined for enterprise to enhance buyer engagement and product bulletins utilizing the metaverse. The corporate has has been round for practically 25 years with a deal with creating story-driven immersive experiences.
The most recent funding injection will likely be used to speed up product growth, gross sales and world growth.
Curiious CEO Michelle Schuberg mentioned the newest iteration of the enterprise allows customers to construct a related group that stays engaged over time, making it extremely interesting to individuals and tradition groups seeking to recruit, onboard, practice and retain expertise. Gross sales and Advertising groups additionally use Curiious to maintain media, companions and customers abreast of their newest developments and bulletins.
The immersive platform lets individuals work together in 3D environments, accessing livestream video displays, collaboration instruments, video games, on demand content material and extra.
Manufacturers resembling Johnson & Johnson MedTech have turned to Curiious to develop and educate quite a lot of enterprise essential audiences, whereas Peugeot makes use of it to interact with media globally.
Schuberg mentioned the result’s deeper, longer lasting connections with the knowledge shared in addition to with one another, with the supply might be scaled for consumer teams of any measurement.
“We’re thrilled to have the help of Galileo Ventures as we proceed to construct on Curiious’s providing as an immersive, enterprise prepared communications platform offering improved engagement and actionable information to a number of the world’s largest manufacturers. Partnering with Galileo is especially thrilling given their deep area experience and fervour for the trade,” she mentioned.
Galileo normal associate, James Alexander mentioned the Curiious SaaS platform considerably improves enterprise outcomes by way of elevated productiveness, streamlined entry to information and heightened engagement.
“Galileo Ventures is worked up to spend money on Curiious, an organization we consider is constructing a brand new class of enterprise communications software program,” he mentioned.
“We consider lots of the behaviours and developments we see in superior video games, like wealthy 3D worlds and interactions, will likely be quickly adopted by enterprises with Curiious changing into the centre of ‘3D enterprise communications’.”