Gather.town
| Videoconferencing | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | 2020 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Metaverse |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | https://gather.town/ |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Gather.town (also known as just Gather) is social gathering and communication platform that covers every facet of real life: work, community and play.[1] It part of an increasing amount of companies attempting to build around the concept of a Metaverse. It essentially works like a top-down video game, where each user acts as a playable character in this virtual world. Each user can make their own avatar, customise their spaces to suit their needs, and even visit other virtual offices around the world.
History[edit]
The company was originally spun out from an experiment in social telepresence called Online Town. [2] The project was sunset on May 22nd, 2020 and all source was released publicly on GitHub. [3]
In March of 2021, the company announced taht they raised a Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Other investors included Index, YC Continuity and angels including Dylan Field, Jeff Weiner and Kevin Hartz.[4]
Virtual Offices[edit]
One of the main use cases of Gather has been for Virtual offices. The Gather company itself works out of a virtual office hosted on it's own platform as well. [5]
Virtual Events[edit]
The other use case has been virtual events.
Notable Events[edit]
- Magic The Gathering Press Event [6]
- Earth Day 2021 [7]
References[edit]
- ↑ Sequoia (2021-03-11). "Building the Metaverse with Gather". Medium. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ↑ "Online Town". theonline.town. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ↑ "siemprecollective". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ↑ "Sequoia Capital puts millions of dollars into Gather, a virtual HQ platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ↑ Rivero, Nicolás. "The workplace apps that could change the nature of work". Quartz. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ↑ Parlock, Joe. "You Can Try Out Magic The Gathering's Adventures In The Forgotten Realms Gather Press Event From Today". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
- ↑ "Events". Earth Day Initiative. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
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