Tag: XR

[UPDATED] Portland XR startup The Wild to be acquired by Autodesk

Rick Turoczy on March 24, 2022

This morning, Autodesk announced the intention to acquire Portland extended reality (XR) startup The Wild, which has significant applications in collaboration for the architecture and engineering world. This milestone also marks a significant event for the local venture capital community as The Wild counts local firms Elevate Capital, Ideaship, Oregon Venture Fund, Portland Seed Fund, and The R Group among its investors.

Category: Acquisitions, Oregon, Portland
Tag: autodesk, elevate capital, extended reality, gabe paez, ideaship, oregon venture fund, portland seed fund, the r group, the wild, XR

Portland Hololens agency Object Theory acquired by ARound

Rick Turoczy on November 23, 2021

It’s another exit via acquisition for serial founder Raven Zachary. His latest company — the Microsoft Hololens agency he helped cofound, Object Theory — has been acquired by ARound. Small Society, the iOS development shop Raven cofounded prior to Object Theory — a preeminent player in the then burgeoning Portland mobile scene — was acquired by Walmart Labs in 2012.

Category: Acquisitions, Oregon, Portland, Startups, XR
Tag: acquired, around, augmented reality, hololens, Microsoft, object theory, Portland, raven zachary, small society, virtual reality, walmart, walmart labs, XR

The Wild closes $2 million round, led by at.inc/

Rick Turoczy on April 30, 2021

I don’t spend as much time combing through the Form Ds as I used to. But journalists still do. Why? Because SEC filings are a great way to get the jump on stories about who is raising capital, be it venture capitalists or startups.

Category: Funding, Oregon, Portland
Tag: ar, form d, Funding, round, sec, thewild, vr, wild, XR

Quite the Prospect: Portland startup The Wild acquires product from IrisVR

Rick Turoczy on February 26, 2021

Seems to be a good week for acquisitions. Autodesk is picking up Portland’s Innovyze for $1 billion. And Portland startup The Wild has acquired a product to add to its repertoire and customer base, Prospect by IrisVR.

Category: Acquisitions, Oregon, Portland, Startups
Tag: acquires, irisvr, Portland, Product, prospect, Startup, the wild, XR

Big week for reality in Portland startups: Torch and The Wild both launch products

Rick Turoczy on September 27, 2018

If you’ve talked to me about markets that have a lot of potential in Portland, we’ve no doubt discussed reality of some flavor or another. Virtual, Augmented, Immersive, Experiential… whatever you want to call it, folks in Portland have been exploring creating content with those technologies for years. And now, XR is inspiring a new crop of products in town that enable folks to create that content more easily.

Category: ar, Oregon, Portland, Products, Startups, Videos, VR, XR
Tag: ar, augmented reality, reality, the wild, torch, Video, virtual reality, vr, wild, XR