Fantastic Voyage Labs

What Fantastic Voyage Labs does

Fantastic Voyage Labs is a private US-domiciled education technology company founded in 2021 that develops extended reality (VR/XR) simulations for hands-on bioscience and clinical laboratory training. Its flagship product, Destination Lab, is an immersive virtual laboratory featuring precision-reconstructed instruments, materials, and dedicated environments (Main Laboratory, Cell Culture Room, Cold Storage Area) that allow trainees to rehearse laboratory procedures safely and without consuming reagents or generating biohazard waste. The company layers an ML-driven adaptive content engine and an AI virtual instructor character named Celly (trademark pending) over the simulation to personalize instruction and target improved retention versus traditional methods.

The company serves three primary customer segments: university science departments (undergraduate and graduate bioscience programs), biotech and pharmaceutical companies (pre-employment training, continuing education, and skills certification), and clinical and healthcare laboratories (competency validation for diagnostic labs). It markets through its website with interactive "Visit the Lab" and 360-degree tour experiences, social media, and direct B2B engagement with training leaders, lab managers, and corporate training departments. Co-founders Julia Kirshner, Ph.D. (CEO; previously founder of YC S15 biotech zPREDICTA) and Sergey Kirshner, Ph.D. (CTO; former ML lead at Amazon and Facebook Marketplace) anchor a distributed team of roughly ten people across the US, Ukraine, Poland, and Hungary, supplemented by advisors including Carnegie Learning founder Steve Ritter, Ph.D.

The business operates on a subscription-based revenue model providing access to the VR training platform and its modules; pricing is not publicly disclosed and no funding rounds, revenue figures, or customer logos appear in the source material, indicating a bootstrapped or pre-seed-stage company with a sales-led, institutionally focused go-to-market motion and no disclosed external equity capital to date.

Name

Fantastic Voyage Labs

Legal name

Fantastic Voyage Labs

Website

https://fantasticvoyagelabs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fantastic Voyage Labs develops VR-based laboratory skills training simulations for bioscience education. It serves universities, biotech/pharmaceutical companies, and clinical labs through a subscription platform featuring an adaptive AI-driven virtual instructor named Celly.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Immersive VR Training Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Labs, Simulations & Virtual Practicals (Non-XR) (EDAFACAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Healthcare & Clinical Simulation (Surgery, Nursing, EMT, Patient Interaction) (EDAFAJAC), Digital Twins & Scenario-Based Systems Training (Equipment/Process Simulators) (EDAFAJAJ)

Keywords

• VR lab training
• Bioscience education
• Immersive learning
• Virtual reality simulation
• Adaptive learning platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Boston

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. VR Training Platform Access: Subscription-based access to virtual laboratory training simulations. Users pay for access to the VR training platform and its modules.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Fantastic Voyage Labs operates Destination Lab, an extended reality (VR/XR) training platform that delivers hands-on laboratory skills practice for bioscience and clinical lab learners. The platform combines precision-reconstructed virtual lab environments, an AI-driven adaptive content engine, and Celly, a virtual instructor character that provides personalized guidance through procedures. Learners can practice laboratory techniques safely and repeatedly without consuming reagents or generating biohazard waste, with claimed skills transfer to real-world applications.

Product overview

Fantastic Voyage Labs offers a unified VR-based training platform centered on Destination Lab, a hands-on virtual laboratory environment for bioscience and clinical lab skills training. The platform features Celly, a virtual instructor character who guides learners through procedures. Skills learned in the virtual environment transfer directly to real-world laboratory applications. The platform provides adaptive content, personalized instruction, and comprehensive training areas including a main laboratory, cell culture room, and cold storage area.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Destination Lab: A VR application for hands-on training for biosciences and clinical labs, featuring Celly as a virtual instructor.
• Celly

Products and services

• Destination Lab

Quantifiable outcome

• 4X faster skills acquisition compared to traditional training methods
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• SimX: SimX provides virtual reality clinical simulation software for healthcare training, used by hospitals, nursing schools, and EMS programs. It is a direct competitor in VR clinical simulation, with overlapping customer segments in clinical and healthcare laboratory training.
• Osso VR: Osso VR is a VR surgical and medical training platform that sells to healthcare providers, medical device companies, and academic medical centers. It overlaps directly in clinical simulation use cases and B2B subscription economics, though it focuses on surgical procedures rather than bench-lab techniques.
• FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR provides immersive VR simulation with haptics for medical and surgical training. It is comparable as an EdTech/MedTech VR training platform using precision-reconstructed equipment and adaptive learning, though it focuses on procedural clinical training rather than bioscience wet-lab skills.
• Immerse: Immerse is a VR language and corporate training platform that distributes via Meta Quest Store and direct enterprise sales. It is comparable as a VR-first B2B training content platform with a similar distribution strategy and headset-agnostic deployment approach.
• Mursion: Mursion provides VR-based interactive training simulations for healthcare, education, and workforce development. It is comparable as a B2B VR training platform with a sales-led motion targeting institutions and corporate training departments, with overlap in healthcare and clinical training use cases.
• Labster: Labster is the category-leading VR lab simulation platform for universities and life sciences education. It is the most direct competitor, offering virtual labs for biology, chemistry, and physics with similar B2B institutional sales motions and content-driven subscription pricing.

Broad incumbents

• Surgical Science: Surgical Science is an established provider of medical simulation and training solutions, including VR-based training for healthcare professionals. It is a broader incumbent that covers end-to-end simulation curricula across medical education markets where Fantastic Voyage Labs is expanding.
• EON Reality: EON Reality is an established XR knowledge transfer platform serving education and industry with a broad content library. It is a broader incumbent in VR/AR learning experiences, competing for some institutional XR training budgets though less specialized in bioscience wet-lab procedures.
• Strivr: Strivr is a VR training platform focused on enterprise workforce learning, particularly for retail and soft-skill simulation. It is comparable as a broader VR training B2B platform but serves a different primary vertical (enterprise L&D) than Fantastic Voyage Labs' lab-skills focus.

Emerging players

• Talespin: Talespin provides an enterprise XR platform for workforce training, including AI-driven virtual instructors. It overlaps on the AI-virtual-instructor concept (analogous to Celly) and B2B sales motion, though it focuses on enterprise soft skills and compliance rather than laboratory procedures.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 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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