{"id":15764,"date":"2021-12-29T14:19:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=15764"},"modified":"2021-12-29T14:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:19:30","slug":"metaverse-gaming-platform-ready-player-me-raises-13m-to-expand-its-digital-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/metaverse-gaming-platform-ready-player-me-raises-13m-to-expand-its-digital-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaverse gaming platform Ready Player Me raises $13M to expand its digital presence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/proshares-files-for-a-metaverse-based-etf.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"15760\">Ready Player Me<\/a>, a platform for games that take place in the virtual world (Metaverse), has raised $13 million in its first round of funding, the platform seeks to use the fund in planning for its avatar interoperability between the metaverse.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1022\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-214.png\" alt=\"Metaverse gaming platform Ready Player Me raises $13M to expand its digital presence\" class=\"wp-image-15766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-214.png 1022w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-214-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-214-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-214-750x423.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding was led by the co-founders of Wise and Teleport, Taavet+Sten, as well as the co-founder of GitHub, Tom Preston-Werner, Samsung Next, Konvoy Ventures, and Gmoney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform wants to use the money to move forward with its plans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Metaverse+gaming+platform+Ready+Player+Me+raises+%2413M+to+expand+its+digital+presence&rlz=1C1SQJL_enNG889NG889&oq=Metaverse+gaming+platform+Ready+Player+Me+raises+%2413M+to+expand+its+digital+presence&aqs=chrome..69i57.1118j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avatar interoperability<span class=\"wpil-link-icon\" title=\"Link goes to external site.\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 5px;\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"height:16px; width:16px; fill:#000000; stroke:#000000; display:inline-block;\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:svg=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><g id=\"wpil-svg-outbound-7-icon-path\" fill=\"none\" clip-path=\"url(#clip0_31_188)\">\r\n                            <path d=\"M9.16724 14.8891L20.1672 3.88908\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/>\r\n                            <path d=\"M13.4497 3.53554L20.5208 3.53554L20.5208 10.6066\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"\/>\r\n                            <path d=\"M17.5 13.5L17.5 16.26C17.5 17.4179 17.5 17.9968 17.2675 18.4359C17.0799 18.7902 16.7902 19.0799 16.4359 19.2675C15.9968 19.5 15.4179 19.5 14.26 19.5L7.74 19.5C6.58213 19.5 6.0032 19.5 5.56414 19.2675C5.20983 19.0799 4.92007 18.7902 4.73247 18.4359C4.5 17.9968 4.5 17.4179 4.5 16.26L4.5 9.74C4.5 8.58213 4.5 8.0032 4.73247 7.56414C4.92007 7.20983 5.20982 6.92007 5.56414 6.73247C6.0032 6.5 6.58213 6.5 7.74 6.5L11 6.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/>\r\n                        <\/g>\r\n                        <defs>\r\n                            <clipPath id=\"clip0_31_188\">\r\n                                <rect fill=\"white\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"\/>\r\n                            <\/clipPath>\r\n                        <\/defs><\/svg><\/span><\/a> between metaverse worlds. This project supports the idea that there are many different digital worlds instead of just one, which is a common criticism of Meta, the company that used to be called Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ready Player Me will also add more than 70 new employees and help its community of developers by introducing new application program interfaces and software development kits. This will help improve the front-end user experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the avatar model from Ready Player Me is used by more than 1,000 businesses and organizations, from Somnium Space to Verizon, all over the world. In addition, the platform has worked with well-known <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/niftys-inc-partners-with-warner-bros-to-launch-a-social-nft-platform.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6005\">commercial brands <\/a>like Warner Brothers, Dior, and New Balance, as well as many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"481\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-213.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-213.png 481w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-213-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Marcinkowski, the team's marketing manager, said in an official blog post that the team wants to build the best avatar system for developers across the metaverse. CEO Timmu Tke said: &#8220;We want to build the best avatar system for developers<a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/elon-musk-opposes-metaverse-web3-says-neuralink.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"15563\"> across the metaverse<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cWith the funding, we will scale our partner network further and will build out monetization tools for developers to help them make money with avatar customization assets and NFT\u2019s. Our goal is to become the default system for the metaverse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready Player Me, a platform for games that take place in the virtual world (Metaverse), has raised $13 million in its first round of funding, the platform seeks to use the fund in planning for its avatar interoperability between the metaverse. The funding was led by the co-founders of Wise and Teleport, Taavet+Sten, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5794],"tags":[6235,5679,5620,6234],"class_list":["post-15764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metaverse-news","tag-avatar","tag-funding-2","tag-metaverse-2","tag-ready-player-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-214.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}