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Topia is a cloud-based communication and 📝Spatial Media platform that blends encrypted audio/video chat with playful world-building tools. The platform enables anyone to design customizable 2D or 2.5D virtual worlds where spatial video chat mirrors real-life social dynamics, where proximity governs who can see and hear one another. Topia is browser-based, emphasizes ease of use and customization, and is often used to host gatherings that feel more organic than a single “big group” call.

Topia is powered by 📝WebRTC technology with server-assisted real-time spatial streaming and can scale to thousands of concurrent participants. It offers 📝SDKs/ 📝Application Programming Interface (API)s for third-party developers and can integrate with external engines, enabling rich, interactive worlds and extensible experiences.

Co-founded in May 2020 by 📝Daniel Liebeskind and 📝Dylan Jones, it served as one of seven official venues for 📝Burning Man (2020) and was one of eleven products nominated for 📝Product Hunt’s 2020 Product of the Year alongside the 📝Oculus Quest 2 and 📝Clubhouse. The company raised $5 million in funding, led by 📝Alexis Ohanian’s 📝Seven Seven Six. Its markets include education, corporate collaboration and events, and creative communities, with a freemium subscription model.

I received a text from Dan on May 8, 2020 about the platform he’d been pouring his heart and soul into, and quickly thereafter we began collaborating. By June, 📝One Inc Cooperative began stewarding an equity stake; 📝One Financial provided its 📝Startup Business Engineering, 📝John Zdanowski served as 📝Fractional CFO, 📝One Studio became the first 📝Certified Partner (Topia) with our 📝One Gathering team hosting regular gatherings across 50+ Topia worlds, and 📝Brian Swichkow served as 📝Fractional CMO (July 2020 to September 2021).

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"📝Second Life was just one world, this is the multiverse." ~ 📝John Zdanowski
“For almost every person I show it to, they immediately need to show it to one or 2 of their friends.” - Sean Mahsoul, Polymath Capital
“…it went MUCH better than having everyone on a Zoom. I invited people from a lot of different life spheres - college, childhood, work - and I think it would have been very awkward to have on a big group video chat.” - Marisa
“People were really impressed with how the software worked and thought it was fun to say ‘come meet me by the giant worm.’” - Arjun
“The party was great! I re-created a county park where I usually throw a party at a cabin and it was a great success taking it virtual.” - Sam M.
“I used Topia for my murder mystery a few days ago and it went well! We had a blast!” - Arjun
“We had a fun experience with around 16-20 people. All people where surprised about the possibilities. Easy to use and customize” - Pim
"I feel like I'm creating a meet up thats essentially my sketchbook." ~ 📝James Cadotte

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