Best 3D Animation Companies in California, United States
The 98 best 3D Animation companies in California, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Unity.
Ranked: Best 3D Animation companies in California
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unity 🦄 Developer of a real-time development platform for 2D and 3D content 76Market top 14%Funding top 18%Tech top 18%Product top 22% All 13 signals ▾Markettop 14% Fundingtop 18% Techtop 18% Producttop 22% Moattop 31% Globaltop 34% Fin. healthtop 42% Growthtop 47% Customerstop 49% Innovationbottom 46% Talentbottom 40% Patentsbottom 38% Newsbottom 26% Market: 7,703 employees (top 2% of Gaming) · Revenue ~$1.8B Funding: Raised $894M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 17 yrs (0.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $894M | 15 mo ago | 7,703 | David Helgason Founder & Board Member | Node.jsNextAuth.jsMUI+30 | Top 50k | 6 patents Real-time telecom media services: packetized audio switching, streaming, and unified messaging | — |
| 2 | Cadence Provider of electronic design automation software for semiconductor industry | $352M | 38 mo ago | 3,177 | Anirudh Devgan President and CEO | Adobe Experience ManagerApple iCloud MailUnbounce+27 | Top 500k | 6 patents AI-driven clinical data analysis and real-time vital sign alert systems | — |
| 3 | Genies 🦄 Developer of tools for creating customizable, intelligent, and dynamic characters | $264M | 49 mo ago | 39 | Jake Adams Co-Founder & COO | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+15 | Top 5M | 6 patents Avatar creation, customization, and control technologies for AR and virtual environments | — |
| 4 | World Labs 🦄 Developer of artificial intelligence models for research automation and analysis 82Funding top 14%AI top 26%Growth top 28%Talent top 28% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 14% AItop 26% Growthtop 28% Talenttop 28% Techtop 43% Markettop 46% Moattop 47% Globalbottom 37% Funding: Raised $230M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence, machine learning rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 82/100 | $230M | 4 mo ago | — | Fei-Fei Li Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+11 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 5 | Soul Machines Developer of a platform for creating and deploying digital AI workers | $135M | 52 mo ago | 14 | Julie Kim CEO | WixSentryApple iCloud Mail+24 | Top 1M | 9 patents AI-based facial image regularization and retargeting for realistic virtual avatars | — |
| 6 | Nfinite Provider of visual content solutions and data infrastructure for physical AI | $119M | 48 mo ago | 306 | Alexandre Vigan Founder & CEO | WebflowSentryWistia+28 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 7 | Luma AI 🦄 Developer of artificial intelligence models for image and video generation | $73M | 7 mo ago | 10 | Amit Jain Co-Founder & CEO | SanityApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | Top 50k | 10 patents AI-driven media recommendation algorithms and ambient environment management systems | 1 launch |
| 8 | IMVU Provider of an online 3D avatar-based social network | $65M | 64 mo ago | 229 | — | — | — | 34 patents Real-time 3D avatar creation, rendering, and AR integration with lighting and privacy features | — |
| 9 | alt Pioneering Personal AI and World Clone technologies for human augmentation | $54M | 33 mo ago | 70 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 10 | Akool AI-powered platform offering video editing solutions | $40M | 15 mo ago | 17 | Jiajun Lu Founder & CEO | MintlifyNode.jsKaTeX+15 | Top 50k | — | 3 launchs |
| 11 | Backflip.ai AI-based 3D design technology | $30M | 18 mo ago | — | David Benhaim Co-Founder & CTO | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+15 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 12 | Ai Foundation Provider of AI-powered personal 3D avatars | $28M | 70 mo ago | 24 | Lars Buttler Co-Founder | Node.jsElement UIAmazon Web Services+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 13 | DoubleMe Developer of extended reality solutions integrating virtual, augmented, and mixed realities | $26M | 50 mo ago | 2 | Heeyoung Kim Co-Founder & CAO | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+17 | Top 50M | 20 patents Enabling real-time mixed-reality holographic capture, transport, and shared visualization of physical objects | — |
| 14 | ObEN Photo-real 3D virtual avatar using AI | $24M | 101 mo ago | 12 | Adam Zheng Co-Founder & COO | — | — | 14 patents Personalized neural speech synthesis and voice conversion technologies for custom TTS/voice. | — |
| 15 | Polycam Cross-platform 3D reality capture for professionals: document, measure, design | $22M | 28 mo ago | 21 | — | WebflowFirebaselit-html+17 | Top 500k | — | 3 launchs |
| 16 | Vizcom Provider of AI creative tools for artists and designers | $20M | 26 mo ago | 8 | — | SentryCannyThree.js+7 | Top 500k | — | 1 launch |
| 17 | Vntana Provider of a content management platform for AR applications 64AI top 15%Tech top 26%Growth top 28%Funding top 38% All 12 signals ▾AItop 15% Techtop 26% Growthtop 28% Fundingtop 38% Innovationtop 40% Patentstop 43% Producttop 46% Moatbottom 49% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 40% Marketbottom 24% Newsbottom 22% AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Tech: 49 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $13M | 6 mo ago | 12 | Ben Conway Co-Founder & COO | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | Top 5M | 13 patents Optimizing mesh data and containerizing physically‑based rendering pipelines for graphics engines | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 18 | Bezi 3D design platform | $13M | 31 mo ago | — | Cecilia Uhr Co-Founder | Framer SitesVimeoReact+15 | Top 5M | — | 1 job opening · 1 launch |
| 19 | Recraft Platform offering AI-powered design tools | $12M | 13 mo ago | — | Anna Dorogush Founder & CEO | SentryInstatusZendesk+16 | Top 50k | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 20 | Mixamo Graphics tool provider for the game developers | $12M | 148 mo ago | 14 | — | Adobe Experience ManagerNode.jsJava+21 | Top 500k | 29 patents Real-time web-based generation, streaming, and editing of 3D character animation data | — |
| 21 | All3D AI Provider of AI-based 3D scanning and animation solutions | $9M | 20 mo ago | 46 | Amra Tareen CEO Co-founder | SalesforceThree.jsAnimate.css+21 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 22 | Latent Space Provider of an AI-based 3D rendering engine | $8M | 110 mo ago | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | DeepBrain Provider of AI video generation, dubbing, translation, and editing tools | $8M | 58 mo ago | 74 | — | WebflowNode.jsReact+13 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 24 | Loom.ai Platform to create avatars for applications in AR, VR, gaming, and messaging | $6M | 97 mo ago | 18 | — | RubyRuby on RailsRackCache+20 | Top 10M | 17 patents Web-based real-time video capture, drag-to-record UI, and instant trimming/stitching | — |
| 25 | Volcano Platforms Automated and predictive simulation tools to generate training data for AI and ML | $6M | 9 mo ago | — | Cetin Kiris Founder & CEO | Google Siteslit-htmllit-element+3 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 26 | Hyprsense Provider of facial motion capture solutions for AR/VR applications | $4M | 94 mo ago | 8 | Kenneth Ryu Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | Uthana Provider of AI-based 3D animation solutions | $4M | 15 mo ago | — | Viren Tellis Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowNginxOpenResty+13 | Top 5M | — | 2 launchs |
| 28 | withpoly Visual content creation platform | $4M | 45 mo ago | 5 | — | SentryNode.jsUnoCSS+7 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 29 | Unomi Provider of software for facial animation | $4M | 100 mo ago | 5 | Obi Onyejekwe CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+36 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 30 | Clay3d Provider of 3D modelling review software | $3M | 61 mo ago | 4 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | DeepMotion Motion intelligence platform for animation | $2M | 39 mo ago | 15 | Kevin He Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowGoogle Cloud+16 | Top 500k | 11 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 32 | AssetHub Developer of an AI-native 3D editor for professional 3D modeling | $2M | 10 mo ago | — | Takuya Goto Co-Founder & CEO | TurbopackSentryNode.js+17 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 33 | Pinscreen Provides application for user-generated and personalized 3D virtual avatars | $2M | 105 mo ago | 16 | — | — | — | 16 patents AI-driven 3D avatar creation and facial image normalization for real-time rendering | — |
| 34 | Vibrado Technologies Wearable sensors to help athletes train | $1M | 142 mo ago | 3 | Cynthia Kuo Co-Founder & CPO | — | — | 8 patents Real-time biomechanical analysis and feedback using wearable sensors and video | — |
| 35 | Deep Sim AI-powered physics simulation platform for accelerating the design and development of AI chips | $1M | 20 mo ago | 2 | Connor McClellan Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 36 | Mamoca Developer of markerless motion capture technology | $750K | 229 mo ago | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 37 | DigitalCarbon AI powered platform for creating 3D models | $500K | 20 mo ago | — | Michael Nguyen Co-Founder | Node.jsThree.jsRadix UI+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 38 | Centroid Lab Provider of CAD-based 3D modelling platforms for industrial process simulation | $448K | 52 mo ago | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 39 | Faceware Technologies Facial motion capture solutions: cutting-edge technology for believable animation | $346K | 63 mo ago | 19 19 → 17 (-11%) | — | ContentfulNode.jsVue.js+12 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 40 | Enflux Provider of motion capture clothing for instructors | $120K | 124 mo ago | 5 | — | — | — | 2 patents Wearable sensor-based sports training feedback systems for performance monitoring | — |
Top 12 3D Animation companies in California
#1
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$230Mraised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence models for research automation and analysis. Provides software systems that process datasets, generate insights, and support experimental workflows across scientific and technical domains. Offers tools for data ingestion, model training, evaluation, and deployment within research environments. Enables automation of literature review, hypothesis testing, and analytical reporting through machine learning methods.
- Feb 2026Series E$1B
- Nov 2025Series D—
- Sep 2024Series D$230M
#2
Unity 🦄Public · San Francisco, California · founded 2004 · 7703 employees$893.5Mraised▾
Developer of a real-time development platform for 2D and 3D content. The platform provides tools and services for creating games and industry applications. It supports multiple platforms and offers features for monetization, user acquisition, and collaboration. The platform also provides learning resources, documentation, and community support.
- Feb 2025Post IPO$690M
- Jan 2025Post IPO—
- Nov 2021Post IPO$1.5B
- May 2019Series E$150M
#3
Luma AI 🦄Series C · Palo Alto, California · founded 2021 · 10 employees$72.8Mraised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence models for image and video generation. The company provides tools for creating images and videos using artificial intelligence. It offers models for generating high-fidelity images and videos. The company’s application programming interface enables building and scaling creative products. It also publishes news and research related to its models.
- Nov 2025Series C$900M
- Apr 2025Series C$10M
- Dec 2024Series C$90M
- Jan 2024Series B$43M
#4
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2012 · 12 employees$13.2Mraised▾
Provider of a content management platform for AR applications. It develops holograms that allow users to interact directly with holographic objects such as any product, or celebrity in the digital space simply by moving their hands in front of the display. After the visualization, users receive an email with photos or videos of their interaction and can also share the same on social media. It has applications in the sports, automotive, and education sectors.
- Dec 2025Series A$750K
- Jul 2024Series A$500K
- Jul 2023Series A$2.1M
- Nov 2021Series A$10.5M
#5
Seed · Palo Alto, California · founded 2021 · 17 employees$40Mraised▾
AI-powered platform offering video editing solutions. It is a platform that provides tools for creating video content, including face swapping, AI-generated avatars, and multilingual video translation. It supports various languages and provides features like real-time AI streaming avatars and lip-synced video translations for various industries such as marketing, education, and film production, enabling users to produce content.
- Mar 2025Seed$40M
#6
Series A · Palo Alto, California · founded 2023$5.5Mraised▾
Automated and predictive simulation tools to generate training data for AI and ML. The platform leverages graphics processing units to support simulation. It streamlines the process of creating computational meshes for simulations, and develops algorithms to support the reliability of simulations.
- Aug 2025Series A$5.4M
- Apr 2025Grant (prize money)$149.8K
#7
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2022$12Mraised▾
Platform offering AI-powered design tools. The platform enables users to generate and edit vector art, icons, 3D images, and illustrations in multiple styles suitable for websites, print, and marketing. It leverages AI to generate images in a style using style images, color palettes, and presets.
- May 2025Series B$30M
- Jan 2024Series A$12M
#8
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2020$30Mraised▾
AI-based 3D design technology. It offers 3D design technology for the physical and digital world including automobiles, buildings, video games, movies, and metaverse.
- Dec 2024Series A$30M
- Dec 2022Seed—
#9
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$2Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-native 3D editor for professional 3D modeling. The editor facilitates 2D concept art editing and 3D mesh generation using artificial intelligence. It offers texture generation, brush editing, inpainting, and segmentation features. The editor supports PBR maps, shadow removal, and multiple formats like FBX, GLB, and OBJ.
- Aug 2025Seed$2M
#10
Series A · Los Angeles, California · founded 2022$4.3Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based 3D animation solutions. It provides users with a company that uses machine learning and novel generative AI to automate motion capture and increase the speed of production. It can be used for designing characters and other virtual content.
- Mar 2025Series A$4.3M
#11
Public · San Jose, California · founded 1988 · 3177 employees$351.7Mraised▾
Provider of electronic design automation software for semiconductor industry. The company supplies computational software, hardware, and IP for designing integrated circuits, systems-on-chips, and printed circuit boards. Tools cover schematic capture, simulation, synthesis, layout, physical design, verification, and analysis for digital, analog, and mixed-signal circuits. Solutions support system-level design for electronics, aerospace, defense, and automotive applications.
- Apr 2023Post IPO$640K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$523.3K
- Oct 2014Post IPO$350M
- Jan 2007Post IPO$500K
#12
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2019 · 46 employees$8.8Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based 3D scanning and animation solutions. Its software enables users to create and render 3D models of products, simulate 3D environments with a 360-degree view, customise 3D assets, and scan products using its depth-sensing 3D scanning app. The scanned object is then converted into a 3D model. It caters to real estate developers, e-commerce, advertisers, interior designers, 3D artists, gamers, consumers and retailers. Its app is available across iOS platforms.
- Sep 2024Series A$8.8M
- Mar 2023Seed—
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