In today’s era, the metaverse plays a vital role in keeping in touch with the virtual world. The central vision of starting the metaverse is to believe in the next repetition of the internet in a broader sense. It is a mesmerizing, perpetual, 3D virtual space where humans experience life in a way they can share in the physical world.
So here are some of the best Metaverse startups transforming the virtual world today.
1. NextMeet
NextMeet is an avatar-based Metaverse platform for remote collaborations founded by Prashant Chandra and Pushpak Kypuram. It enables workers, clients, and students to meet, work, and collab in a 3D virtual environment or space and provides distance learning and networking solutions. It comes under a subscription-based pricing system.
2. PolkaWar
PolkaWar is a startup-based gaming platform founded by Jackson Mohr for immersive gaming. Headquartered in Singapore, the game allows every player to build a character and to compete in a battle against other players. There is also a marketplace within the gaming where players can trade and upgrade types of equipment for cryptocurrency.
3. PlayersOnly
PlayersOnly is a US-based Metaverse startup founded by Tuan Ma, which offers a decentralized sports social media ecosystem where athletes, teams, fans, and brands can interact while building a global community. The startup also provides a social network that connects athletes altogether. In addition to supporting athletes, the startup solution enables fans to invest in their favourite players and team.
4. Zach
Zach is a UK-based crypto-investing social network founded by Parit Patel. It offers a set of tools for creators to create investing ideas and share them with followers. By leveraging and combining the metaverse and the creator economy, the startup also aims in retail investing to attract new retail investors. Zach also supercharges NFTs and provides business-grade NFT intelligence.
5. Union
Union is a realistic 3D avatar metaverse startup headquartered in Spain. It helps users to create a 3D realistic avatar that exactly looks what they look like in the real world. They also offer a complete full-body character creation tool that allows customizing what the avatar looks like.
6. GuildFi
GuildFi is a gaming Metaverse platform that empowers all gamer communities and creates interaction across the Metaverse. GuildFi aims is to promote an NFT gaming platform and empower all the gamer communities to interact across the Metaverse. Each player has got a GuildFi ID that helps to provide the identity and record a player’s achievements in the GuildFi ecosystem.
7. Crucible
Crucible is a game engine and web framework metaverse platform that provides easy, familiar access to Web 3’s digital trust layer. Headquartered in the UK, it is also one of the metaverse startups that use WebVR to add VR technology to the standard web. The primary purpose is to build a creative and innovative startup for development of product and services that would enhance the entertainment industry.
8. SuperSocial
SuperSocial is an innovative studio founded in 2020 by Yonatan Raz-Fridman with the aim of creating and empowering digital communities and playing, exploring, and socializing themselves in the next era of the internet. It operates a cutting-edge studio and a next-generation agency, developing, producing, and publishing world-class games on Roblox and other gaming platforms.
9. Inworld AI
Inworld AI is a creative platform for AI-driven virtual characters, immersive realities, and metaverse spaces for creating and inspiring new meaningful relationships. It sets up a new standard for AI characters by powering the “brains” that encourage their personalities, dialogue, and reactions. Inworld AI uses AI technologies to create any character you imagine in the real world.
10. Betterverse
Betterverse is a charitable metaverse platform where people can donate to projects they care about and receive an NFT that has been derived procedurally. The primary purpose of Betterverse is to contribute to charities and collect NFTs to track your donations and share them with your friends and followers.
11. Ikonz
Ikonz is a metaverse wealth-building platform founded by Abhinav Varma to bring India’s premium entertainment Ips, brands, and stories to the metaverse. It also helps IP owners, artists, and other established icons to manage their digital assets. Ikonz also acts as a 360-degree platform for IP owners to understand the different means of monetization and upscaling.
12. Metamundo
Metamundo is a structured marketplace founded by Mark Studholme for purchasing 3D models and avatars, enabling anyone to own high-quality 3D NFTs across the metaverse. It helps to empower talented 3D creators to help shape and define the open Metaverse. It also facilitates a beautifully designed 3D social network across the metaverse.
13. Zepeto
Zepeto is a 3D avatar metaverse platform created by Naver Z Corp (a top search engine platform) in South Korea. The Metaverse platform has more than 300 million users, where 20 million users become active every month worldwide. Zepeto users can create a 3D animated version of themselves and play with other users on a virtual-based platform.
14. Axie Infinity
Axie Infinity is a Pokemon inspired blockchain-based game where players can battle, trade, and collect fantasy creatures called Axies. The game runs on the Ethereum blockchain with the aim to minimize delayed transactions and reduces cost with a sidechain called Ronin.
15. Enjin
Enjin is a leading solution for creating NFTs and focusing mainly on blockchain gaming. The project was founded in 2009 by Maxim Blagov and Witek Radomski. Headquartered in Singapore, the project primarily targets the gaming community with tools to create decentralized games, game attributes, and exchange virtual assets.
16. The Sandbox
The Sandbox is a virtual metaverse in which users play, develop, and control their gaming experiences while also monetizing those experiences using the Ethereum blockchain. The Sandbox blockchain gaming platform consists of three integrated products that provide user-generated content production. The combined products further help users by allowing them to secure copyright ownership for their user-created content through blockchain and smart contracts.
17. Onerare
Onerare is a 3D food metaverse, gaming, and NFTs platform founded by Supreet Raju. Its primary purpose is to create a blockchain and bring the global food industry to web3 for the first time. Onerare helps users introducing with celebrity chefs, iconic restaurants, food brands, and cooking shows. It also creates an opportunity for brands to market their products to the global audiences and find new monetization means.
18. Allseated
Allseated is a 3D metaverse platform located in the United States. It is a cloud-based collaboration network for the events industry. Allseated connects venues, events vendors, and even hosts. The Allseated network provides its users with the functionality to work together, collaborate, communicate, share, and thus efficiently manage their events. Functionality includes preparing guest lists, seating arrangements and operational setup for an event.
19. H2l
H2l is a Japanese startup founded by Emi Tamaki and Ken Iwasaki. It predicts a fact that will cause individuals in the Metaverse to experience a physical pain. H2l has developed an armband that will detect the flexing of human muscles and will allow the user’s avatar in the metaverse to replicate the body motions. Users can feel the existence and weight of items.
20. Somnium Space
Somnium Space is an open, social, and persistent VR platform built on blockchain, where players can buy land, build or import NFTs, explore, and trade. On Somnium Space, users create environments that is fully programmable and customizable. By integrating blockchain technology, Somnium Space allows users to monetize VR experiences and empower them to create a world in their image.
