Hyper offers a lightweight avatar creation and performance platform that replaces complex motion-capture rigs with an iPhone and mobile app to make VTuber-style avatars cheaper and easier to produce. The company was incubated at Y Combinator (Winter ’21) and is based in San Francisco. Its core product targets creators and streaming use cases by simplifying avatar setup and distribution across platforms. Hyper is expanding its product line into AI-driven characters with Hyper AI, which uses OpenAI’s GPT APIs customized by Hyper to power conversational, generative characters. The startup plans to use recent funding to continue building its existing business and to develop new products around its avatar technology, including avatar AI assistants. The company has not disclosed usage figures in the article.

Total raised

$4M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jun 2023