What Kinetix does

Kinetix is a Paris-based AI research company founded in 2021 that builds generative models and core technologies for character animation and 3D-conditioned video generation. The company's technology stack combines deep learning and 3D engineering to address human pose estimation, computer vision, automated rigging, mesh-aware retargeting, and video diffusion. Its flagship product, Kamo-1, is a controllable video generation model that conditions on 3D body poses, camera trajectories, depth maps, and reference images to produce physically-grounded video with independently controlled character and camera motion. Supporting technologies include video-to-animation, text-to-animation, Auto-Rig, Auto-Mapping, Mesh-Aware Retargeting (running at 67 FPS on an RTX 3060), and a Synthetic Data Pipeline that generates millions of perfectly paired training examples from 200+ hours of MoCap across 75+ actors and 1,000+ character meshes. The company has published multiple peer-reviewed papers documenting its proprietary methods.

Kinetix operates a dual go-to-market combining a self-serve credit-based platform at video.kinetix.tech (subscription and credit-pack model with no free tier) with enterprise technology licensing. Named platform integrations include Unity Muse (native integration of video-to-animation), Adobe Mixamo (licensed 3D animation models), and OVERDARE by KRAFTON (in-game Emote Creator with content moderation). The company serves primary segments of game developers and studios, filmmakers and creative studios, with secondary segments in metaverse platforms, robotics and embodied AI researchers, and world-model AI research teams.

The company has raised approximately $11 million in seed funding (May 2022) led by Adam Ghobarah's Top Harvest Capital, with participation from The Sandbox, ZEPETO, Animoca Brands, NAVER Z, Sparkle Ventures, and Entrepreneurs First. Its Scientific and Industry Advisory Team includes Philip Torr (Oxford), Daniel Cohen-Or (Tel-Aviv University), Ivan Laptev (MBZUAI), Julien Chaumond (HuggingFace CTO), and Max Jaderberg (Isomorphic Labs CAO). The company is GDPR- and CCPA-compliant and was included on SutraHR's Top 100 Best AI Companies in the World list in 2026.

Name

Kinetix

Legal name

Kinetix SAS

Website

https://kinetix.tech

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Kinetix is a Paris-based AI research company building 3D-conditioned generative models for character animation and video generation, serving game developers, filmmakers, metaverse platforms, and AI researchers through self-serve tools and enterprise technology licensing.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Animation Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Postproduction Services and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries (51219)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Multimodal Generation (Text-Image-Video-Audio) & Creative Toolchains (HDAAACAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

2D/3D Rigging & Character Setup (MPAHACAE), Animation Services for VFX (Creature/Character, Crowd, Simulation Support) (MPADAHAF), AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

Keywords

• AI video generation
• 3D character animation
• Motion capture AI
• Animation retargeting
• Generative AI models

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Platform Subscriptions and Credit Packs: Kinetix operates a credits-based platform where users purchase subscription plans (Plan Credits) or credit packs (Pack Credits) to access AI video generation and animation features. Plan Credits expire at the end of each billing cycle; Pack Credits remain valid until used. No free Credits are provided upon account creation — all access requires payment.
2. Technology Licensing: Kinetix licenses its 3D animation models, technologies, and AI capabilities to enterprise platforms. Notable licensing deals include integration into Adobe Mixamo, Unity Muse AI services, and OVERDARE by KRAFTON. This generates licensing/royalty revenue from OEM and embedded deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Kinetix builds AI models and a software platform for 3D character animation and physically-grounded AI video generation. Its core offerings include the Kamo-1 3D-conditioned video generation model, video-to-animation and text-to-animation models, automated rigging, mesh-aware retargeting, and a proprietary synthetic data pipeline. The technology is delivered via a self-serve web platform (video.kinetix.tech) and licensed to enterprise platforms such as Unity Muse, Adobe Mixamo, and KRAFTON's OVERDARE.

Product overview

Kinetix is an AI research company providing a comprehensive character motion intelligence platform. The core offering centers on Kamo-1 (3D-conditioned video generation), supported by video-to-animation and text-to-animation generative AI models. The platform includes proprietary tooling: Kinetix Auto-Rig for automated character rigging, Kinetix Auto-Mapping for bone mapping, and Kinetix Mesh-Aware Retargeting for motion transfer across characters. The Kinetix Synthetic Data Pipeline enables large-scale training data generation. These products power integrations with Unity Muse, Adobe Mixamo, and OVERDARE by KRAFTON.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Kamo-1 Kinetix's 3D-conditioned video generation model that brings physical grounding and precise control into AI video generation. Conditions on 3D body poses, camera trajectories, depth maps, and first frame to produce video with spatially coherent character and camera motion. Accessible via video.kinetix.tech and used by filmmakers, animators, and creative studios.
• Kinetix Video-to-Animation AI-powered conversion of RGB video footage into high-quality 3D character animation. Extracts full 3D animation from acting reference videos, reconstructing temporally consistent, lifelike movement. Targets game developers, animators, and creative studios.
• Kinetix Text-to-Animation Natural language to full body 3D animation generation model that produces temporally consistent animation with lifelike dynamics, keeping motion coherent across time while matching prompt intent. Built for creators and developers.
• Kinetix Auto-Rig Automated rigging AI technology that automatically infers an adapted skeletal structure for unrigged 3D characters using geometric and anatomical priors, predicting joint locations and kinematic hierarchy. For 3D artists, animators, and game developers.
• Kinetix Auto-Mapping Bone mapping technology that maps skeletal structures between source and target characters for animation transfer workflows. Supports motion transfer between characters with differing morphologies.
• Kinetix Mesh-Aware Retargeting Proprietary retargeting technology that adapts source motion to target character morphology by jointly modeling skeletal structure and mesh geometry, reducing interpenetration, clipping, and kinematic inconsistencies. Achieves 67 FPS on RTX 3060 GPU for near real-time use.
• Kinetix Synthetic Data Pipeline (SDP) Proprietary data generation pipeline that creates perfectly paired 3D human motion and 2D video data for training AI models. Uses motion capture data, mesh-aware retargeting, and Unreal Engine rendering to generate millions of training pairs across diverse character morphologies.

Quantifiable outcome

• 67 FPS retargeting speed on RTX 3060 GPU (vs. ~3 hours manual cleanup for simple motions)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability7 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Philip Torr (Computer Vision and ML Professor at Oxford)minorOthersPhilip Torr, Computer Vision and ML Professor at Oxford University, serves on Kinetix's Scientific and Industry Advisory Team, providing academic guidance on computer vision and machine learning research.
• Daniel Cohen-Or (Computer Science Professor at Tel-Aviv University)minorOthersDaniel Cohen-Or, Computer Science Professor at Tel-Aviv University, serves on Kinetix's Scientific and Industry Advisory Team.
• Ivan Laptev (Computer Vision Professor at MBZUAI)minorOthersIvan Laptev, Computer Vision Professor at MBZUAI (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), serves on Kinetix's Scientific and Industry Advisory Team.
• Julien Chaumond (CTO at HuggingFace)minorOthersJulien Chaumond, CTO at HuggingFace, serves on Kinetix's Scientific and Industry Advisory Team.
• Max Jaderberg (Chief AI Officer at Isomorphic Labs)minorOthersMax Jaderberg, Chief AI Officer at Isomorphic Labs, serves on Kinetix's Scientific and Industry Advisory Team.
• UnitycoreTechnology or IntegrationKinetix's video-to-animation model was natively integrated into Unity's Muse AI services, enabling game developers to generate 3D animations within the Unity ecosystem. This is a flagship enterprise integration powering game development workflows.
• Adobe MixamocoreTechnology or IntegrationKinetix licensed and integrated its 3D animation models and technologies into Adobe Mixamo, allowing creators to animate characters with AI. This is a flagship licensing deal bringing Kinetix's technology to Adobe's creative user base.
• KRAFTON (OVERDARE)coreTechnology or IntegrationKinetix's video-to-animation technology was packaged as an in-game 'Emote Creator' in OVERDARE by KRAFTON (creator of PUBG), enabling players to create custom character animations within the gaming platform with a moderation system provided by Kinetix.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Runway: Runway is a leading AI video generation platform offering text-to-video and video editing tools to creators and filmmakers. It directly competes with Kinetix's Kamo-1 in the controllable AI video generation category, targeting overlapping creator and studio customers.
• Pika Labs: Pika develops generative AI video models (text-to-video, image-to-video) for creative professionals. It competes with Kinetix's self-serve video generation platform on PLG distribution and creator-focused video output.
• Wonder Dynamics: Wonder Dynamics (acquired by Autodesk) built AI tools that automatically animate, light, and composite CG characters into live-action scenes. It shares Kinetix's focus on AI-driven 3D character animation and motion transfer, and is integrated into major creative platforms.
• DeepMotion: DeepMotion provides AI motion capture and character animation tools, including markerless video-to-3D animation, retargeting, and physics-based animation. It overlaps with Kinetix's video-to-animation, retargeting, and auto-rig product lines for game and animation developers.
• Move.ai: Move.ai offers markerless motion capture using computer vision to extract 3D motion from regular video. It competes with Kinetix's video-to-animation capabilities for game developers, animators, and virtual production workflows.
• Luma AI: Luma AI develops generative video and 3D capture models (Dream Machine, Genie) targeting filmmakers and creators. It competes with Kamo-1 in text-to-video and 3D-aware video generation for professional creative use cases.
• RADiCAL: RADiCAL provides AI-powered 3D motion capture from video for animation, VFX, and game development. It overlaps directly with Kinetix's video-to-animation and retargeting offerings for similar enterprise and creator customers.

Emerging players

• Plask: Plask offers AI-powered motion capture and animation tools focused on browser-based workflows for individual creators and small studios. It targets the same no-code animation use case as Kinetix but with a more consumer/creator focus.
• Cascadeur: Cascadeur (by Nekki) is an AI-assisted 3D character animation software focused on keyframe animation with physics-aware tools. It overlaps with Kinetix's auto-rig and animation tooling for animators and game developers.

Broad incumbents

• Stability AI: Stability AI is a foundation model company offering Stable Video Diffusion and other generative media models for video, image, and 3D. It competes broadly with Kinetix in generative video and animation, though its models are more general-purpose than Kinetix's 3D-conditioned niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Kinetix_studio
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCOg9kypfxbq_pZub5JRjDQA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kinetixtech
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php

Compliance2 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors11 records

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M&A

Investments

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