Welcome to our October edition of BACKED | by Improbable.

This month we’re highlighting Chamber, a next-gen platform bringing together the simplicity of Zoom-style live conferences with the dynamism needed for today’s attention economy. Chamber allows businesses and creators to host immersive, interactive experiences at scale, all directly in the browser and without downloads or heavy hardware. Built on MSquared, it opens the door to richer participation, stronger community connections, and new monetisation opportunities, all at a fraction of the usual cost.

Elsewhere in the ecosystem, we’re highlighting MSquared’s new Global Partner Programme, Somnia’s post-mainnet momentum, and updates from portfolio ventures as they participate in a busy season of industry events.

Thank you for reading!

Venture Spotlight |

Chamber is transforming passive video calls into vibrant, interactive experiences. Led by David Aubespin, serial entrepreneur and former VP of Product and Design at Hopin, the Chamber platform blends the simplicity and reach of browser-based tools with the energy and spontaneity of real-world gatherings. Drawing on his deep experience across tech, product, and live events, Aubespin is on a mission to make digital gatherings feel alive, social, and unforgettable.

From corporate events to creator-led fan communities, Chamber has already demonstrated its ability to scale engagement while keeping experiences personal. But Aubespin sees an even bigger opportunity.

"If gaming platforms can make people feel truly connected in a digital space, professional events should be able to do the same. That realisation was the spark for rethinking what virtual events could be."

In this interview, Aubespin dives into how Chamber uses 3D, AI, and social design to create real presence, why serendipity and agency are key to engagement, and how immersive events are reshaping the way communities connect online.

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MSquared launches its partner program

MSquared has launched its Global Partner Programme, creating a trusted network of creative and technology studios that will help brands build persistent, ownable 3D experiences. Inaugural partners include Dubit, Karta, The Gang, Command Line and Imporium, who collectively bring experience delivering projects for FIFA, L’Oréal, Gucci, Spotify, Amazon and more.

Through the program, partners gain early access to MSquared’s platform features, direct engineering support, and collaboration with Catalyst, MSquared’s in-house innovation studio responsible for projects like the BBC Philharmonic’s Sound of Gaming performance and record-breaking large-scale virtual events. The initiative signals MSquared’s shift into adoption mode — opening the door for brands to move beyond short-term activations and instead build long-term, interoperable virtual destinations they control.

GamesBeat highlighted MSquared’s edge:

“MSquared has remarkable tech that is accessible to users via a web link. The tech has been used more for powering virtual concerts or creating huge online events with up to 20,000 people in the same experience for Yuga Labs’ Otherside. It’s hard to build such things inside Roblox or Fortnite, where the limits are more like scores of people sharing the same experience. To get to 20,000, those platforms would replicate servers with perhaps 50 to 100 people in the same space.”

Somnia’s post-mainnet momentum

Following its mainnet launch in September, Somnia has been busy rolling out new tools and community experiments. This month:

Somnia has unveiled Data Streams, a new technology that makes blockchain data available in real-time. Instead of the old, resource-intensive method of constantly checking the chain for updates, apps can now subscribe and receive live information as state changes. This opens the door to faster, more efficient applications on Somnia’s high-performance network, which handles over a million transactions per second with near-instant confirmation. The Somnia team will officially launch Data Streams at Devconnect.

The new Somnia Liquidity Points program was launched to distribute rewards to users who add liquidity to the core protocols that power the ecosystem. The program already counts 48,000 unique users.

On October 25, the network reached a major milestone, hitting one billion transactions on mainnet.

Industry Pulse |

Web Summit | Lisbon – Developer Summit (Nov 12)
Looking ahead, Rob Whitehead will appear at Web Summit’s Developer Summit, joining Robby Yung (CEO, Animoca Brands) for The open creator economy: Building the next internet of ownership. Their session will explore how blockchain and interoperable worlds are enabling a new economy where creators can own their work, control their audiences, and unlock new revenue streams.

DevConnect | Buenos Aires (November 17-22)
Looking ahead, the Somnia team will officially launch Data Streams at Devconnect, giving developers the first chance to test it live during the Dreamathon virtual hackathon prior to the event. Virtual hackathon kicks off next week, winners announced at the hackathon.

fan3 Funding Raise
fan3 continues to make headlines with their growth plans now that it's part of the Improbable venture builder.

That’s it for the month.

We’ll be back next month with new highlights and stories of progress.

Have feedback, suggestions or topics you'd like us to dive into? Email us at: [email protected].