Loom.ai

Loom.ai is a startup company that provides technology for creating personalized and dynamic 3D avatars from photographs for messaging, social VR, chatbots, games, e-commerce, and virtual classrooms for individuals and businesses around the world. Roblox acquired Loom.ai in December 2020, causing Roblox to announce it was delaying its IPO.

Loom.ai uses technology in computer vision and machine learning combined with VFX magic to create life-like human face visualizations. The animated and expressive faces can be used to power applications in VR, gaming, messaging, e-commerce.

Kiran Bhat, former Senior Research and Development Engineer at LucasFilms and Mahesh Ramasubramanian, and former VFX supervisor at DreamWorks Animation founded Loom.ai in 2016.

On March 1, 2017 Loom.ai announced raising their second round of seed funding with an undisclosed amount of funding from undisclosed investors.

On August 1, 2017 Loom.ai announced raising $1.5 million in funding for their third seed funding round from GREE VR Capital, Dentsu Ventures, DHVC, and Zach Coelius.