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Acquired byDaz 3d
Date12/09

General Information

Websitegizmoz.com
CategoryConsumer Web
Employees
Founded1/03
DescriptionPhoto animation

Offices

People

Chief Technology Officer
Board
Board
Board
Director of Strategic Relations

Former People

CEO & Founder
Vice President Products Strategy

Funding

TOTAL $18.1M
FUNDING TOTAL $18.1M
Series A, 5/07
Benchmark
Columbia Capital
$6.3M
Series B, 3/08
NGI Capital
Benchmark
Columbia Capital
DoCoMo Capital
$6.5M
Series C, 11/09
Benchmark
Highway 12 Ventures
$5.3M

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Gizmoz

Founded in 2003, Gizmoz has developed proprietary patented 3D and animation technology to let users express themselves by creating realistic 3D characters made from a single face photo. Gizmoz is the leader in 3D face-mapping technology, face manipulation and automatic face detection with several patents and pending patents in this field. Gizmoz provides a central service to design, manage and transport digital avatars that can be deployed in virtual worlds, online games, PC and console 3D games, social networks, video clips, greeting cards, mobile apps, as well as professional modeling and animation tools. For more information, visit www.gizmoz.com.

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Gizmoz

Websitegizmoz.com
StageLive
Launch DateSeptember 8, 2007
Tags avatar, wiki

Gizmoz is a community of photo realistic 3D animated avatars. Their service creates personalized 3D avatars based off of your 2D profile photo.

The avatars can be animated and speak. Users can purchase different virtual accessories for their avatars and embed them as widgets.

Gizmoz also has several celebrity avatars that can say recorded phrases.

Gizmoz screenshot
Above: Gizmoz Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 2/5/08

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Gizmoz

Sources

  1. TechCrunch (gizmoz.com) [edit]
  2. techcrunch.com [edit]
  3. Gizmoz Raises $6.5 Million (uk.reuters.com) [edit]
  4. TechCrunch [edit]
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