San Francisco-based Lemon Slice secured $10.5M in Seed funding led by Matrix Partners and Y Combinat...
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The article introduces a new player in the generative video/avatar space with a seed round, but does not meet the $500M threshold for cross.Β§D capital tagging.
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San Francisco-based Lemon Slice secured $10.5M in Seed funding led by Matrix Partners and Y Combinator to scale its interactive video platform. Its proprietary 20B parameter model generates real-time, zero-shot conversational avatars from just a single image. This technology bridges the uncanny valley, enabling enterprises to deploy high-fidelity AI agents instantly. It signals a systemic shift toward personalized media where all video is generated on the fly. π
