| Website | metaplace.com |
| Category | Web |
| Phone | 858.451.2700 |
| Employees | 12 |
| Founded | 7/06 |
| Series B, 10/08 Charles River Ventures Crescendo Ventures Ben Horowitz Marc Andreessen | $6.7M |
Metaplace (formerly known as Areae) wants to revolutionize the virtual worlds space. Their platform will provide an open, easy-to-use interface which will allow users to create virtual worlds that can run anywhere. Metaplace-created virtual worlds will be robust with users being able to play games, socialize, create content and conduct commerce.
Most virtual worlds are walled gardens making it hard to get data in and out of the worlds. Metaplace-created virtual worlds can be embedded into your Facebook page, MySpace page, or your own blog via a flash-based client widget. Every world is indexed, tagged and rated by users on the Metaplace portal, so virtual worlds in the Metaplace network can be easily linked together.
| Website | metaplace.com |
| Launch Date | March 31, 2008 |
| Tags | metaplace, areae, virtualworlds, virtual-world |
The Metaplace network links all the worlds together. Each of them can be completely different including virtual apartments for decorating, plazas where readings and musical events happen, space-action games, full-blown MMORPGs, casual games, and Amazon storefronts.
Areae’s presentation of MetaPlace at TC40 2007.
