MARZ is a visual effects studio that provides VFX services while building proprietary AI solutions for the entertainment and gaming industries. The company is developing a suite of automated, AI-driven products integrated into both VFX and gaming technology, with two AI products currently in development. MARZ aims to address VFX capacity shortages caused by the streaming boom and to make VFX more accessible to a wider range of creators. The studio has completed 88 projects in its first three years, including work on WandaVision, Watchmen, The Umbrella Academy and Invasion. MARZ has grown from 45 employees in 2019 to 194 today, with plans to expand to 300 over the next year; more than a quarter of employees focus on machine learning and AI. Although based in Toronto, MARZ is remote-first with a distributed workforce across cities including Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, Madrid, Los Angeles, Melbourne, London, Moscow, Mumbai, and Mexico City. The company plans to use recent funding to accelerate R&D, hire research/engineering/product staff, and expand hardware and infrastructure to shorten AI development times and increase capacity efficiency.

Total raised

$5M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Dec 2021