CLONAR

What CLONAR does

CLONAR is a privately held Russian technology company founded in November 2018 and operating from Krasnodar (with a Dubai, UAE presence indicated in firmographic data), registered as an individual entrepreneur under Vladislav Matorkin. The company develops AI-powered digital avatar solutions that combine 3D modeling (built in Unreal Engine), neural-network conversational AI, automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), and real-time rendering to create interactive virtual assistants for business communication, sales, consulting, education, and marketing. The platform supports both autonomous AI-driven operation and human-operator control, with avatars customizable by gender, age, ethnicity, and language, and able to detect and switch to the user's language in real time. The product suite comprises a core CLONAR avatar system, a web-based CLONAR.WEB sales consultant module for online channels, and a management platform that supports dual-mode (AI/operator) control. CLONAR is targeting eight vertical use cases — retail, real estate development, banking, children's and adult education, children's psychology, pharmaceutical consultation, HORECA, and automotive dealerships — with custom-developed solutions and CRM integration enabling personalized recommendations. The business model combines subscription/recurring revenue for avatar deployment, SaaS-based management, and licensing for the web module, with all pricing delivered through bespoke quotes via a contact-form-led enterprise sales motion. To date, funding has been limited to a 2020 round of approximately $100,000 and a 3 million ruble government grant (2021) from the Foundation for Assistance to Innovations; the company has won Innovation Kuban 2.0 (2020) and first place at the Archimedes 21 international exhibition (2021), and states it is actively seeking additional investment and pilot customers.

Name

CLONAR

Legal name

Маторкин Владислав Николаевич

Website

https://clonar.ru

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CLONAR is a Russian technology company that builds AI-powered 3D digital avatar platforms combining conversational AI, speech recognition/synthesis, and real-time rendering for enterprise customer-facing applications across retail, real estate, banking, education, healthcare, HORECA, and automotive sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Conversational AI / Virtual Assistant Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Voice Assistants & Voice UI (VUI) (HDAAAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Contact Center Speech AI (agent assist, IVR automation) (HDAAAFAL), AI & Automation in Customer Service (Chatbots, Agent Assist) (EDABACAO), AI-Powered Language Tutors, Chatbots & Speaking Practice Tools (EDAFAOAC)

Keywords

• AI virtual assistants
• Digital avatar platform
• Conversational AI software
• 3D avatar technology
• Virtual sales consultants

Headquarters

HQ city

Dubai

HQ country

United Arab Emirates

HQ region

Middle East

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Virtual Avatar Development & Deployment: Custom development of digital avatars for business communication, sales, consulting, and marketing purposes. Solutions are tailored to specific industry needs (retail, real estate, banking, education, healthcare, HORECA, automotive).
2. AI Avatar Management System: SaaS-based system for managing AI-controlled or operator-controlled avatars, with options for human-operator control where avatars adapt to operator's facial expressions and voice, or autonomous AI-driven interactions.
3. CLONAR.WEB Licensing: Web-based platform licensing for online sales consultants accessible across multiple device types.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CLONAR develops and deploys AI-powered 3D digital avatars and virtual assistants for business communication, sales, consulting, education, and marketing. The platform combines 3D modeling, neural-network conversational AI, speech recognition/synthesis, and real-time rendering to create customizable avatars that can operate autonomously or under human-operator control. It is sold to enterprise clients across retail, real estate development, banking, education, healthcare, HORECA, and automotive sectors via subscription and licensing models.

Product overview

CLONAR is a unified digital communication platform that creates interactive 3D avatar-based customer-facing solutions. The core product (CLONAR) serves as the central digital communication system combining 3D avatar rendering, AI-powered dialog, speech synthesis/recognition, and motion capture technologies. The platform offers CLONAR.WEB as a dedicated web-based module for online retail sales channels, accessible across smartphones, laptops, tablets, and TV apps. A management system allows dual-mode operation — either AI-driven autonomous interaction or human operator-controlled avatar performance. The platform targets industries including retail, real estate development, banking, education (children and adults), children's psychology, pharmaceuticals, HORECA, and automotive dealerships, with customizable avatar personas for each sector.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CLONAR A unified digital communication system for business across offline and online channels that creates interactive 3D avatar-based virtual assistants powered by AI or controlled by a human operator. Used by enterprises in retail, real estate, banking, education, healthcare, HORECA, and automotive for consultations, sales, education, and marketing.
• CLONAR.WEB A web-based sales consultant offering for online channels that deploys virtual sales avatars across smartphones, laptops, tablets, and TV applications. Developed through 2 years of R&D focused on remote selling, with CRM integration for personalized product and property recommendations.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1000+ customer sessions conducted through avatars during testing
• +2 more outcomes

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability12 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Ready Player Me: Cross-platform avatar creation platform with developer SDKs, increasingly used for branded virtual assistants and customer-facing avatars. Comparable to CLONAR on the customizable, multi-platform avatar infrastructure layer.
• HeyGen: AI video generation platform with avatar-based presenter tools and multilingual lip-sync — a direct competitor to CLONAR's avatar-for-business-communication thesis, particularly for sales and marketing video content.
• Synthesia: Enterprise AI video avatar platform that lets businesses generate presenter-led videos with realistic digital humans — the closest direct competitor to CLONAR's avatar-for-business use case, but Synthesia focuses on pre-recorded video generation while CLONAR emphasizes real-time interactive avatars.
• Uneeq: Digital human platform purpose-built for customer engagement, sales, and support use cases across financial services, retail, and telecom — directly comparable to CLONAR's enterprise avatar-for-customer-service positioning.
• D-ID: AI-generated digital human platform offering both video generation and interactive avatar APIs. Directly comparable to CLONAR on the realistic 3D/photoreal avatar + conversational stack, with similar enterprise positioning across sales, training, and customer experience.
• Soul Machines: Creator of autonomously animated digital people for customer service, education, and healthcare — directly overlaps with CLONAR's interactive avatar use cases in retail, banking, education, and pharma, though Soul Machines is more focused on hyper-realistic CGI digital twins.
• Hour One: AI virtual human platform for business video content and conversational avatars, serving enterprise customers with realistic digital presenters — overlaps with CLONAR's avatar-as-virtual-employee model across retail, real estate, and education.

Broad incumbents

• NVIDIA ACE: NVIDIA's Avatar Cloud Engine provides the underlying real-time AI, speech, and rendering stack for digital humans — a broad incumbent whose tooling (TTS, ASR, NLU, neural rendering) overlaps with CLONAR's 26+ integrated technologies and could subsume parts of the stack.
• Microsoft Azure AI Speech / Azure Digital Twins: Microsoft's enterprise cloud platform offers ASR, TTS, conversational AI, and digital-twin infrastructure that overlaps with the components CLONAR integrates into its avatar platform — a broad incumbent whose enterprise distribution could either partner with or displace a small avatar vendor.

Emerging players

• Inworld AI: AI character platform for interactive, conversational digital beings — overlaps with CLONAR's AI-driven dialog + persona customization, but Inworld is focused on entertainment, gaming, and metaverse rather than enterprise sales/customer service.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/clonardss
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/clonar-dss

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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