| 词条 | Meta (company) |
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| name = Meta | logo = Meta_new_logo.png | image = | image_caption = | type = Private | founder = Meron Gribetz, CEO | key_people = John Werner | products = Augmented Reality Products | homepage = {{URL|metavision.com}} }}Meta was a company that designed augmented reality products. The company was founded by Meron Gribetz in 2013.[1] The company furloughed two-thirds of its approximately 100 employees in September 2018.[2] In 2019, the company declared itself insolvent and sold all its assets in a foreclosure sale.[3] In all, investors — BOE Technology Group, Draper Associates, Horizons Ventures, and others — sank $73 million into Meta.[4] ProductsThe company's products included the Meta 1 and Meta 2 Developer Kits, headsets by which users could view and manipulate holographic images.[5] HistoryMeta was founded by Meron Gribetz while he was a student at Columbia University[6][7] In 2013, Meta launched a crowd-funded Kickstarter campaign that raised $194,444.[8] Also in 2013, Meta was accepted into the Y Combinator's seed accelerator program.[9][10] Steve Mann became the company's chief scientist and Steven Feiner became an adviser.[11][12] In 2014, founder Gribetz was awarded the "30 Under 30 award" in the technology category by Forbes[13][14] and Meta won best heads-up display award for the Meta Pro at the Consumer Electronics Show.[15][16] Meta presented the Meta 1 Developer Kit with a live medical demo at 2014's TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.[17] In September 2014, Meta began to ship its Meta 1 Developer Kit.[18][19] In 2015, Meta received $23 million in Series-A funding from Horizons Ventures, Tim Draper, BOE Optoelectronics, Garry Tan and Alexis Ohanian of Y Combinator, Danhua Capital, Commodore Partners, and Vegas Tech Fund.[20][21][22] In 2016, Meta unveiled its second-generation product at a TED conference.[23][24][25][26] [27][28][29] The company received another $50M in venture-capital funds from Lenovo, Tencent, Banyan Capital, Comcast Ventures, and GQY.[30] In 2018, Meta furloughed two-thirds of its one-hundred employees after it failed to secure another round of venture-capital funding.[31] In 2019, Meta declared itself insolvent.[32] See also
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