Prisms VR helps students visualize math problems.
Prisms VR helps students visualize math problems.
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Prisms VR raises $12.5M to improve math literacy with virtual reality

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Prisms VR has found a way to improve math literacy using virtual reality headsets for visualization. And now the company has raised $12.5 million in funding.

Andreessen Horowitz led the round. Prisms launched in 2021 to bring problem-driven, tactile and visual learning to the math classroom, and it is the first educational technology platform to leverage VR to accelerate math proficiency in U.S. schools.

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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.