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A venture studio that builds and operates businesses inside virtual worlds — in-world venues, virtual estates, spatial commerce, world economies and AR.

https://metaverse.ventures/concierge/ 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z

One sentence about what you want to build inside a world, drafted in your own mail client and read by a named human. No network calls, no storage, no tracking.

https://metaverse.ventures/engage/ 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z

Three ways to reach Metaverse Ventures: publish a charter our agents can read, join the human graph in one click, or let your agents read our machine surfaces.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

11 virtual worlds scored against the six conditions a world needs before a business can live in it, with the rubric published and every score reasoned.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/decentraland/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

The strongest ownership case in the category and the weakest traffic case. Build here if your venture supplies its own audience and needs property nobody can take.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/the-sandbox/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

Structurally identical to Decentraland on ownership, worse on the parcel-to-population ratio. The supply decision the platform made is the buyer's problem now.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/somnium-space/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

The control experiment for the scarcity thesis, and it came back negative. Worth building on for presence quality, not for the land economics.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/otherside/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

Scarcity without footfall is a smaller number of things nobody wants. Not a place to put a venture until a population exists to serve.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/roblox/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

The best distribution in the category and no ground of your own. Build here to reach people, and carry the relationship out on portable identity before the terms change.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/fortnite-creative/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

A distribution channel rather than a foundation. Excellent for reaching an audience, unusable as a place to hold an asset.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/minecraft/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

Under-rated on persistence and population, structurally capped on monetisation. The fragmentation that weakens it commercially is also what makes it durable.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/vrchat/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

The strongest evidence that presence and commerce are separable — the most inhabited social world has the least developed economy. The constraint here may be cultural rather than technical.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/horizon-worlds/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

The clearest case that capital does not manufacture footfall. Scored here because omitting it would make the Atlas a list of survivors rather than an assessment.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/bitmap/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

The strongest tenure claim in the category attached to the least developed world. Early deliberately: interesting to hold, too early to operate on.

https://metaverse.ventures/atlas/vision-pro/ 2026-08-28T00:00:00Z

Included because filing AR under hardware is the most common analytical error in this category. Economically it is a world with the footfall problem solved and the property problem wide open — the mirror image of Decentraland.