Female Founders Building The Metaverse

we wanted to recognize that there are quite a number of amazing female founders here in Europe that have already started building (in fact we had over 40 apply for the last DVRSTY Office Hours)! Some have raised considerable sums of money, others are just starting on their journey. But they’re all making significant contributions to the Metaverse industry in Europe.

As we started making a list of those founders that we already knew, we realized that it would be a great idea to throw open that list, celebrate their achievements so far and shine a light on what they’re building. We also plan to open source all the data on the startups we get to know. So please spread the word.

Apply here to get yourself or some amazing female founder building the metaverse on our list!

Notes

Our thought process for selecting the founders:

We hope this list will serve a few different purposes eg. shining a light on those already building, inspiring others to do the same, providing a good resource for others looking to identify more female founders (incl. investors, conference organizers etc). And of course we hope that it will help more people find out about the DVRSTY #2 Office Hours that we’ll be announcing later
These founders are all based in Europe (we had to limit ourselves somehow!). Hopefully someone else is also making a US and ROW list :)
We’ve focused on founders that are building startups that plan to scale to many people and likely raise additional funding (vs. solopreneurs, agencies, service-based businesses). But it’s important to point out that venture backing isn’t always the right way to grow a company.
*To be as inclusive as possible, when we say female founders we could also expand this to being any founder identifying as female and including trans or non-binary

Orla Harris @ SidequestVR (Copy) (Copy)

Olga Dogadkina @ Emperia (Copy) (Copy)

Susan Cummings @ Petaverse Network (Copy) (Copy)

Evelyn Mora @ Digital Village (Copy) (Copy)

Georgina Felce @ Talewind (Copy) (Copy)

Charli Cohen @ RSTLSS (Copy) (Copy)

Konstantina Psoma @ Kaedim (Copy) (Copy)

Sophie Thompson @ Virtual Speech (Copy) (Copy)

Karinna Grant @ The Dematerialised (Copy) (Copy)

Marjorie Hernandez @ The Dematerialised (Copy) (Copy)

Emmanuelle Roger @ Immersiv.io (Copy) (Copy)

Hanna Toivonen @ ME3D (Copy) (Copy)

More Amazing Female Founders

Claudia Ruiz-Graham @ Stratbox
Stratbox is a platform for collaborative data visualation in the 3D space being used by large oil and gas companies and within education.
Jessie Fu @ Altr.
Altr is a digital fashion platform dedicated to unlocking the value of cultural heritage and archival fashion.
Melodie Mousset @ PatchXR
Patch is building the musicverse, create your own virtual music world and then jam out.
Gala Marija Vrbanic @ Tribute Brand
Tribute brand makes digital clothing which consumers can buy and paste onto themselves.
Esther O’Callaghan @ Hundo
Hundo is an ed-tech company building the world's first learn-and-earn campus for Gen Z to supercharge their career in tech.
Nina Salomons @ AnomieXR
Anomie’s uses immersive technologies to create positive narratives and bring mental health care into the future.
Lili Eva Bartha @ GN3RA
Immersive design platform with cloth simulation to create wear and trade as the latest in digital fashion as NFTs and wear in AR or on your avatar.
Paula Sello & Alissa Aulbekovo @ Auroboros.
Metaverse-native luxury fashion house created for both the physical & digital worlds.
Yin Zhang @ Virtual Beings
Developing an advanced behavioral AI engine to populate the metaverse with believable virtual life.
Anne McKinnon @ Ristband
Metaverse platform where events taking place in the real world can have a digital twin of the physical world happening in real time.
Veronica Costa Orvalho @ Didimo
Provider of fast, automated solutions for the generation of high-quality real-time digital human avatars.
Alexandra Hussenot @ Immersionn
A creative media technology company that specializes in licensing and building virtual worlds.
Melissa McBride @ Sophia Technologies
Building a model of NextGenEd at the forefront of the digital education revolution.
Sarah Ticho @ HatsumiVR
A participatory virtual reality experience inviting you to express pain and emotion through 3D drawing.
Mariliis Retter @ Alpha 3D
A generative AI-powered platform that enables users to automatically transform 2D images of real-world objects into 3D digital assets.
Cathline Smoos @ ImbueVR
A collaborative game of virtual fantasies for couples, created to bring passion and realistic interaction to VR in adult games
Emma Ridderstad @ Warpin Reality
Warpin provides a tailored full-service solution emerging from a VR platform for onboarding and upskilling employees.
Raquel Cardoso @ Sense of Space
Smart 3d compression, optimization and streaming system for the Metaverse
Emmi Jouslehto @ Arilyn
Design immersive and interactive XR experiences to make brands’ message stick
Linda Fachinetti @ Jump Into Reality
Virtual reality technology to design 3D interior spaces and go from concept to life-like immersive experiences in real-time