Having already collected $68m in an Alibaba-backed series A round in January, Sandbox VR has added $11m in a celebrity-filled bridge round.
Sandbox VR, a US-based virtual reality technology developer backed by e-commerce group Alibaba, has raised $11m in funding, TechCrunch has reported.
The round was co-led by Andreesen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund and David Sacks, and included fellow angel investors Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Will Smith, Michael Ovitz, Honda Keisuke and Kevin Durant.
Founded in 2016, Sandbox provides virtual reality games located in sizeable physical spaces such as shopping centres, allowing users to freely roam large environments and undertake…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
