We raised $10.5M

Interactive video is the future. Grateful to Y Combinator, Matrix, Mantis Venture Capital, Emmett Shear (Twitch Co-founder/CEO), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox Co-founder/CT).

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Interactive video is the future. We raised over $10M seed round to build it. Our interactive video model - Lemon Slice 2 - just launched: real-time talking avatars that stream at 20fps on a single GPU from one photo.

Talk to avatars now: lemonslice.com (no signup) Or integrate into your product using our API.

ElevenLabs gave AI a voice. We're giving it a face.

Grateful to Y Combinator, Matrix, Mantis Venture Capital, Emmett Shear (Twitch Co-founder/CEO), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox Co-founder/CTO), Jared Friedman, Ilya Sukhar, and everyone backing us - and thanks to Ivan Mehta for the TechCrunch feature.

PS - We're hiring!

Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech | TechCrunch | Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.

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