The Sandbox and venture accelerator Brinc announce the first batch of startups selected for its $50 million Metaverse Incubation Program, including Aptero, a custom metaverse platform for workspaces, Kola Labs, a metaverse platform for music that combines AI technology and generative art, and Metaverse Base Aggregation Platform MetaGameHub DAO, PZM-9 that lets anyone create LANDs for The Sandbox in minutes, metaverse agency Smobler Studios, educational metaverse space The Morpheus Project, and uniqly.io, a no-code solution for Web3 ecommerce automation. In January 2022, The Sandbox and Brinc launched a $50 million metaverse startup incubation plan, planning to invest $250,000 in each of 30 to 40 metaverse startups each year in the next three years.