Best 3D Animation Companies in San Francisco, United States
The 31 best 3D Animation companies in San Francisco, 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 San Francisco
| # | 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 | 20 mo ago | 7,703 | David Helgason Founder & Board Member | Node.jsNextAuth.jsMUI+30 | Top 50k | 6 patents Real-time telecom media services, packetized audio streaming, and unified messaging integration. | — |
| 2 | 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 | 8 mo ago | — | Fei-Fei Li Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+11 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 3 | Soul Machines Developer of a platform for creating and deploying digital AI workers | $135M | 56 mo ago | 14 | Julie Kim CEO | WixSentryApple iCloud Mail+24 | Top 1M | 9 patents AI-driven facial animation and image retargeting for digital avatars | — |
| 4 | Nfinite Provider of visual content solutions and data infrastructure for physical AI | $119M | 53 mo ago | 306 | Alexandre Vigan Founder & CEO | WebflowSentryWistia+28 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 5 | alt Pioneering Personal AI and World Clone technologies for human augmentation | $54M | 37 mo ago | 70 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 6 | Backflip.ai AI-based 3D design technology | $30M | 22 mo ago | — | David Benhaim Co-Founder & CTO | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+15 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 7 | Ai Foundation Provider of AI-powered personal 3D avatars | $28M | 75 mo ago | 24 | Lars Buttler Co-Founder | Node.jsElement UIAmazon Web Services+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 8 | Polycam Cross-platform 3D reality capture for professionals: document, measure, design | $22M | 33 mo ago | 21 | — | WebflowFirebaselit-html+17 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 9 | Bezi 3D design platform | $13M | 36 mo ago | — | Cecilia Uhr Co-Founder | Framer SitesVimeoReact+15 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 10 | Recraft Platform offering AI-powered design tools | $12M | 18 mo ago | — | Anna Dorogush Founder & CEO | SentryInstatusZendesk+16 | Top 50k | — | — |
| 11 | Mixamo Graphics tool provider for the game developers | $12M | 153 mo ago | 14 | — | Adobe Experience ManagerNode.jsJava+21 | Top 500k | 29 patents Real-time 3D character animation creation, editing, streaming, and facial motion synthesis | — |
| 12 | All3D AI Provider of AI-based 3D scanning and animation solutions | $9M | 25 mo ago | 46 | Amra Tareen CEO Co-founder | SalesforceThree.jsAnimate.css+21 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 13 | Latent Space Provider of an AI-based 3D rendering engine | $8M | 114 mo ago | 3 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Loom.ai Platform to create avatars for applications in AR, VR, gaming, and messaging | $6M | 102 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 | — |
| 15 | AssetHub Developer of an AI-native 3D editor for professional 3D modeling | $2M | 15 mo ago | — | Takuya Goto Co-Founder & CEO | TurbopackSentryNode.js+17 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 16 | DigitalCarbon AI powered platform for creating 3D models | $500K | 25 mo ago | — | Michael Nguyen Co-Founder | Node.jsThree.jsRadix UI+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 17 | Enflux Provider of motion capture clothing for instructors | $120K | 128 mo ago | 5 | — | — | — | 2 patents Wearable sensor-based athletic training feedback systems for performance monitoring | — |
Top 12 3D Animation companies in San Francisco
#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
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
#4
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—
#5
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
#6
Public · San Francisco, California · founded 2015 · 70 employees$54.2Mraised▾
Pioneering Personal AI and World Clone technologies for human augmentation. The company specializes in Artificial Intelligence solutions, aiming to create a future where individuals have their own Personal AI (P.A.I.) for memory preservation and decision-making assistance. Their core innovation, World Clone, seeks to mirror the physical world in a digital space, enabling real-time interaction and knowledge expansion. The company offers a range of AI solutions and infrastructure, including AI GIJIROKU, altBrain, CLONEdev Solutions, and EMETH GPU POOL. These products are designed to enhance knowledge management, streamline AI project development, and provide robust computing power. The company's focus is on integrating these technologies to drive continuous evolution and unlock new possibilities for individuals and society through advanced AI and data-driven solutions.
- Sep 2023Conventional Debt—
- Sep 2023Series D$12.9M
- Jun 2022Series D$27.3M
- Apr 2019Series C—
#7
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—
#8
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 306 employees$118.7Mraised▾
Provider of visual content solutions and data infrastructure for physical AI. It offers tools for generating product visuals and managing digital twins. The company provides solutions for e-commerce, retail media, marketing, and merchandising. It also offers data infrastructure for robotics simulation and physical AI model training. The company's platform analyzes visuals to measure performance and identify content gaps.
- Jun 2022Series B$100M
- Feb 2022Series A$15M
- Sep 2018Series A$2.3M
- Jul 2017Seed$1.4M
#9
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 21 employees$22Mraised▾
Cross-platform 3D reality capture for professionals: document, measure, design. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for capturing, processing, and sharing reality data across various devices. The platform empowers users to document anything in 3D, generate customizable floor plans, and create shareable models. It caters to diverse industries, including architecture, engineering, construction, forensics, product design, and media. The business model is SaaS, offering solutions for teams of all sizes, fostering collaboration and streamlining workflows. It provides tools like an AI 3D model generator, texture generator, photogrammetry creator, and 3D model viewer. It supports various file formats, including AutoCAD, Maya, FBX, GLTF, Unity, Blender, and Unreal Engine. The platform democratizes 3D creation, making it seamless, affordable, and collaborative.
- Feb 2024Series A$18M
#10
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 14 employees$135Mraised▾
Developer of a platform for creating and deploying digital AI workers. The platform offers tools for building customized, lifelike digital workers with human-like interaction capabilities. It provides integration across various AI technologies and workflow products. The platform enables businesses to deploy digital workers into roles such as customer service, operations optimization, and human resources.
- Feb 2022Series B$70M
- Jan 2020Series B$40M
- Oct 2018Series A—
- Nov 2016Series A$7.5M
#11
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2021$13Mraised▾
3D design platform. It facilitates 3D whiteboarding, advanced prototyping, collaboration, and seamless handoffs for designers.
- Nov 2023Series A$13M
#12
Seed · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$500Kraised▾
AI powered platform for creating 3D models. It is an online platform that uses AI technology to create 3D models and environments from photos and videos. It offers solutions for various applications like e-commerce, real estate and tourism.
- Oct 2024Seed$500K
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