Visionary VR Raises $6M

What does Visionary VR do?

Visionary VR, is a virtual reality start-up. It is revolutionizing storytelling in virtual reality. This is a technology and content development studio, and the home of Visionary focus, which is a revolutionary too for virtual reality content creators which employs the company’s proprietary system for attention management, storytelling and information delivery in VR. The company’s team is well know within entertainment and VR industries through their involvement with VRLA, which is the largest expo for augmented and virtual reality.

How much Visionary VR was funded?

The company raised$6M in Series A on March 23, 2016 from End Cue, LLC, Greylock Partners, Vayner/RSE, The Venture Reality Fund, BDMI and  Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).

What is next for Visionary VR?

The round of funding was led by DFJ which will help the company in continuing to build accessible VR story creation software. The company joins DFJ’s portfolio of forward thinking companies which include Tesla, Box and Skype.  Given the company’s insights into how storytelling is going to be redefined by virtual reality in the future, the company will be aligned with the long history of investing in disruptive technologies of DFJ. The company’s product is so impressive that it left DFJ’s team in awe, who have seen hundreds of VR demos and created their own VR app. Bubba Muraka, DFJ partner will join the company’s board of directors. He previously led product development for Facebook for Android. Before that he spent 7 years in product and technical roles at Microsoft, where he was group product manager.

More about Visionary VR

Visionary VR was founded in 2015 by Luke Patterson, Jonnie Ross, Adam Levin, Cosmo Scharf and Gil Baron. It has its headquarters in Los Angeles, California. The company continues using virtual reality for pushing beyond the language of conventional storytelling.