Happy Monday and welcome back to Early Access by Coeus Collective Ventures. This is set to be an unprecedented version of our newsletter that we are excited to share with you all.

Last week, we looked into Sable, a new company at the intersection of biotech and cosmetics that is taking on the GLP-1 craze with a weight-loss cream rather than an injection.

This week, we’re taking you behind-the-scenes of Braintrance: a company that just raised a $5 million seed round. Rather than sharing a company in the midst of their fundraise, this time we’ll have the benefit of looking back into one to see why they were successful. Let’s get to it!

Braintrance is an immersive media platform that enables people to capture, share, and revisit personal moments in full spatial depth, not just as flat frames. The platform ingests content from any device (smartphones, 360 cameras, AR/AI glasses, VR headsets) and converts it into explorable 3D scenes viewable across every screen. Unlike POV video, which locks a viewer to a single recorded perspective, Braintrance allows users to navigate the spatial environment of a moment: to look where they didn’t look, understand context they missed, and return to memories in ways a flat recording structurally cannot permit.

The company’s central insight is that people return to memories not because they are complete, but because they are unfinished. Braintrance externalizes that behavior into media. In the long run, the company positions itself as the infrastructure layer between an exploding landscape of depth-capable capture hardware and how humans actually remember and share experience—doing for immersive media what Instagram did for photography.

Braintrance Founder William Yeh on our Capital Calling Podcast