Smobler Studios, a Singapore-based metaverse architecture company, raised USD$1.2m at the close of its seed funding round.
Backers included The Sandbox decentralized gaming virtual world, Brinc, an accelerator and venture capital fund, and Enjinstarter, a Web3 launchpad.
Founded by Dr Loretta Chen, a creative director, media veteran and professor and Ruel Sarmiento, a skilled artist, experienced gamer and trained architect, Smobler Studios specializes in multimedia creative ideation, design thinking, storyboarding, 3D, graphic & technical design, animation, video production and metaverse development.
The company is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Canada, USA and Bhutan.
The seed funding will enable the team to scale up its operations, form joint ventures to create a voxel art and gamemaker academies to train a new sector of virtual architects and metaverse designers as well as expand its reach into Asia, Latin America, Canada where Sarmiento is based and the USA where Chen resides.
The studio has already onboarded The Food Bank Singapore, which feeds the food insecure in Singapore, as well as Aventis Graduate School, which offers a metaverse campus to provide a source of low cost education to the ASEAN region.
FinSMEs
07/09/2022