Sydney digital actuality startup Curiious has discovered a brand new area of interest for its expertise, serving to corporations embrace 3D worlds for buyer engagement, job coaching and advertising.
The veteran visible content material enterprise Curiious, finest recognized 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 schooling through 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 almost 25 years with a give attention to creating story-driven immersive experiences.
The newest funding injection might be used to speed up product improvement, gross sales and world growth.
Curiious CEO Michelle Schuberg stated the most recent iteration of the enterprise permits customers to construct a related group that stays engaged over time, making it extremely interesting to individuals and tradition groups seeking to recruit, onboard, prepare and retain expertise. Gross sales and Advertising and marketing groups additionally use Curiious to maintain media, companions and shoppers abreast of their newest developments and bulletins.
The immersive platform lets individuals work together in 3D environments, accessing livestream video shows, collaboration instruments, video games, on demand content material and extra.
Manufacturers akin to Johnson & Johnson MedTech have turned to Curiious to develop and educate a wide range of enterprise essential audiences, whereas Peugeot makes use of it to have interaction with media globally.
Schuberg stated the result’s deeper, longer lasting connections with the data shared in addition to with one another, with the supply could be scaled for person 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 among the world’s largest manufacturers. Partnering with Galileo is especially thrilling given their deep area experience and keenness for the trade,” she stated.
Galileo normal accomplice, James Alexander stated the Curiious SaaS platform considerably improves enterprise outcomes by means 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 stated.
“We consider most of the behaviours and tendencies we see in superior video games, like wealthy 3D worlds and interactions, might be quickly adopted by enterprises with Curiious turning into the centre of ‘3D enterprise communications’.”
