Outlier Ventures has announced the first batch of members for its Futureverse Basecamp Accelerator program. These seven selected companies were chosen from 500 global applications, including six pre-seed stage startups and one seed-stage startup. This 12-week accelerator program, launching in October 2023, covers business development aspects such as product roadmap, community strategy, token design and economics, and fundraising.

All selected projects aim to accelerate the development of open metaverse by building a root network (decentralized blockchain optimized for metaverse). The selected teams will receive guidance from industry leaders in various fields such as gaming, entertainment, and artificial intelligence. The selected startups include Intraverse, Lifelike Digital, MintPass, Nucanon, Plurality, REKT Interactive, and Spark, focusing on different areas of open metaverse.