# Marco DeMiroz

> Marco DeMiroz is a seed investor at The Venture Reality Fund/VRF backing Virtual Reality. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Venture Reality Fund/VRF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-reality-fund)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/marco-demiroz/0/0/b62
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/marcodemiroz
- Website: https://x.com/marcodemiroz
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mdemiroz

Marco DeMiroz is a Co-founder and General Partner at The Venture Reality Fund/VRF. He attended Carnegie Mellon University - The Tepper School of Business and Stanford University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Virtual Reality | 5 | 42% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Online Games | 3 | 25% |
| Augmented Reality | 3 | 25% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 25% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 75% |
| Series A | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oasiz | Oasiz is pioneering what it calls “playable content”—a new category where AI-powered tools enable users to generate games in seconds and share with the same speed and cultural resonance as memes or short videos. Unlike traditional game platforms, Oasiz is designed for viral discovery: creators can layer in the subtle cues, humor, and authenticitythat fuel TikTok’s cultural waves, but now in the form of games. | $2.5M | Seed | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Little Umbrella | Little Umbrella offers popular game genres with AI and personalized gameplay experiences ideal for all ages. | $2M | Seed | Jan 30, 2025 |  |
| Astrocade | Astrocade AI is an AI-powered social gaming platform that allows anybody to create games and interactive experiences. | $12M | Seed | Jun 11, 2024 |  |
| Phiar Technologies | Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera.Focused first on powering ourIntelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services. | $12M | Series A | Sep 27, 2021 |  |
| Obsess | Obsess is on a mission to reinvent the shopping experience. Today's e-commerce interface is a grid of thumbnails on a flat background that is the same across every channel and brand. Obsess enables brands to transform this interface into an engaging, beautiful, and custom-built experience that is optimized to capture shopper's attention.Immersive experiences enable retailers to build relationships with their shoppers, creating memorable digital touchpoints. By bringing the best of gaming into e-commerce, Obsess enables brands to create fun shopping experiences and appeal to a wider, younger audience while obtaining deep levels of insights into the way their customers shop. We are the market leader with the largest customer base and the most data, having launched 200+ stores with the world's leading brands in retail, beauty, luxury, CPG, and media. | $10M | Series A | Jun 29, 2021 |  |
| Obsess | Obsess is on a mission to reinvent the shopping experience. Today's e-commerce interface is a grid of thumbnails on a flat background that is the same across every channel and brand. Obsess enables brands to transform this interface into an engaging, beautiful, and custom-built experience that is optimized to capture shopper's attention.Immersive experiences enable retailers to build relationships with their shoppers, creating memorable digital touchpoints. By bringing the best of gaming into e-commerce, Obsess enables brands to create fun shopping experiences and appeal to a wider, younger audience while obtaining deep levels of insights into the way their customers shop. We are the market leader with the largest customer base and the most data, having launched 200+ stores with the world's leading brands in retail, beauty, luxury, CPG, and media. | $2.6M | Seed | Oct 27, 2020 |  |
| Embodied Labs | Embodied Labs is an immersive training platform that improves outcomes in training, awareness, and family and caregiver support. The company's goal is to activate transformational cultural change in long term care, home health, government, non-profit, and academic organizations by changing the way professional and family caregivers view andcare for older adults.Embodied Labs, winner of the 2018 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global XR in Education Prize Challenge, delivers cutting-edge senior care training solutions. Practical and user-friendly, the Embodied Labs platform immerses healthcare professionals in curriculum that simultaneously builds skills and empathy to help care workers excel and be confident in working. With a robust data analytics backend, the Embodied Labs platform tracks each care-giver's training to provide feedback on performance and a pathway to improvement.Embodied Labs was founded on 2016 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. | $3.2M | Seed | Jan 13, 2020 |  |
| Phiar Technologies | Phiar is an ultra-lightweight AI company, building the world's most advanced Ultra-Lightweight Spatial AI Engine to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, running real-time at the edge, using just commodity mobile-grade processors and existing automotive computing platforms with a single camera.Focused first on powering ourIntelligent AR Navigation Platform, as the anchoring/foundational use-case to transform driving experience and safety, and to ultimately enable the next-gen connected cars and ADAS services. | $3.3M | Seed | Nov 23, 2018 |  |
| Vantage Point | Vantage Point operates as a workforce learning and professional development company. It develops technology platforms that deliver immersive and interactive learning experiences for employees. The company focuses on improving workplace skills and fostering understanding through human-centered training programs. Its solutions support professionaldevelopment and organizational learning initiatives. It uses interactive technology to structure learning, track progress, and facilitate skill acquisition. | $1.4M | Seed | Aug 15, 2018 |  |
| InstaVR | InstaVR is out-of-box integrated SaaS Virtual Reality(VR) marketing solution. InstaVR enables anyone to quickly and easily author publish-ready interactive VR apps for all mobile and desktop platforms, and analyse user behaviours by using InstaVR heat-map display. | $5M | Series B | Jun 04, 2018 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [GFR Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gfr-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [WXR Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/women-in-xr) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [A16Z GAMES Speedrun](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a16z-games) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anorak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anorak-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Colopl Next](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colopl-next) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Jump Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jump-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About The Venture Reality Fund/VRF

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

The Venture Reality Fund drives innovation and investment at the intersection of immersive, spatial, and intelligent computing for consumer and enterprise sectors.

2 contacts available at The Venture Reality Fund/VRF.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marco DeMiroz | General Partner and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marco-demiroz |
| Tipatat Chennavasin | General Partner and Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tipatat-chennavasin |

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## FAQ

### What does Marco DeMiroz invest in?

Marco DeMiroz invests primarily in Virtual Reality, Software and Online Games startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Marco DeMiroz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Marco DeMiroz closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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