Company record
Overworld
Updated November 2, 2026 · Presspool
Overworld makes Waypoint 2, a world model that turns a text or image prompt into an explorable world that runs locally on a PC or via streaming, plus a toolset for building first-person games from a prompt. over.world
Funding
- $4.5M Pre-seed, announced January 20, 2026. Led by Kindred Ventures. Sources: globenewswire.com.
Whether AI names Overworld
- On the World models map: named or cited in 8 of 50 answers to Presspool's World models questions on November 2, 2026 (ChatGPT 5 of 8, Claude 0 of 8, Perplexity 3 of 8, Gemini 0 of 8, Copilot 0 of 8, Google AI Mode 0 of 8, Google AI Overviews 0 of 2). See the map. Of the 11 companies on the map, Overworld ranked joint 7th by answers naming or citing it in that sample. The other companies AI names most on World models questions: World Labs (44 of 50), Decart (28 of 50), Odyssey (28 of 50), AMI Labs (26 of 50) and Runway (25 of 50). Most often named in the same answers: Decart (8), Odyssey (8), Runway (8), World Labs (8), SpAItial (6).
Week by week
Answers that named or cited Overworld in each weekly sample of Presspool's World models questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.
| Week of | World models |
|---|---|
| September 28, 2026 | 1 of 54 |
| October 5, 2026 | 0 of 48 |
| October 12, 2026 | 4 of 51 |
| October 19, 2026 | 4 of 55 |
| October 26, 2026 | 8 of 51 |
| November 2, 2026 | 8 of 50 |
Sources AI cites when it names Overworld
Presspool asked its 8 World models questions on November 2, 2026; 8 of the 50 answers named or cited Overworld, on ChatGPT and Perplexity. The sites those 8 answers cited most:
- presspool.ai: 8 of 8 answers
- openai.com: 5 of 8 answers
- waitwhichmodel.fyi: 4 of 8 answers
- worldlabs.ai: 4 of 8 answers
- decart.ai: 3 of 8 answers
- odyssey.ml: 3 of 8 answers
- runwayml.com: 3 of 8 answers
- techcrunch.com: 3 of 8 answers
- 3dscenecreator.com: 2 of 8 answers
- butlereagle.com: 2 of 8 answers
Related records
Also on the World models map: AMI Labs, Decart, General Intuition, Manifold AI, Moonlake AI, Odyssey, Runway, SpAItial, World Labs and Zenithon.
Kindred Ventures, which led this round, also led Dream Labs ($90 million Seed, October 19, 2026) and Parasail ($32 million Series A, April 15, 2026). It is also named as an investor in Fearn ($5.5 million, round type not disclosed, September 23, 2026).