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Genvid Holdings Inc.
Genvid Holdings Inc. is a New York media-technology company that invented the Massively Interactive Live Event (MILE) - part TV show, part video game, where thousands of viewers vote on what happens next in real time. Founded in 2016 by Square Enix cloud-gaming veterans, Genvid has produced the Emmy-winning SILENT HILL: Ascension, the Webby-winning The Walking Dead: Last Mile, Rival Peak, and DC Heroes United. Backed by $166M in funding, the company is now extending its production infrastructure into studio-grade generative AI tooling for professional creators.
Jacob Navok
Jacob Navok is the co-founder and CEO of Genvid Holdings, the New York company betting that audiences would rather steer a story than just watch it. He coined the category MILE - Massively Interactive Live Event - and shipped it with Silent Hill: Ascension and The Walking Dead: Last Mile, where hundreds of thousands of viewers vote, bid, and play their way into canon. Before Genvid he ran worldwide business development at Square Enix and built its cloud gaming arm, Shinra Technologies. He raised $113M in a 2021 Series C to turn interactive streaming from a technology into a consumer brand.