# Genies

> Genies is a Los Angeles avatar technology company building the visual and behavioral layer for AI characters. Its free Unity Avatar SDK, forthcoming smart-avatar and content-creation tools, consumer apps, and licensed character partnerships are designed to let developers, brands, athletes, artists, and fans create persistent 3D identities that can look, remember, react, speak, and move across interactive experiences.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Los Angeles, United States
- **Founders:** Akash Nigam (Co-founder and CEO), Evan Rosenbaum (Co-founder and adviser), Jake Adams (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** LinkedIn lists 51-200 employees; supplied third-party company data estimates about 230.
- **Products:** Genies Avatar SDK, Genies Studio, Genies Chat, Party technology stack, Experiences SDK
- **Notable:** Reached a $1 billion valuation in April 2022 after a $150 million Series C led by Silver Lake., Built official avatar and digital-goods relationships with major music companies, sports unions, and entertainment IP owners., Released a free, verified Genies Avatar SDK on the Unity Asset Store in November 2025.

## Products & services

- **Genies Avatar SDK** — A free Unity package for adding customizable, persistent, game-ready avatars, an avatar editor, closets, login, and wearable inventory to games and virtual experiences.
- **Genies Studio** — Consumer creation tools for generating a stylized 3D character and shaping its appearance, personality, lore, behavior, expressions, and voice.
- **Genies Chat** — A consumer surface where users can talk with and interact with Genies, including interest- and IP-based AI characters.
- **Party technology stack** — A stack for IP owners to build branded, UGC-driven game platforms using smart avatars, interoperable assets, games, marketplaces, and fan participation.
- **Experiences SDK** — Unity building blocks for login, avatars, inventory, multiplayer, AI traits, and game experiences built around persistent characters.
- **Art Forge and Content Creation tools** — Tools that generate, refit, rig, and optimize game-ready 3D wearables, props, and assets to match different avatar styles.
- **Smart Avatar SDK** — An in-development layer for characters with memory, personality, emotion, contextual awareness, autonomous behavior, and real-time interaction.

## Achievements

- Reached a $1 billion valuation in April 2022 after a $150 million Series C led by Silver Lake.
- Built official avatar and digital-goods relationships with major music companies, sports unions, and entertainment IP owners.
- Released a free, verified Genies Avatar SDK on the Unity Asset Store in November 2025.
- Reported more than 10,000 game developers building with its Unity SDK by August 2026.
- Sold six Mesut Ozil digital goods for a reported $500,000 in a 2021 Nifty Gateway experiment.
- Published the open-source Memora long-term memory benchmark; company posts say the paper was accepted to ACL 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Genies said more than 10,000 game developers were already building with its Unity SDK and began opening early access to web and native SDKs.
- **2026-07** — The company continued expanding its public developer roadmap, including avatar customization, Art Forge, and Smart Avatar systems.
- **2026-04** — WEBTOON announced an opt-in partnership to create interactive 3D versions of creator-owned characters, beginning with a curated set of titles.
- **2026-03** — Genies and the NBPA announced a licensing deal for official, game-ready basketball-player avatars.
- **2026-02** — MLB Players, Inc. agreed to work with Genies on approved AI characters of players that can converse with fans and support paid interactions and digital goods.
- **2025-11** — The free Genies Avatar SDK launched on the Unity Asset Store with an avatar editor, closet, persistent login, NPC support, and interoperable wearables.
- **2025-07** — Genies and Unity announced a partnership to bring smart avatars and UGC creation tools into the Unity developer ecosystem.

## Links

- Website: https://genies.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/genies-inc
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/genies
- GitHub: https://github.com/geniesinc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@genies_
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genies
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geniesofficial

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Last updated: 2026-08-22