Krikey AI

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Krikey AI
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded2017; 9 years ago (2017)
FounderJhanvi Shriram and Ketaki Shriram
Headquarters
San Francisco
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Websitekrikey.ai

Krikey AI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) animation company that converts videos to 3D character animations using generative AI. It also has a browser-based video editor with voice AI dialogue that uses ElevenLabs and Amazon Polly, a Canva app, and an Adobe Express Add-On.[1][2][3]

History

The company was founded by sisters Jhanvi Shriram and Ketaki Shriram in 2017 as an augmented reality gaming company[4][5][6][7] after the former worked at YouTube and the latter at Google and Facebook.[8] In 2018 and 2019, Krikey AI released an augmented reality game with the Audubon Society,[9] one with the Ellen Fund,[10] and one with Conservation International.[11]

The company's Series A funding round was led by Jio Platforms with the release of a game called YAATRA,[12] and as of 2020, Krikey AI had raised $22 million.[13][14][15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kemper, Jonathan (February 16, 2023). "Krikey AI generates AI animations for human avatars". THE DECODER. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Krikey AI is empowering storytellers with accessible AI-driven 3D animation - AWS Startups". aws.amazon.com. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  3. ↑ "How a Gen AI Startup solved its product gaps with the Canva Apps SDK - Canva Developers Blog". canva.dev. March 1, 2024. Archived from the original on September 20, 2024. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  4. ↑ Amidi, Amid (February 13, 2023). "Stable Diffusion Is Launching An AI Text-To-Animation Tool In Partnership With Krikey". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Jhanvi Shriram". WiDS Worldwide. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  6. ↑ Rinker, Brian (December 24, 2019). "Sisters find their niche in growing augmented reality startup". The Business Journals. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Post-Stanford, sisters found augmented reality startup". April 22, 2019. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  8. ↑ "AR Founders Showcase the Krikey App at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival". Mogul AI. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Audubon & Augmented Reality Gaming App, Krikey, Bring Popular Board Game Wingspan To Life | Audubon". www.audubon.org. October 16, 2019. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  10. ↑ "First year of Apple Entrepreneur Camp offers invaluable experiences to 100 innovators". Apple Newsroom. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  11. ↑ Harris, Austin. "New AR shark game is probably funner than Shark Week was this year". App Developer Magazine. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Jio-invested gaming company Krikey launches mobile game YAATRA". The Economic Times. December 2, 2020. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved March 6, 2025.
  13. ↑ Singh, Manish (December 2, 2020). "Jio Platforms backs SF-based AR gaming startup Krikey". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  14. ↑ Srivastava, Moulishree (December 3, 2020). "Reliance Jio invests in AR gaming startup Krikey". KrASIA. Retrieved March 5, 2025.
  15. ↑ Inc42, Team (December 3, 2020). "Reliance Jio Leads Series A Funding Of Mobile Gaming Startup Krikey". Inc42 Media. Retrieved March 5, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)