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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.
LemonSlice
LemonSlice is a San Francisco AI research and product lab that turns a single photo into a real-time, talking video avatar - the visual face for voice agents and chatbots. Its Lemon Slice-2 model is a purpose-built, large-scale video diffusion transformer that generates every pixel from scratch to produce expressive, full-emotion talking characters (human or cartoon) that livestream at conversational speed. Founded in 2024 by three PhD-creators (formerly Infinity AI), the company raised a $10.5M seed led by Matrix Partners and Y Combinator to make all video interactive.