Lalaland (company)

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Lalaland
IndustryFashion-Tech
FounderMichael Musandu, Ugnius Rimsa
Headquarters Amsterdam, Netherlands
Number of employees
10-50
Website https://lalaland.ai/

Lalaland is an Amsterdam-Based Dutch tech startup that creates artificial intelligence based virtual models for e-commerce, [1] founded in 2019 by Michael Musandu and Ugnius Rimsa. In 2022 it would win the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge. [2] Then in 2022 its founders would join the European Forbes 30 under 30 list as well as Levi Strauss & Co. announcing a partnership with the company. [3] [4]

History

The startup was co-founded in 2019 by Michael Musandu and Ugnius Rimsa. [5] Lalaland states that the concept of creating AI based synthetic, full-body virtual supermodels is aimed to replace the traditional human models to reduce cost to vendors and to increase diversity in product representation. [6]

In April 2020, Lalaland received a pre-seed funding from Amsterdam-based venture capital fund ASIF Ventures. [6] In May 2020, Lalaland won the 15th Philips Innovation Award. [7] In June 2021, the startup received €350.000 funding from Google under its program to fund the ventures initiated by the people of color. [8]

In January 2022, Lalaland won the Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge, [2] which includes a prize of €100,000 and mentorship opportunities. [9]

In June 2022 Lalaland raised €2.1M in a new pre-Series-A round of funding. [10]

In March 2022 Michael and Ugnius made it to the European Forbes 30 under 30 list in the retail and e-commerce list, which identifies entrepreneurs under the age of 30 who, the Forbes page notes, are “reinventing how we shop, both online and offline.”. [3] The same month, Levi Strauss & Co. announced a partnership with the aim for later this year, to test AI-generated models to supplement human models, increasing the number and diversity of their models for their products in a sustainable way. [4]



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