What Forestage Labs does

Forestage Labs (operating publicly as 'ForeStage') is a Brooklyn-based, women-led private company founded in 2019 that builds an XR-compatible platform for 3D design and stage production planning. The core product combines 360-photogrammetry capture of theaters and event spaces with a proprietary searchable database and real-time XR collaboration, enabling designers, stage managers, technical directors, directors, and lighting specialists to visualize venues and productions remotely. A complementary 360-Photogrammetry Capture Service allows venues and productions to be digitized for hosting on the platform.

The company is currently in beta testing with a concentrated roster of marquee US performing-arts customers, including Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, San Diego Opera, San Diego Theaters, Opera America, Opera Omaha, Sarasota Opera, and the University of Houston. Its stated go-to-market is product-led, relying on a self-serve beta signup through forestagelabs.com, supplemented by reference partnerships with opera companies, theaters, and performing arts centers. Forestage also lists an explicit 'Become an Investor' CTA on the site, indicating active fundraising.

Forestage's intended business model is a recurring SaaS subscription for platform access, but pricing is not publicly disclosed and the platform remains in beta. Headcount is small (1-10 employees), no management team is publicly listed, no funding rounds are disclosed, and the company reports no revenue figures. The strategic focus is on reducing travel and coordination costs for co-productions, venue previews, and remote rehearsals across opera companies, touring shows, commercial event producers, and educational/historical theaters.

Name

Forestage Labs

Legal name

Forestage Labs

Website

https://forestagelabs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Forestage Labs is a Brooklyn-based, women-led startup building an XR-compatible platform that uses 360-photogrammetry scanning to let opera companies, theaters, designers, and event producers visualize and collaborate on stage productions remotely. The platform is currently in beta.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Stage Production Software

SIC

Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819)

akta.pro primary industry

Virtual/Hybrid Conference Production & Platform Management (THAHACAM)

Keywords

• 3D stage design
• XR production planning
• Venue visualization
• Theater photogrammetry
• Virtual production collaboration

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscription: SaaS platform providing access to 3D venue scans, production design tools, and XR collaborative features. Currently in beta testing phase.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Forestage Labs operates an XR-compatible SaaS platform for 3D design, planning, and production of stage productions. The platform hosts 360-photogrammetry captures of theaters, event spaces, and production design assets within a custom searchable database, and supports real-time collaborative interaction with 3D scans among distributed production teams. A companion 360-Photogrammetry Capture Service is offered to digitize venues and designs for use within the platform.

Product overview

Forestage Labs offers a single unified XR-compatible platform for visual spatialization in stage production planning. The core Forestage Platform enables 3D design, planning, and production through a custom searchable database of theaters, event spaces, and production design assets. Users can upload and host 360-photogrammetry captures, build account profiles with technical specifications, and interact with XR-compatible scans in real-time with collaborators. The platform is complemented by a 360-Photogrammetry Capture Service that captures venues and spaces for use within the platform.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Forestage Platform
• 360-Photogrammetry Capture Service

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce travel costs for co-production previews and venue research
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Sketchfab: Sketchfab hosts and shares 3-D models across many verticals. It is comparable to Forestage's 'Host' / searchable 3-D asset layer, but without a curated performing-arts library or live collaboration layer.
• Cvent: Cvent is a leading event-management platform covering venue sourcing, RFPs, floor plans, and attendee engagement. After acquiring Social Tables and AllSeated, Cvent is the broad incumbent closest to Forestage's event-venue use cases across corporate and association events.
• AllSeated: AllSeated is an event-design platform with 2-D/3-D visualization for venues and floor plans. It is comparable to Forestage's spatialization use case for the corporate-event segment, but without XR/photogrammetry capture.

Direct peers

• Matterport: Matterport operates the dominant spatial-computing / 3D digital-twin platform. It is directly comparable to Forestage's 360-photogrammetry capture + host pipeline for physical venues, though Matterport generalizes across real estate, AEC, and facilities rather than specializing in performing arts.
• Social Tables: Social Tables is event-design and floorplan software used by event planners and venue teams to diagram and visualize layouts — comparable to Forestage's spatialization purpose for the event-producers / corporate-events customer segment.
• Spatial: Spatial is an XR collaboration platform for distributed teams to meet, present, and review content in shared 3-D spaces. It mirrors Forestage's 'Interact' stage of XR-compatible multi-user collaboration but without a curated theater-venue library.
• MeetinVR: MeetinVR provides VR meeting and collaboration software for remote teams. It overlaps with Forestage's XR collaboration and review sessions, though without dedicated performing-arts venue content.

Emerging players

• VenueScanner: VenueScanner is a venue-sourcing and event-venues platform (UK-rooted) that includes virtual tours for listed spaces. Comparable to Forestage's virtual-venue-preview use case for event producers, though with a regional rather than performing-arts focus.
• Kuula: Kuula is a 360-photogrammetry virtual-tour hosting platform. It is comparable to Forestage's capture-and-host infrastructure layer, though Kuula serves real estate, hospitality, and tourism broadly without XR collaboration.
• Peerspace: Peerspace is a marketplace for booking event and meeting spaces, with virtual tours for each listed venue. It overlaps with Forestage's 'Theaters / increase booking prospects' value prop on the venue-discovery and booking side.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/ForestageLabs
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/forestagelabs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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