Meshcapade, a Tübigen, Germany-based startup specializing in AI solutions for modeling, analysis and synthesis of 3D digital humans in motion, raised $6M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Matrix with participation from a number of tech founders and investors, including Nate Mitchell (Co-Founder of Oculus), Matthew Ball (Author of “The Metaverse”), William O’Farrell (Co-Founder of BodyLabs), Andrew Hamel (Former VP Machine Learning at Amazon), Gary Bradski (CSO at OpenCV), and CLO. Diana Kimball Berlin of Matrix will join Meshcapade’s board.
The company intends to use the funds to train foundation models for the analysis and generation of 3D humans.
Founded in 2018 by Naureen Mahmood, Michael J. Black and Talha Zaman, Meshcapade leverages APIs and web-based tools to allows users to convert images, videos, 3D scans, motion capture data, text, and measurements into 3D digital humans. Its products are powered by the SMPL Standard family of body, face, hand, and foot models, the only commercially available solutions for 3D humans that use machine learning to represent accurate body shape and motion. Trained on over one million 3D and 4D body scans, the SMPL Standard is compatible with all game engines.
Meshcapade was born as a spin-off of the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen. Since then, it has grown into a supplier of 3D human technology to over 100 customers in the apparel, fitness, synthetic data, AR/VR, telepresence and entertainment industries, including 6 of the top 10 NASDAQ companies.
FinSMEs
16/06/2023