{"id":22625,"date":"2016-02-22T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/swiss-startups-delving-into-virtual-reality"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:50:17","slug":"swiss-startups-delving-into-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/swiss-startups-delving-into-virtual-reality","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Startups Delving Into Virtual Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swiss-startups-delving-into-virtual-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>On the heels of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mindmaze.ch\/\">MindMaze<\/a> round of $100 million, it is clear that Swiss tech is booming and beginning to tickle the curiosity of international investors.<\/p>\n<p>The startup had already closed an angel funding round of $10 million and recently announced the opening of their Series A round at a $1 billion valuation. The lead investor is multinational conglomerate <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hindujagroup.com\/\">Hinduja Group<\/a>, with participation from family offices that haven\u2019t been disclosed yet.<\/p>\n<p>MindMaze is a neuro-rehabilitation platform that helps stroke victims to recover faster by \u201cfooling\u201d the brain through VR\/AR technology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/02\/22\/swiss-startups-delving-into-virtual-reality\/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Techcrunch+%2528TechCrunch%2529&sr_share=twitter\">http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/02\/22\/swiss-startups-delving-into...re=twitter<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of the MindMaze round of $100 million, it is clear that Swiss tech is booming and beginning to tickle the curiosity of international investors. The startup had already closed an angel funding round of $10 million and recently announced the opening of their Series A round at a $1 billion valuation. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62704,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22625\/revisions\/62704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}