Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
Genies is an AI avatar technology company powering the visual and embodiment layer for AI. Their avatar framework brings AI to life as fully realized AI personas that look, think, behave, and play like living identities. Genies powers AI companion, NPC, and agent use cases across enterprise, consumer, creator, entertainment, and gaming. Genies has raised $200M from Silver Lake, BOND, and Bob Iger. Genies is built on the belief that every website, app, game, brand, and human will have an AI persona.
To date, Genies has signed some of the biggest talent and IP partners across sports, entertainment, and gaming to bring them to life as AI characters. Partners announced thus far include MLB Players Inc., National Basketball Players Association, Sanrio, King Records, WEBTOON, and more.
IMVU is the world’s largest Web3 social metaverse, and a top grossing app in the App Store, where millions of users customize their avatars and explore over 400,000 destinations to connect with each other. Through chat and events, IMVU’s massive metaverse enables and empowers friendship and human connection. A community of hundreds of thousands of users power IMVU’s peer to peer economy by designing and selling virtual goods and destinations, adding to a growing catalog of 60 million items. The IMVU experience is available on the web, a desktop app, and as an iOS and Android app.