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IMVU
Company type
private
Industry
Social network
Founded
2004; 20 years ago (2004)
Founder
Will Harvey, Eric Ries, Marcus Gosling, Matt Danzig
Headquarters
Redwood City, California
,
U.S.
Key people
Daren Tsui (CEO)[1]
Number of employees
200
Website
www.imvu.com
IMVU (/ˈɪmvjuː/, stylized as imvu)[2] is an online virtual world and social networking site. IMVU was founded in 2004 and was originally backed by venture investors Menlo Ventures, AllegisCyber Capital, Justin Greene, Bridgescale Partners, and Best Buy Capital.[3][4] IMVU members use 3D avatars to meet new people, chat, create, and play games.[5] In 2014, IMVU had approximately six million active players,[4] and had the largest virtual goods catalog[6] of more than 6 million items as of 2011.[4] The business was previously located in Mountain View, California.[7] It was known as one of the leading practitioners of the lean startup approach.[8]
The company name was neither an acronym nor an initialism. IMVU co-founder Eric Ries[9] described the accidental process by which the company acquired its meaningless name, and stated "It's not an acronym; it doesn't stand for anything", though he did note the name was originally used because the IM aspect invoked instant messaging, something the company wanted to be associated with.[10]
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build their own spaces. Some of the most popular 3D chat experiences are IMVU and Second Life (though they extend far beyond just chat). Many such implementations...
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(non-combat-based MMORPG) include Active Worlds, There, SmallWorlds, Furcadia, Whirled, IMVU and Red Light Center. Many browser-based Casual MMOs have begun to spring...
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world/city: LucasFilm's Habitat, Second Life, Millsberry, Red Light Center, IMVU, Neopets, Roblox IM: ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, AIM,...
fame as an Apple II game programmer at the age of 15 and created the game IMVU Patty Hearst, heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974...
action-adventure game by Studio Pixel. Iji, a platform-shooter by Daniel Remar. IMVU, an online social entertainment game. Inner Worlds, a DOS platformer where...
multi-platform wireless 3D game engine developed by Fathammer Ltd. It is also used by IMVU for its 3D character models and accessories. Doom WAD, a similar file system...
supported the Native Client technology while others did not. Chad Austin (of IMVU) praised the way Native Client can bring high-performance applications to...
StayUp Inc., with Chevsky as founder and CEO. StayUp was acquired in 2018 by IMVU, a social 3D world company, with Chevsky coming onboard as an executive advisor...
beginning around 2004 when he was an investor and advisor to the company, IMVU, that Ries co-founded. Ries observed that Customer Development was a natural...
There are many MMORPG virtual worlds out on many platforms. Most notable are IMVU for Windows, PlayStation Home for PlayStation 3, and Second Life for Windows...
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platform that can be used to crowdsource translations for digital content. IMVU, Cloudflare, and Path used the platform to crowdsource website translations...
lifetime, including OSgrid.org, Smallworlds, Entropia Universe, Utherverse, IMVU, Active Worlds, vSide, Second Life and Twinity[citation needed]. CasinoLife...
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