Convai
Convai is a Digital Humans & Conversational Avatars company founded in 2022 and based in Santa Clara, United States. It has raised $5M in total funding, most recently a Seed in 2022.
Founded in 2022 in the Santa Clara / San Jose area by Purnendu Mukherjee, a former senior deep-learning engineer in NVIDIA's conversational-AI group, Convai (Convai Technologies Inc.) builds a platform for creating 3D AI characters — virtual humans — that interact through natural language, multimodal perception, real-time voice, and animated gestures. The engine supports 65+ languages and integrates with Unity, Unreal Engine, and PlayCanvas, and Convai is a prominent NVIDIA Inception startup tied into NVIDIA's ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) for AI NPCs. The company raised a $5M seed round in late 2022 from investors including Monta Vista Capital and Rainfall Ventures.
A key partner in NVIDIA's ACE ecosystem and a leading vendor for embodied, perception-aware AI characters in games and 3D virtual worlds.
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