Anam是一家由Synthesia前员工联合创立的AI初创公司，致力于构建能够进行逼真对话的数字人。公司于2023年10月成立，总部位于爱尔兰，已完成900万美元的种子轮融资，由Redpoint Ventures领投。Anam的核心技术在于生成数字人的每一个像素，从而实现更自然的表情和对话。目前，Anam已拥有2000个客户，业务涵盖教育、销售、客户支持等多个领域，预计今年营收将达到500万美元。公司提供的One-Shot功能能够在几分钟内从照片生成AI数字人，并按对话分钟数收费。

🗣️ Anam是一家专注于开发AI数字人的初创公司，由Synthesia的前员工联合创立，旨在构建能够进行逼真对话的数字人。

💰 Anam已完成900万美元的种子轮融资，由Redpoint Ventures领投，资金将用于技术研发和市场拓展。此前，该公司还获得了230万美元的Pre-Seed轮融资。

👥 Anam拥有2000个客户，业务范围广泛，包括教育、销售、客户支持等领域。例如，施华蔻使用Anam作为造型师的教育工具，语言学习平台Preply则用它来模拟学习环境。

💡 Anam的核心技术在于生成数字人的每一个像素，以实现更逼真的表情和自然的对话。公司还推出了One-Shot功能，可以在几分钟内从照片生成AI数字人。

💸 Anam的盈利模式是按对话分钟数收费，预计今年营收将达到500万美元。公司目前有16名员工。

Anam has raised $9 million to build AI personas that can converse in real time.The Redpoint-backed company was cofounded by two Synthesia veterans in late 2023.Anam has 2,000 clients and is tracking $5 million in annual revenue, cofounder Caoimhe Murphy said.

Anam, an AI startup building digital humans that can have lifelike conversations, has raised $9 million in seed funding.

Redpoint Ventures, with participation from SV Angel, led the latest round. Anam, founded in October 2023 and named for the Irish word for "soul," had previously raised a $2.3 million pre-seed led by Concept Ventures.

Today, Anam has 2,000 clients ranging across education, sales, customer support, healthcare, and beyond. The hair brand Schwarzkopf uses Anam as an education tool for stylists, for instance, while language learning platform Preply uses it to simulate learning environments.

Other competitors like Tavus and HeyGen are also trying to solve what is a vastly difficult technical problem, Anam cofounder and CEO Caoimhe Murphy told Business Insider — from flawless lip syncing to realistic facial movement to near-immediate response times to the ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of users.

"There's no real winner right now," she said of the race to build the highest quality product. "That's why the market's so exciting."

Anam generates every pixel of its avatars, Murphy said, as opposed to how other rivals may only partially generate avatars or use a video on loop and just dub the mouth.

"That's where real expressivity and natural conversation comes through," she said.

The company recently released a feature called One-Shot, which can generate an AI persona from a photograph in minutes.

Murphy and Ben Carr, Anam's cofounder and CTO, previously worked together at AI video unicorn Synthesia. Murphy worked in sales, and Carr worked as an AI research engineer.

Anam has 16 employees and is tracking $5 million in revenue this year, Murphy said. It makes money by charging per minute of conversation.

"They're building the next interface layer between humans and machines," Redpoint partner Meera Clark said in a statement.

Here's a look at the pitch deck Anam used to raise $9 million in seed funding. A slide has been redacted to share the deck publicly.