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About Facemoji

Facemoji is a plug-and-play avatar and NFT system for app and game makers.

Facemoji eliminates the hurdle of building avatar tech for developers and gives them easy access to NFTs and the metaverse economy. Our plug-and-play SDK lets developers easily pipe in stunning 3D avatars with fully customizable skins and virtual cosmetics via NFTs. Facemoji’s avatar technology is easy on the eyes and easy to integrate with a few lines of code thanks to its lightweight proprietary rendering engine and an in-house build synthetic ML pipeline.

“We believe fun avatars are the future of how we connect online, but adding avatars to an app or game is where payments were in 2009 before Stripe came along. We are changing that and opening new possibilities for the next generation of developers and creators.”

—Robin Raszka, CEO.

Fast facts

• Facemoji was founded in 2017 by Robin Raszka
• Headquartered in NYC with a fully remote team in Prague, Philippines, Spain, and Miami, Facemoji has 18 employees
• In August 2021, the company raised $3M seed funding led by Play Ventures and included Twitter, Roosh Ventures, Chris Lee, Eric Seufert, Abe Burns, Spacecadet, and others
• Before that, Facemoji was part of Betaworks' Vision camp accelerator in 2017 and raised $1.6M pre-seed in 2018
• The company has been under the radar, wrapping up its testing phase with a select group of partners, and has very exciting integrations coming up in the second half of 2021

Key features

• Proprietary rendering engine. Visually unified and native rendering across all platforms, orders of magnitude lighter than any existing game engines.
• Endless materials. With a custom rendering engine under the hood, there are no limits to materials, rigging, and blend shapes
• Expressive avatars. Just the right balance between photorealistic and stylized to avoid the uncanny valley but remain extraordinarily expressive.
• Proprietary datasets. In-house build ML pipeline enables facial, gesture, and full-body tracking from any RGB camera or voice to mirror expressions and animate avatars.
• Revenue center. Updated continuously with fresh and seasonal content from partners, brands, and creators to help developers benefit from the metaverse economy.
• User-generated skins. Following the steps of Roblox and others, Facemoji Studio provides an easy-to-use environment for users and partners to create their virtual goods and NFTs and sell them on the marketplace or OpenSea.
• Cross-species goods. All skins work across all integrations and avatar styles, letting users showcase their identity no matter what app or experience they are in.