Realm

Name

Realm

Website

https://realm.art

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Realm is a London-based, community-driven open-source project founded in 2020 that builds infrastructure for personalised metaverses, led by co-founders Matthew Larby (CEO), Milan Gruner (CTO), and Joban Thomas (CPO), with ~$4.75M disclosed funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Metaverse Platform

NAICS

Information (51), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Security & Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges & Services (6200)

akta.pro primary industry

Metaverse Virtual World Platforms (social worlds, land, UGC) (FSAPAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Metaverse & Social Virtual Worlds (BPAMAKAF), Gaming & Virtual World Communities (BPAMABAE), In-Game Asset Standards & Infrastructure (NFT items, marketplaces, royalties, asset registries) (FSAPAGAE)

Keywords

• Open-source metaverse platform
• Personalized virtual worlds
• 3D metaverse creation
• Community-driven metaverse
• Web3 virtual experiences

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Realm is a community-driven, open-source project that provides a platform for creating personalized metaverses. The company enables developers, creators, and brands to build, customize, and deploy 3D virtual world experiences. Backed by crypto-native investors, Realm focuses on accessible metaverse infrastructure through open-source collaboration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Realm Metaverse Platform

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Decentraland: Decentraland is a blockchain-based virtual world where users buy land, build experiences, and monetize via MANA and LAND tokens. It is the closest direct competitor to Realm's vision of personalized, user-built metaverses, with a much larger treasury and established user base.
• The Sandbox: The Sandbox is a UGC-driven virtual world built on Ethereum where creators build, own, and monetize voxel experiences and assets as NFTs. It directly competes with Realm in the personalized metaverse / user-generated virtual world category.
• Spatial: Spatial is a 3D social/metaverse platform that lets brands, creators, and communities build custom virtual spaces and galleries, with NFT support. It targets the same "personalized metaverse" use case as Realm and competes for similar creator and enterprise customers.
• Oncyber: Oncyber is a no-code 3D world builder with NFT gallery support that lets users create personalized metaverse spaces. It directly overlaps with Realm's "personalized metaverse" positioning and competes for the same Web3-native creator audience.
• Cryptovoxels: Cryptovoxels is a blockchain-based virtual world where users own land and build galleries, shops, and experiences. It is a smaller direct peer in the Web3 personalized metaverse category, with a comparable scale to Realm.

Broad incumbents

• Roblox: Roblox is the dominant UGC gaming/metaverse platform with hundreds of millions of users and a mature creator economy. It represents the incumbent, non-Web3 anchor against which personalized metaverse offerings must justify themselves.
• Rec Room: Rec Room is a UGC social/metaverse platform with strong creator tools, cross-platform support, and a sizable user base. It is a broader incumbent in personalized virtual spaces with a more mature monetization stack.

Emerging players

• Mozilla Hubs (Hubs Cloud): Mozilla Hubs is an open-source, customizable 3D social platform that can be self-hosted. As an OSS 3D world/community platform, it is a partial comparability for Realm's open-source personalized metaverse approach.
• VRChat: VRChat is a user-created 3D virtual world platform with deep community and avatar customization. While more community/avatar focused than Realm, it competes for the same creator-driven, personalized virtual world audience.
• Gather Town: Gather is a 2.5D customizable virtual space platform popular for events, communities, and remote work. It overlaps with Realm's "personalized metaverse for communities/brands" thesis, especially for non-gaming use cases.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/enter_realm
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/realmnft

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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