Layer is an AI-powered content creation platform built specifically for game developers, offering a professional suite to build, manage, and refine 2D, 3D and video assets. The platform integrates generative AI directly into existing pipelines to reduce production time and scale content while preserving brand consistency and creative control. Layer is enterprise-ready and is used by more than 200 studios, including Zynga, Tripledot, SciPlay, Huuuge Games and Machine Zone. The founding team includes industry veterans from Unity and MIT; Volkan Gurel is co-founder and CEO and is referenced alongside co-founder Burcu. With its seed financing, Layer plans to expand the team and build additional features to support a broader range of games and production pipelines. The company is based in San Francisco. Layer AI offers an enterprise-ready, creator-first AI-assisted canvas that enables professional artists to generate images in their own art styles and iterate on them. The product focuses on 2D generation for games, targeting mobile studios first and then AAA teams. The team emphasizes style-consistent output quality and seamless workflow integrations to reduce redundant overhead for artists. Leadership is led by CEO Volkan Gurel. Layer plans to expand capabilities to generate spine and sprite animations from text, images, and other animations, and to extend into 3D workflows. The company also intends to build integrations for non-gaming workflows such as marketing and advertising. With a new $1.8M seed round, Layer will use the funds to expand operations and development efforts.

Total raised

$8M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

May 2025