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AnotherBall Bet $30 Million That Your Next Face Will Be a Cartoon
The Tokyo startup turned a costly creator ritual into a one-minute phone trick. Now it has $30 million in cumulative backing, an anime studio and the harder job of proving that 200,000 curious sign-ups can become a lasting global economy.
GGContent (GC Social Media marketing Inc.)
GGContent (GC Social Media marketing Inc.) is a global influencer-marketing firm that connects game publishers and consumer brands with creators across Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok. Founded in 2017 and led by CEO JH Kim, the company pairs a hands-on gaming background with an AI insights platform, ContentFlux, that mines live streams, videos, and social posts across YouTube, Twitch, CHZZK, and SOOP to identify trends, sentiment, and the influencers actually moving a market. With 600+ campaigns and a database of hundreds of thousands of global creator channels, GGContent has helped launch titles like Dave the Diver and Blue Archive.
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.
Xe Iaso
Xe Iaso is a technical educator, open source founder, conference speaker, Twitch streamer, and VTuber based in Ottawa, Canada. The CEO of Techaro and creator of Anubis - the open-source anti-AI-scraper tool now protecting GNOME, FFmpeg, Linux kernel archives, and UNESCO - Xe built a cult following of 400+ blog posts that mix deep systems engineering with irreverent philosophy. Known for pioneering developer relations teams at Tailscale and Fly.io, and for coining their own title 'Archmage of Infrastructure,' Xe is the rare technologist who turned shitposting into a career strategy and made it work.