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8th Wall raises $8 million for AR platform that works across most smartphones

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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8th Wall announced that it has received $8 million in venture capital funding for its augmented reality developer platform. The funding will help the company improve the number and quality of AR applications across a whole range of smartphones, not just those that are coming out now.

The new funding brings the company’s total financing to date to $10.4 million. Norwest Venture Partners, 8th Wall’s lead seed investor, led this new round, with participation from The Venture Reality Fund (The VR Fund), Shasta Ventures, and Sparkland Capital.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.