Village Ventures makes early stage investments in digital media and services and financial services.

Village Ventures

They invest in people, not companies. What kind of people? They place on bets on passionate people who are committed to the ideas and principles that drive their businesses. People who don't know the word ''quit,'' who aren't afraid to enter new territory and face unseen challenges. People who seek a different path, a better way, and who are entrepreneurs at heart.

Highway 12 Ventures

The University Venture Fund (UVF) is the largest student-managed venture capital fund ($18.2M) in the United States. UVF is an independent venture fund that leverages the innovation of students from around the country. It promotes entrepreneurship by creating a forum of students to be directly involved in venture capital. Associates in the University Venture Fund are given a unique opportunity to work together with seasoned venture capitalists performing due diligence on start-up opportunities around the nation. UVF has invested alongside many nationally recognized venture funds including Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Benchmark Capital, Battery Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Opus Capital, Best-Buy Capital, etc.  Major investors include Morgan Stanley and UBS. University Venture Fund invests in compelling new technologies, high growth opportunities and stable cash flowing businesses across a broad range of industries and sectors. This opportunistic investment approach allows UVF to take advantage of the latest trends and market dynamics and leverage the diverse backgrounds of our students. UVF only co-invests alongside other reputable institutional investors. Each year UVF hosts the University Private Equity Summit when business students from around North America gather to share best practices and learn from investment industry professionals.

University Growth Fund

Daz 3d

Founded in 2000, DAZ 3D is a 3D modeling software and content company specializing in morphable, posable human models, two of which are the most widely used 3D figures worldwide (Victoria and Michael). Used by top brands and illustrators, DAZ Studio gives amateurs and professional graphic artists a free, time saving tool to create and customize their creations. DAZ is used in film, TV, animation, video games, web design, print illustrations and more.     The company houses the largest library of dynamically morphable yet fully compatible content for sale, and is a marketplace for some of the world’s best 3D artists to monetize their work. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, DAZ 3D is backed by notable venture firms, including Benchmark Capital, Columbia Capital, Highway 12 Ventures and Multiplier Capital. For more information visit www.DAZ3D.com, and follow via Facebook or Twitter.

<div><p>Daz 3D is a 3D modeling software and content company specializing in morphable, posable human models.</p></div>

Imbuing emotion into human-digital interactions

Digital Humans

Daz 3D

Daz 3D Unveils Daz AI Studio with Partner Stability AI

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    Daz 3D is a 3D modeling software and content company specializing in morphable, posable human models.
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    Inworld AI provides an engine to build AI characters for gaming, the metaverse, VR/AR, and immersive experiences.
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Inworld AI

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    Soul Machines uses a cloud-based platform called Human OS to create digital humans that are highly realistic in appearance and behavior. This is achieved through the integration of various technologies such as its patented Digital Brain and Autonomous Animation Engine as well as third-party tools like conversational AI, sentiment analytics, and data integration. The Digital Brain is capable of contextualizing and adapting to different situations and can animate realistic human-like behaviors on its own.
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Soul Machines

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    DeepBrainAI allows the creation of digital humans for various purposes: business, recruitment, service, education, and personal. The company offers 100+ AI avatar templates to choose from and speech in 55+ languages. It also offers several digital avatar products such as AI Avatar (digital avatars for retail, banking, education, etc.), AI Human (creation of custom digital avatars), AI Studio (for creating videos), and AI Interview (digital avatars for HR tasks such as recruitment). In March 2023, the company launched its GenAI video synthesis solution, AI Studios 2.0.
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DeepBrain AI

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    Digital Domain is a visual effects and digital production company. Its Digital Human Group applies advanced creation techniques and proprietary technology for feature ﬁlms, real-time capture for live venue events, futuristic gaming experiences, and mobile and next-generation interactive digital human rendering.
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Digital Domain

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    ObEN's platform allows users to create their own digital twin by uploading a picture of themselves to the platform. Virtual celebrities, gaming, entertainment, and live streaming are noted as key uses of ObEN avatars. The avatars are designed to make interaction easy and aim to enhance the naturalness and simplicity of the virtual assistant or digital character. Once the avatar is created, users can live-stream and produce videos by transferring content to ObEN's real-time content creation platform.
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ObEN

Digital humans that engage in two-way conversations for customer service and employee training

Digital humans that deliver responsive interactions for virtual events, social media, and entertainment

Interactive digital humans for applications in education, fashion, sports, and others

Digital humans for one-way customer and employee communications, including presentations, training modules, or informational videos, and the like

Digital humans as characters in movies, news reporting, virtual events, and television shows without two-way user interaction

Digital humans as characters for video games without two-way user interaction

Digital humans for applications in fashion, education, sports, and others without two-way user interaction

Several digital humans are integrated with GenAI models

NLP is used by digital humans to understand, process, and generate natural language

AI and ML are used in digital humans to process data and generate responses

Digital humans can be deployed in the metaverse for a variety of purposes, such as virtual customer service, virtual events, and virtual social interactions.

Daz 3D

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