Ready Player Me recently announced it had closed a $56 million Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) Games Fund One. Other notable investors included David Baszucki (co-founder of Roblox), Justin Kan (co-founder of Twitch), Sebastian Knutsson & Riccardo Zacconi (co-founders of King), and more.
Ready Player Me is described as a “cross-game metaverse avatar platform that allows users to explore virtual worlds with one consistent identity.” To date, Ready Player Me has partnerships with more than 3,000 game and app companies using its avatars.
The 3,000 apps across both web2 and web3 include the likes of VRChat, Spatial, Somnium Space, RTFKT, and many more. The company also already works with individual creators and fashion brands such as Adidas, New Balance, Dior, Pull&Bear, and Warner Brothers (Dune movie outfits) to enable cross-game avatar assets across the metaverse.
Ready Player Me has now just launched its Avatar API that improves interoperability for cross-game avatars. The aim is to let users take their avatars with them wherever they go in the metaverse.
