North Hollywood, California, United States
Topia Interactive is a virtual world and community platform founded in 2020 by Daniel Liebeskind, who serves as cofounder and CEO. The company enables businesses, festivals, and individual creators to host real-time social experiences inside customizable, browser-based spatial environments built on WebRTC peer-to-peer technology. Liebeskind had been developing platforms using the same underlying technology since 2015 and built nearly 30 applications over the six years preceding the interview.
Topia gained early visibility by co-hosting the virtual Burning Man event in 2020, drawing more than 25,000 attendees just five months after the first line of code was written. The company has since attracted enterprise customers including Okta, MIT, and Envoy, while also serving creator communities and large-scale festivals. As of late 2021, Topia had raised a total of $5.8 million from investors including Seven Seven Six and Bonfire Ventures.
Revenue as of the interview date had not yet crossed the $1 million annual run rate, though Liebeskind cited that milestone as a goal for 2022. The platform operates across several monetization streams: individual world ownership subscriptions at $9 per month, recurring B2B venue subscriptions priced by capacity, and one-off B2B events that have reached as high as $40,000 per engagement. A creator revenue-sharing program called Confluencers receives 30 percent of B2B revenue.
