Beachhead is a venture capital firm investing in high-growth Australian companies looking to grow bigger, go further and achieve more.

Beachhead Venture Capital

Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets.  It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital. Alium Capital was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.

Alium Capital

Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-up and early stage companies.

Icehouse Ventures

UneeQ

UneeQ is a platform that enables chatbots to become an engaging, visual customer experience that creates emotional connection. Using UneeQ, businesses and creators can design digital humans to embody their brand and bring the human touch (emotional quotient or ‘EQ’) back to a digital world - something a form, website or even a chatbot can’t do.  UneeQ digital humans are the future brand ambassadors of organizations. UneeQ digital humans have EQ - they can understand and respond to users with empathy and emotion. They function beyond ‘knowledge intelligence’ (IQ) only to build a personal connection with the customers they interact with.  Powered by AI, UneeQ’s intelligent digital human platform supercharges a brand’s ability to create, real-time interaction based on tailored content and memorable personas who build an emotional connection with customers by using the power of the human face.  UneeQ is a global enterprise with customers across Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.

<div><p>UneeQ is an autonomous digital human platform that helps brands engage in one-on-one personalized conversations with customers. Users can opt for its pre-made digital human Sophie, create their own avatar in Unreal&rsquo;s MetaHuman, or use a personalized digital human ambassador created by UneeQ. The digital human is available in 70+ languages and users can choose out-of-the-box voice solutions offered by the company or clone the voice of a real person. Converse360 is the company's UK partner.</p></div>

Imbuing emotion into human-digital interactions

Digital Humans

Virtual Digital Human Market - Major Technology Giants in Buzz Again | UneeQ, SantosHuman, Didimo, Netlife Robotics

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    UneeQ is an autonomous digital human platform that helps brands engage in one-on-one personalized conversations with customers. Users can opt for its pre-made digital human Sophie, create their own avatar in Unreal&rsquo;s MetaHuman, or use a personalized digital human ambassador created by UneeQ. The digital human is available in 70+ languages and users can choose out-of-the-box voice solutions offered by the company or clone the voice of a real person. Converse360 is the company's UK partner.
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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.

UneeQ

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