Krikey AI

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Krikey AI
Company type Private
Industry
Founded2017;8 years ago (2017)
FounderJhanvi Shriram and Ketaki Shriram
Headquarters
San Francisco
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Website krikey.ai

Krikey AI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) animation company that converts videos to 3D character animations using generative AI. It also has a browser-based video editor with voice AI dialogue that uses ElevenLabs and Amazon Polly, a Canva app, and an Adobe Express Add-On. [1] [2] [3]

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History

The company was founded by sisters Jhanvi Shriram and Ketaki Shriram in 2017 as an augmented reality gaming company [4] [5] [6] [7] after the former worked at YouTube and the latter at Google and Facebook. [8] In 2018 and 2019, Krikey AI released an augmented reality game with the Audobon Society, [9] one with the Ellen Fund, [10] and one with Conservation International. [11]

The company's Series A funding round was led by Jio Platforms with the release of a game called YAATRA, [12] and as of 2020, Krikey AI had raised $22 million. [13] [14] [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Kemper, Jonathan (2023-02-16). "Krikey AI generates AI animations for human avatars". THE DECODER. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  2. ↑ "Krikey AI is empowering storytellers with accessible AI-driven 3D animation - AWS Startups". aws.amazon.com. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  3. ↑ "How a Gen AI Startup solved its product gaps with the Canva Apps SDK - Canva Developers Blog". canva.dev. 2024-03-01. Archived from the original on 2024-09-20. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  4. ↑ Amidi, Amid (2023-02-13). "Stable Diffusion Is Launching An AI Text-To-Animation Tool In Partnership With Krikey". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  5. ↑ "Jhanvi Shriram". WiDS Worldwide. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  6. ↑ Rinker, Brian (24 Dec 2019). "Sisters find their niche in growing augmented reality startup". The Business Journals. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  7. ↑ "Post-Stanford, sisters found augmented reality startup". 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  8. ↑ "AR Founders Showcase the Krikey App at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival". Mogul AI. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  9. ↑ "Audubon & Augmented Reality Gaming App, Krikey, Bring Popular Board Game Wingspan To Life | Audubon". www.audubon.org. 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  10. ↑ "First year of Apple Entrepreneur Camp offers invaluable experiences to 100 innovators". Apple Newsroom. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  11. ↑ Harris, Austin. "New AR shark game is probably funner than Shark Week was this year". App Developer Magazine. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  12. ↑ "Jio-invested gaming company Krikey launches mobile game YAATRA". The Economic Times. 2020-12-02. ISSN   0013-0389 . Retrieved 2025-03-06.
  13. ↑ Singh, Manish (2020-12-02). "Jio Platforms backs SF-based AR gaming startup Krikey". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  14. ↑ Srivastava, Moulishree (2020-12-03). "Reliance Jio invests in AR gaming startup Krikey". KrASIA. Retrieved 2025-03-05.
  15. ↑ Inc42, Team (2020-12-03). "Reliance Jio Leads Series A Funding Of Mobile Gaming Startup Krikey". Inc42 Media. Retrieved 2025-03-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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