Today, we're announcing our $9M Seed fundraise led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from SV Angel, and follow-on investment from our early backers Torch Capital, Concept Ventures, Anamcara, and angel investor Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs.
This funding will accelerate our progress toward creating the next interface for technology: AI personas that feel as natural as interacting with a real human.
Eighteen months ago, we started with an ambitious idea: to create AI personas that mimic how humans have interacted for millennia. This required multiple research breakthroughs, and we've delivered on all fronts:
Our foundational video generation model, CARA, runs in milliseconds without compromising realism. We generate every pixel in real-time, delivering AI personas with natural expressions and flawless lip-sync for ultimate control.
Our Conversation Engine seamlessly combines turn-taking prediction models, large language models, text-to-speech, and video generation to ensure coherent, natural interactions.
Our low-latency streaming platform brings digital humans to users in real-time at scale.
CARA II is the next generation of our breakthrough foundational video model. It delivers a major advancement in overcoming the uncanny valley, creating the most human-like AI personas available with improved expressivity and lip-sync accuracy.
ONE-SHOT (Beta) is a new feature powered by CARA II that creates personalized AI personas from a single image in less than 2 minutes (soon to be instant!). This democratizes AI persona creation by eliminating traditional barriers like professional-grade video footage, production studios, and lengthy processing times—enabling customers to build the face of their product with ease and scale.
Both CARA II and ONE-SHOT are available through our API today for enterprise customers.
Over 1,000 customers trust us, from Fortune 500 companies like Henkel to universities like ASU, language platforms like Preply, and cutting-edge AI startups.
They're using our technology to revolutionize employee training, transform e-commerce and customer service, streamline recruitment, and reimagine healthcare delivery.
Our founding team has worked tirelessly to push boundaries, take calculated risks, and maintain the patience and dedication needed to build, test, iterate, and ship consistently.
We're scaling our team with ambitious, smart, curious people who want to build a better way for humans to interact with technology. We've just opened our New York office to support this growth and are actively hiring.
This partnership with Redpoint will accelerate our growth as we continue building toward our vision of AI personas that feel completely natural.