Absurd:joy launches early access for Tangle virtual collaboration platform
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Absurd:joy has launched its Tangle virtual collaboration platform into early access, and it has raised another round of funding in excess of $4 million.
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Absurd:joy started out as a game company started by Owlchemy virtual reality gaming veterans Alex Schwartz and Cy Wise. They were frustrated by the lack of modern tools that empower teams to feel present, connected, and able to collaborate remotely. As they labored to make games in the pandemic, they pivoted to create a remote work hub dubbed Tangle.
It serves as a virtual platform for teams to connect and collaborate from anywhere. It was under testing since the company announced its funding of $5.5 million in August 2021. And now anyone can download and use it.
“We were trying to make video games and fell into the fortunate circumstance of building an entire communication platform,” Schwartz said. “I’m very excited about the funding. We have over $10 million in funding at this point. Until now, we were holding the floodgates of people who wanted to try it.”
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The aim is to reduce meetings and put people first, said Schwartz in an interview with GamesBeat. And the goal is to produce something that is more joyful for employees to use than the standard Zoom, Google Meet, Discord or Microsoft Teams.
“Everyone is so sick of using the fragmented stack of tools that communicate remotely like Zoom for video and Slack to send
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