Founded by a Stanford computer science Ph.D. and game developer, and an expert on artificial life from MITÂ’s Media Lab. they successfully raised substantial VC funding and in 2005, coincident with receiving their Phase I and II SBIR dollars, the company was spun off under Makena Technologies. Also doing business as Forterra, the firm successfully launched a consumer online service and was awarded federal contracts to develop advanced virtual reality training applications. In October 2013, Forterra was acquired by SAIC In March 2010. The orginal There losed to the public but in May 2011, There announced it would reopen as a 18+ Cloud-based service and by Nov 2013, There is again open for business.
