Cornerstone VR

What Cornerstone VR does

Cornerstone VR is a Birmingham, UK-based private company that develops and licenses immersive virtual reality training content focused on trauma-informed practice, safeguarding, and behaviour change. Its core product is a library of more than 60 purpose-built 360-degree films delivered through Pico VR headsets, which place learners inside scenarios experienced from the perspective of children and young people exposed to abuse, neglect, exploitation, domestic abuse and knife crime. Content is co-developed with social-work experts and, in some cases, with local authority partners, and is supported by a customer portal containing session plans, FAQs, podcasts and webinars. The company is a brand of Cornerstone Training and Support Limited (Company Number 09316423), itself part of The Antser Group, having been founded in 2017 as Antser VR and rebranded in September 2024.

The platform is sold primarily through an enterprise field-sales motion to UK local authorities, NHS trusts, police services, fostering and adoption agencies, and education providers, with optional VR headset hire supplementing licence revenue. Pricing is licence-based and subscription-style, billed annually, with bespoke quotes per organisation. Cornerstone VR has grown adoption to approximately 50% of English local authorities and reports 2,000+ certified VR practitioners across 3 continents and 6 countries, delivering around 300 training courses per year. Notable customers include Norfolk, Hampshire, Nottinghamshire, Southend, Hull and Stockton councils, NHS Trust Dartford & Gravesham, London Ambulance Service, the Metropolitan Police, Flourish Fostering and Education Impact Academy Trust.

Product and partnership activity in 2024-2025 has accelerated: Cornerstone VR became the first approved partner for the University of Birmingham / Sandwell Children's Trust RIVRT programme, achieved ARC approved training provider status, launched a Knife Crime and Serious Youth Violence film series with Thurrock and Enfield councils, and added partnerships with Fighting Knife Crime London and Mikey's World. Award momentum (Health Tech Digital 2021, Laingbuisson 2024, SME Business Elite 2025, Corporate LiveWire 2025/26) supports commercial credibility. The company operates with 11-50 employees and no external funding rounds are disclosed, indicating growth is being funded organically within the Antser Group parent.

Name

Cornerstone VR

Legal name

Cornerstone Training and Support Limited

Website

https://cornerstonevr.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cornerstone VR is a Birmingham-based VR training company that sells a library of 60+ immersive 360-degree films on Pico headsets to UK local authorities, NHS trusts, police, fostering agencies and schools for trauma-informed safeguarding and behaviour-change training.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Immersive VR Training Platform

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

VR-Based Skills Training Simulations (Soft Skills, Customer Service, Leadership) (EDAFAJAA)

Keywords

• VR trauma training
• Safeguarding training solutions
• Virtual reality education
• Immersive learning technology
• Social care training

Headquarters

HQ city

Birmingham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. VR Training Programme Licences: Cornerstone VR offers licensing of its VR training programme to organizations. Pricing depends on the number of licences and whether VR headsets are hired. The company provides a full package including strategy meetings, VR training, ongoing support from a dedicated account manager, and access to a resources portal.
2. VR Headset Hire: Optional VR headset hire service available alongside licence packages.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Cornerstone VR provides an immersive virtual reality training programme built on 360-degree films delivered via Pico VR headsets, enabling professionals to experience trauma, abuse, neglect and exploitation through the eyes of children and young people. The platform is licensed to organisations across local authorities, NHS trusts, fostering and adoption agencies, police services, and education providers, supported by dedicated VR Service Managers, a resources portal, and optional VR headset hire.

Product overview

Cornerstone VR is a unified trauma-informed VR training platform comprising the core Cornerstone VR Platform with over 60 immersive 360-degree VR films, the RIVRT module developed with academic partners, specialized film series (Knife Crime, Child Exploitation), and a customer portal. The platform enables professionals across social care, education, health, and police services to experience scenarios from children's perspectives, combined with VR-enabled training courses for comprehensive safeguarding education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cornerstone VR Platform A trauma-informed virtual reality training platform offering immersive 360-degree films that enable professionals across social care, education, NHS, police and fostering/adoption sectors to experience trauma through the eyes of children and young people, fostering empathy and understanding of adverse childhood experiences.
• RIVRT (Research Informed Virtual Relationship-based Practice Training) A research-driven VR training programme developed with the University of Birmingham and Sandwell Children's Trust, featuring seven in-depth modules that replicate real-life social work visits through an 11-month fictional family journey, delivered to social care professionals across the UK.
• Knife Crime and Serious Youth Violence Film Series A specialised VR film series exploring knife crime scenarios including stop and search, custody experience and serious knife-related incidents, designed to deter knife carrying and educate young people on consequences.
• VR-Enabled Training Courses Training courses delivered with VR headsets covering topics including child sexual exploitation (CSE), child criminal exploitation (CCE), domestic abuse, social media, and knife crime, combined with session plans and 2D content for partner organisations.
• VR Customer Portal A dedicated portal for Cornerstone VR partners providing access to VR resources including headset guides, session plans, podcasts, webinars, FAQs and training materials covering safeguarding and wellbeing topics.

Quantifiable outcome

• 83% of young people were deterred from carrying a knife after watching VR films
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Mikey's WorldcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 November 2025Partnership with Mikey's World incorporated Cornerstone VR's immersive 360-degree films into Creative Youth Network's Anti-Knife Crime Programme sessions, combined with catastrophic bleed control kit training.
• Fighting Knife Crime LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 April 2025Fighting Knife Crime London joined forces with Cornerstone VR to support tackling knife-related violence among young people through VR technology. The partnership combines immersive VR experiences with educational outreach to change the narrative around youth violence.
• Hull City CouncilminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 15 October 2024Hull City Council became one of the latest local authorities to use VR technology to raise awareness and understanding of trauma.
• University of Birmingham and Sandwell Children's TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 14 October 2024Cornerstone VR became the first approved partner to deliver the University of Birmingham and Sandwell Children's Trust's RIVRT (Research Informed Virtual Relationship-based Practice Training) to social care professionals across the UK. RIVRT was developed through two years of ethnographic research.
• Attachment Research Community (ARC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 October 2024Cornerstone VR became an ARC approved training provider, recognised for its immersive VR programme for children's services.
• Thurrock CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCornerstone VR collaborated with Thurrock Council to develop the Knife Crime and Serious Youth Violence VR film series.
• Enfield CouncilcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCornerstone VR collaborated with Enfield Council to develop the Knife Crime and Serious Youth Violence VR film series.
• Nottinghamshire County CouncilcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerPartnership with Nottinghamshire County Council's Developmental Trauma and Attachment Team (DTAT) to embed VR into trauma-awareness programmes across multiple council departments.
• Norfolk County CouncilcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerNorfolk County Council's fostering and adoption team uses Cornerstone VR to help carers step into a child's perspective and transform understanding, reflection, and practice.
• Education Impact Academy TrustminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSpecialist FE college introduced VR to increase engagement, improve inclusion, and deliver essential life skills for learners with SEND.
• Flourish FosteringcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerFlourish Fostering, rated 'Outstanding' by Ofsted, became one of the first independent providers in the UK to use Cornerstone VR across its services for staff and foster parent training.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Flaim Systems: VR training systems for first responders and safety-critical training, including firefighter and emergency-response scenarios — comparable in using VR headsets to deliver immersive behaviour-and-decision training, but focused on safety rather than social care.

Direct peers

• PIXO VR: Enterprise VR training platform used for safety, compliance, and procedural training across industries — directly comparable VR-headset-based enterprise training offering with similar content-library model.
• FundamentalVR: Immersive VR platform for medical and procedural training with haptics, sold to enterprise healthcare and education customers — comparable VR-based enterprise training model with similar licence-based selling motion.
• Bodyswaps: VR soft-skills and empathy training simulations used by educators and workforce-development organisations — directly comparable to Cornerstone VR's empathy-and-behaviour-change focus, with a similar VR-headset-driven delivery model.
• Oxford Medical Simulation: UK-headquartered VR training company delivering immersive clinical and soft-skills scenarios to NHS trusts and healthcare providers — overlapping with Cornerstone VR's NHS safeguarding training vertical and UK public-sector enterprise sales motion.
• Strivr: Immersive VR learning platform focused on employee training using 360-degree and interactive VR scenarios — comparable to Cornerstone VR's 360-degree-film-based immersive training delivered through headsets to enterprise customers.
• Mursion: US-based provider of VR-based simulations for soft-skills and behavioural training, including scenarios for empathy, leadership, and difficult conversations — directly comparable to Cornerstone VR's immersive empathy and behaviour-change training for professionals.
• Talespin: Enterprise immersive learning platform offering VR-based soft-skills, leadership, and human-relations training to corporate and public-sector buyers — overlapping with Cornerstone VR's VR training platform model and licence-based enterprise sales motion.
• Immerse: VR enterprise learning platform for language, communication, and soft-skills training delivered to corporate and education buyers — directly comparable immersive-VR training model with multi-vertical enterprise GTM.

Others

• Antser Group: Parent conglomerate of Cornerstone VR providing social care and technology solutions across health, education, and social care — adjacent rather than competitive, included as the corporate parent and ecosystem context for Cornerstone VR.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cornerstone_vr
• Facebookfacebook.com/CornerstoneVR
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cornerstonevr
• Instagraminstagram.com/cornerstone_vr

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

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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