Hadean, a UK-based distributed space computing startup that sets out to build the infrastructure for the burgeoning metaverse, has closed a $30 million Series A funding round from a cast of high-profile investors, including Epic. Games and Tencent.

Founded in London in 2015, Hadean began with a broad mission to make “supercomputer levels of processing power available to anyone,” TechCrunch wrote in 2017 when the company was still operating in beta. In the intervening years, Hadean has iterated for different use cases and has become a major player in the gaming sphere in particular, where he powers big hits like Minecraft.

At its core, Hadean is about helping developers scale their code base to support software that requires…