ASIF Ventures empowers young entrepreneurs in the metropolitan area of Amsterdam to rapidly develop their bold and bright ideas by providing both financial and social investment.

ASIF Ventures

ACE Incubator is a university startup incubator that actively supports researchers, scientists, students and entrepreneurs with tech-driven ideas looking to transform their concepts into a feasible business. ACE is equally owned by 4 acamedic institutions in Amsterdam: UvA, VU, HvA and Amsterdam UMC. Today the incubator is home to young entrepreneurs who develop world changing concepts in industries like Deep-tech, Medical & Health Technology, Chemical & Advanced Materials and Sustainable Technology. Offering tailored programs, startup facilities, entrepreneurial network and mentorship from the best startup experts, ACE supports ambitious science and high-tech entrepreneurs across every stage of starting a business.

ACE Incubator

The Innovation Fund Noord-Holland invests convertible loans from 50k - 300k for new concepts and ideas from startups in the province of Noord-Holland.

Innovatiefonds Noord-Holland

Unknown Group supports founders and industry leaders to successfully bring innovations to the market. Unknown is an early-stage venture capital and business development firm. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.

Unknown Group

Orange Wings is a startup accelerator for promising new companies.

Orange Wings BV

Lalaland

Lalaland generates artificial full-body fashion models for e-commerce brands enabling them to show their collections on models that actually look like customers.  Today, brands use the company's models to increase conversion rates and decrease returns.

<div><p>Lalaland's software platform allows fashion brands to showcase their 3D designs on Lalaland's GenAI models.</p></div>

Imbuing emotion into human-digital interactions

Digital Humans

Lalaland winner of Tommy Hilfiger award for social innovation in fashion titel

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    Lalaland's software platform allows fashion brands to showcase their 3D designs on Lalaland's GenAI 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.

Levi Strauss & Co.

Levi Strauss & Co has teamed up with digital fashion studio Lalaland.ai to create custom artificial intelligence (AI)-generated avatars, which it says will increase diversity among its models.

Exploring the limitless possibilities of AI

Generative AI Applications

Companies that offer solutions to generate 3D designs and digital assets (including product prototypes, artwork, novels, and interior spaces) from text prompts or uploaded images.

Lalaland

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