Deadmau5 (left) has his own Ready Player Me avatar.
Deadmau5 (left) has his own Ready Player Me avatar.
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Ready Player Me raises $56M for metaverse avatars

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Ready Player Me, a cross-game metaverse avatar platform that allows users to explore virtual worlds with one consistent identity, has closed a $56 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

The New York company has seen success with its cross-platform metaverse approach, where it is advocating the use of interoperable avatars. To date, Ready Player Me has partnerships with more than 3,000 game and app companies using its avatars.

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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.