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January 08, 2018 | Tom Ballard

More than half of $3 billion invested in VR and AR in 2017 went to just four start-ups

OutlookStart-ups working with augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies raised more than $3 billion in venture funding in 2017, according to a report from Digi-Capital. As this article from TechCrunch notes, the data are somewhat deceiving since more than one-half of the investments were made in just four firms.

One of the questions we posed to our venture and angel panel related to AR and VR. You can read their thoughts when the annual outlook series starts posting January 15.



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