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Createra Raises $10 Million Led by a16z To Boost Gen Z-Focused Gaming Metaverse

Createra is a user-generated content (UGC) metaverse engine enabling creators to create, distribute, and MetaFi games.Createra, a creator-oriented metaverse project, announced today $10 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) to continue its pursuit of building the largest Gen Z-focused metaverse platform.

The gaming industry is changing rapidly through the introduction and adoption of Web3 tools like blockchain, verified ownership and asset monetization. Through these tools, gaming is seeing the birth of crypto-native, fully “on-chain games,” otherwise known as “autonomous worlds,” built on top of distributed ledger technology.

Createra is a user-generated content (UGC) metaverse engine enabling creators to create, distribute, and MetaFi games. Creating on Createra is made more fun and efficient by an unlimited player capacity, as well as multi-creator options and cross-play from anywhere.

Moreover, everything built on Land within the platform is tradable. This includes models, games, APIs and more.To have Land in the Createra metaverse means to have the stamp of a creator. It also means players are integrated into the Createra metaverse creation system, and distribute their metaverse NFT assets on the market.

Any creation can be monetized - blurring the line between creators and consumers while creating a space where anything is possible. This is MetaFi at its finest.Thus far, Createra has accumulated a community which consists of nearly 15 million Gen Z users, half a million builders and 1.3 million average monthly users on the continent of Asia alone, according to the statistics tool Matomo.

Users are not just players but builders of the entire Createra metaverse. The platform allows them to team up to create new digital experiences which utilize the programmability of digital assets, along with the benefits of crypto to ensure asset rights and revenue distribution.

Collaborative creation seen in the Createra metaverse helps lower the programming threshold and break down barriers for new users in the space. By building as a team, the means to create digital assets and understand programming complexities become a communal experience.

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