Educational VR Startup Dreamscape Learn Raises $20M in Series A Funding

An immersive learning educational technology company developed in collaboration with Arizona State University – Dreamscape Learn, has raised $20 million in series A funding as it continues building its virtual reality-enabled coursework and platform and putting them to work in classrooms.

Dreamscape Learn, which is based in Santa Monica, California, was developed through a two-year partnership between ASU and VR company Dreamscape Immersive. That included input from ASU faculty in the development of materials that add a cinematic and emotional element to the learning, as well as the ability to give students a view beyond the classroom.

Dreamscape Learn platform is a unique software package that both enables the richly immersive experiences of its products and supports third-party development of new environments and tools. The company’s software development kit allows clients to build extraordinarily realistic 3D environments for both synchronous and asynchronous teaching with minimal technical resources.

Founded by Walter Parkes, a motion picture producer, and Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University (ASU), Dreamscape Learn is on a mission to transform education through cinematic storytelling, cutting-edge immersive technologies, and advanced pedagogy. It develops immersive learning experiences that blend innovative pedagogy with cinematic storytelling.

Dreamscape Learn has reinvented the biology course for both undergraduate and K-12 levels in deep collaboration with world-class biologists and biology educators. With modules spanning core biology areas like cell signaling, genetics, adaptation and evolution, niches, biostatistics, and experimental methodology, Dreamscape’s biology lab can work in combination with an established biology curriculum, or it can become the entire curriculum.

“When I first experienced this technology, I immediately knew it could power a whole new way of teaching,” said Michael Crow, president of ASU. “It allows us to place students in situations and roles never before possible. When students are captivated by these environments, we can send them on academic missions that are authentic, rigorous and emotionally compelling.”

“By combining cinematic storytelling with innovative curriculum and emerging technology, we are creating educational experiences that motivate students to do the work necessary to master a subject,” said Dreamscape Learn founder Walter Parkes. “Throughout our deep partnership with extraordinary teachers, we are discovering the vast educational potential of emotional storytelling.”

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