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September 23, 2021

Can Improbable get its metaverse ambitions back on track with this stealth project?

The Softbank-backed games engine company is under pressure to show it can live up to its hype and funding.


Maija Palmer

4 min read

Metaverse startup Improbable provides infrastructure for defence simulations

Improbable this week unveiled a software project which may finally help justify its lofty metaverse ambitions — and the money that investors like SoftBank, Andreessen Horowitz and Horizons Ventures have ploughed into the much-hyped UK scaleup.

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Herman Narula on the TED stage
Improbable raised £500m from Softbank in 2017, at the time the biggest-ever investment in a UK startup.
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