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8i was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Wellington, NZ
8i Office Locations
8i has offices in Wellington and Culver City
Wellington, NZ (HQ)
74 Cambridge Terrace
Culver City, US
10567 Jefferson Blvd
8i Data and Metrics
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Founding Date | 2014 |
Total Funding | $41.7 m |
Latest funding size | $27 m |
Time since last funding | 7 months |
Investors | Samsung Ventures, Seen & Speed Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Sound Ventures, L.P., Baidu Ventures, Right Click Capital, End Cue, John S. Hendricks, Hearst Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Founders Fund, RRE Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Dolby Family Ventures, Kevin Wall, Advancit Capital, Inevitable Ventures, Kortschak Investments, Time Warner Investments, Jeremy Stoppelman, Signia Venture Partners, LLC, Samsung Global Innovation Center, One Ventures, Rothenberg Ventures, Freelands Ventures, Boost VC |
8i's latest funding round in February 2017 was reported to be $27 m. In total, 8i has raised $41.7 m
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8i News and Updates
June 22, 2017
8i lets you superimpose holographic characters into photos with Holo mobile app
Holographic tech startup 8i is launching its Holo mobile app, which enables you to add 3D holograms of people and animated characters into your real-world photos and videos. You can, for instance, take a hologram of Spider-Man and add him into the background of one of your smartphone photos. You can…
March 01, 2017
8i uses hologram of astronaut Buzz Aldrin to greet GDC booth goers
8i is making 3D holograms out of people with its augmented reality software. And the company is using it to welcome people its booth at the Game Developers Conference with a hologram of astronaut Buzz Aldrin. The company recently announced Holo, a consumer mobile augmented reality app that lets peop…
February 13, 2017
8i raises $27 million round for augmented reality holograms
Holographic-tech startup 8i is announcing that it has raised $27 million from media, tech, and telecommunications strategic investors. The company is also announcing Holo, a consumer mobile augmented reality app that lets people express themselves with funny holograms. Time Warner led the round, and…
February 13, 2017
Time Warner leads $27M investment in celebrity hologram company 8i
For the celebrity-obsessed, AR may offer the bizarre opportunity to get closer than ever to pop culture’s most recognizable stars and performers. For the last several years, 8i has been embracing a technology called volumetric capture that trains several cameras on a figure and stitches the feeds t…
September 16, 2016
Millennials need to get over it when it comes to the cost of owning a car
The pendulum has swung. Five years ago, the auto industry was terrified that cash-strapped, over-indebted millennials would be the first generation in history that actively shunned car ownership.
But as the economy has improved and millennials have, you know, grown up, they'…