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Union Avatars
Closed in 2025.
Union Avatars no longer appears in the directory or on the maps; its funding history is kept below.
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Union Avatars (legal entity Linking Realities, SL) built a selfie-to-3D avatar engine: users uploaded a single 2D photo and the platform generated a photorealistic full-body 3D avatar, delivered to developers via API/SDK for use in video games, VR/AR apps, social platforms and Web3, plus tools like a GLB-to-VRM converter. Barcelona-based and seed-stage, it raised roughly €1.2M in September 2022 co-led by Inveready and FI Group, later adding strategic backing from Mango, and was named by Forbes Spain as one of the companies changing the world in 2023. The company has shut down.
SectorsMetaverse & Web3, 3D Avatars / Digital Identity, AI & Computer Vision, Gaming & VR/AR, Developer Tools / API
Founders
A
Arman Najari
Co-Founder & CTO
C
Cai Felip
Co-Founder & CEO
J
Jordi Conejero Carrera
Co-Founder & CMO
Global models 4
GGenies
United States · genies.com ↗
Offers an avatar-creation engine and SDK that developers and brands build into their apps, games and digital-goods platforms.
~$250MComparable
R
Ready Player Me
Estonia · readyplayer.me ↗
Turns a selfie into a 3D avatar and gives it to game and VR/AR developers through an SDK and API, the closest direct match to Union Avatars' model.
~$72MComparable
PPinscreen
United States · www.pinscreen.com ↗
Uses AI to build photorealistic 3D avatars from a single photo and licenses the technology to games, VR and communication platforms.
~$15MComparable
DDidimo
Portugal · www.didimo.co ↗
Generates high-fidelity 3D digital humans from a photo and licenses them to game studios and app developers through an API and SDK.
~$10MComparable
In the same niche 9 others
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Investors 10
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FFI Group
es.fi-group.com
IInveready
www.inveready.com
MMango StartUp Studio
www.mangofashiongroup.com
CCentro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación
www.cdti.es
GGoHub Ventures
gohub.vc
A
ACCIÓ
www.accio.gencat.cat
D
David Arroyo
IInlea
OOutlier Ventures
P
Pau Gasol
Funding rounds 4
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-18 | Seed | €328K partial: only one investor's ticket was disclosed |
Inveready
+1 more
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| 2023-07-04 | Seed (estimated) | — | Mango StartUp Studio |
| 2022-09-19 | Seed (estimated) | €1.2M |
Inveready, FI Group
+4 more
|
| 2022-01-24 | Seed | €260K |
FI Group
+1 more
|
News 5
Open as list →| Published | Article |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 |
Interview with Co-founder & CEO Cai Felip of UNION Avatars ↗
Metamandrill
2026-06-16 |
| 2025-02-13 |
Interview With Cai Felip - CEO and Co-Founder of Union Avatars ↗
SafetyDetectives
2025-02-13 |
| 2024-10-19 |
El CDTI Innovación invierte, junto con Inveready, en Union Avatars, empresa que desarrolla una plataforma de creación de avatares ↗
Capital-Riesgo
2024-10-19 |
| 2024-03-19 |
NVIDIA Digital Human Technologies Bring AI Game Characters To Life ↗
NVIDIA
2024-03-19 |
| 2024-01-11 |
From Selfie to Cyberspace: The Revolution of Digital Avatars with UNION's CEO, Cai Felip ↗
Temy (Bright Founders Talk)
2024-01-11 |