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Oxford Metrics Knows How You Move. Now Comes the Harder Part.
Its cameras help animate game characters, study human gait and guide robot research. Oxford Metrics now wants the business of measuring the world to produce more predictable returns.
The Six-Person Studio That Put a Movie Camera Inside a Game Engine
How a former VR outfit turned into the off-the-shelf toolmaker for virtual production - selling filmmakers a camera that shoots worlds that do not physically exist.
The Garage That Sold Google Cardboard, Then Sold America Its Whole VR Stack
A bootstrapped LA outfit began by folding cardboard goggles in a garage. A decade and 10,000-plus headsets later, it sells the whole spatial-computing stack to hospitals, factories and defense labs.
Dragos-Florin Stanculescu Wants Your Digital Face to Feel Like You
After 13 years making games, the Holotech co-founder turned a webcam, a digital mask and one stubborn idea about expression into FaceRig, then rebuilt the premise as Animaze.
GOLFTEC
The company turned a country-club basement experiment into 250-plus training centers and a database of 14 million golf swings. Its bet: that the fastest way to fix your slice is to measure it.
Holotech Studios, Inc.
Holotech Studios, Inc. is a Romanian-American software company behind FaceRig and its successor Animaze - real-time avatar and face-tracking tools that let anyone livestream, video-chat, and create content as a 2D or 3D character. Founded in 2013 by a group of veteran game developers, the company turned an Indiegogo passion project into software used by millions of streamers, VTubers, and creators worldwide.
MOVRS
MOVRS is a San Francisco- and Los Angeles-based AI and computer vision company building vision models that understand how people move and interact in the real world. It turns ordinary video into high-fidelity 3D human data and biomechanical measurements - no bodysuits, no marker dots, no camera arrays - and applies that data to sports storytelling, athlete training, and machine-learning datasets for industries from healthcare to robotics.
Dorian Pieracci
Dorian Pieracci is the Co-Founder and CEO of MOVRS, a Los Angeles sports-technology company that turns ordinary video into structured, labeled 3D data about how humans move. Founded in 2020, MOVRS builds AI-powered biomechanics and digital-twin tools for sports and entertainment partners, from baseball pitching analysis to immersive broadcast experiences. A Georgetown-trained sports industry executive and UC Berkeley graduate, Pieracci is a Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech accelerator alum who pivoted MOVRS from direct sales to a partner-led model and assembled a team drawn from MLB and major sports media.
Satayan Mahajan
Satayan Mahajan is the founding CEO of Datalign Advisory, a Cambridge, Massachusetts fintech that matches Americans with vetted fiduciary financial advisors using AI and human-centered design. An MIT alumnus and Media Lab pioneer, he spent two decades building motion-capture and gaming companies (Motus, iClub) before an eight-year run at Amazon as a GM and Head of Product. He returned to startup mode in 2024 when Cogo Labs founder Dave Blundin recruited him to lead Datalign, which has since referred more than $80 billion in assets across thousands of advisors.