Virtual and Augmented Reality Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

Matterport is an immersive media technology company that is shaking up the 3D / VR world. Our team has built the first end-to-end system for creating, modifying, distributing, and navigating immersive 3D and virtual reality (VR) versions of real-world spaces on web and mobile devices. Matterport offers the world's most inexpensive and simplest way to capture 3D spaces. Our products include: - Matterport Pro Camera for capturing real spaces in 3D. It collects accurate visual and spatial data to map entire areas in minutes and is all about automation and ease of use. - The Matterport Cloud for processing and hosting 3D models - Matterport Portal, our system for viewing, editing, and managing models; collaborating with colleagues; and sharing models with others - Matterport 3D Showcase, a browser-based 3D media player, which allows anyone to view 3D models in their browser with no additional software - Matterport Core VR: All Spaces can be converted to VR and experienced on Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard (in beta), with additional device support coming soon. Matterport 3D media solutions power industries from real estate (residential, multi-family and commercial) and travel and hospitality (hotels, vacation rentals, and venue booking), to business listings, architecture, engineering and construction, news and entertainment, and everything in between. We’re growing fast. If you’re passionate about solving cutting-edge problems in computer vision and hardware design and creating order-of-magnitude improvements in the ability to easily create and share 3D models of real world spaces, we want to talk to you. See open positions at matterport.com/jobs. Try Matterport for yourself at matterport.com/try.

Thalmic Labs is pioneering new ways of interacting with digital devices. With a mission to merge people and technology, the company is revolutionizing how we will interact with technology in the future. Its first product, the Myo™ armband, measures electrical activity in muscles to wirelessly control computers, phones and other digital technologies, resulting in seamless interaction between humans and devices. Founded in 2012 by three graduates of the University of Waterloo's mechatronics engineering program (Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey, Aaron Grant), Thalmic Labs has grown to a world-leading team of engineers, researchers, and creators committed to building the future of wearable technology. Thalmic Labs has raised over $140M USD to date from investors including Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Y Combinator, and others.

Supermedium is a VR space to read books and comics, watch videos, view art, browse the Web, send messages, browse social media in a comfortable and focused environment. We're building a post-screen world to improve how we interact with technology by providing more screens, larger screens even while laying down, in a portable form factor. https://supermedium.com/

Scope AR is the pioneer of enterprise-class augmented reality (AR) solutions, delivering AR tools for getting workers the knowledge they need, when and where they need it. Scope AR is revolutionizing the way enterprises work and collaborate with intuitive augmented reality tools that deliver the real-time knowledge sharing needed to conduct complex remote tasks, employee training, product and equipment assembly, maintenance and repair, field and customer support, and more. Remote AR Remote AR is an augmented reality telepresence tool; the expert has access to the field technician’s view through their hardware device (tablet, glasses, or smart phone) and can add or manipulate augmented content to aid the technician in completing the process efficiently and safely. WorkLink A product that we can license to our clients, which will allow you to build, deploy, and manage your own augmented reality solutions. WorkLink also provides unprecedented levels of access to information generated by work processes, both active (measurements, photos etc) and passive (date,time and geolocation etc)

AirCaps is bringing AI assistance to real-world conversations. Our software provides live captions, translations, and proactive AI insights for meetings in your field of view on lightweight AR glasses. We started by helping people with hearing loss understand speech with real-world captions, then expanded to breaking down language barriers with live translation, and now provide AI support during important meetings for professionals. We’ve already transcribed 15,000 hours of in-person conversations and counting. Today, AirCaps assists with 11% of our users’ in-person conversations. We did $93K in revenue in October and grew 6.5x from September while spending <$3K on marketing. Our power users average 6h+ daily usage and our day-30 retention is 91%. We previously went viral (75M+ views on TikTok, 150K+ followers) and have been featured by The New Yorker, WIRED, and Forbes. We’re building intelligence for the 200 billion daily conversations that happen face-to-face. Madhav (CEO, Yale CS) has been building on smart glasses since age 13, starting with Google Glass apps. He researched audio AI at the MIT Media Lab. Nirbhay (CTO, Cornell CS) built voice AI on smart glasses in high school and built conversational AI products as the first engineer at 2 YC startups.

Mentra is building the open source operating system for smart glasses. The smart glasses hardware is finally ready, so we're building the OS and app store to power the next computing platform.

Emote is an AI-enabled platform that helps schools scale real-time, individualized student support without adding staff. Co-built alongside educators and interventionists, Emote continuously analyzes behavioral and social-emotional data to surface early indicators of need and deliver actionable insights. Schools using Emote can support 8x as many students, 12x earlier, ensuring staff have both the awareness and guidance to provide the right support at the right time. Our platform streamlines interventions by not only identifying students who need attention but also equipping staff with the next steps to maximize impact.

We are building the next generation creative studio, powered by the most capable video and image foundational models. We are creating the place where generative image and video experiences will be built. Backed by Y-Combinator and Khosla Ventures.

UNISON is building a unified reality headset to dive in and resurface from virtual worlds with new-found value. UNISON is a small team of passionate people from companies like Meta, Sony, Apple and research labs like the IARAI, based in the SF Bay Area and backed by some of the world’s best investors. Learn more about us, our product, and team here: in-unison.com.

Gym Class is a top-rated social game for virtual reality. Download to make friends and hangout, compete and play sports, or create and explore in simulated worlds. Join us on our mission is to connect the world by simulating it.

The most advanced Augmented Reality API.