What Animax Entertainment does

Animax Entertainment, operating as Animax Interactive LLC and incorporated in New Hampshire, USA, is a small private services firm that has pivoted from its founding in 2001 as a creator of games and virtual worlds on social networks to a three-line enterprise services business: AI and data annotation, digital production, and custom IT solutions. The annotation offering covers image, video, text, audio, and structured data with methodologies including bounding boxes, cuboid, keypoint, instance segmentation, and polygon labeling, applied across 16+ verticals such as autonomous vehicles, MilTech/defense, drone imagery, healthcare, agriculture, retail, FinTech, logistics, and maritime. Leadership is split between the US (Chairman Andrew Bain, Yale/Michigan background) and Ukraine (CEO Dmytro Mosharov), with a Senior Product Manager (Yakiv Kuznetsov) holding 18+ years of IT and project management experience including military projects since 2022.

The underlying technology is a human-in-the-loop annotation platform layered onto mainstream web and cloud infrastructure (React, Vue, Node.js, Laravel, MySQL/PostgreSQL/MongoDB, Docker, AWS, DigitalOcean); no proprietary models, patents, or research assets are disclosed. Revenue mechanics are professional and managed services: frames-based or hourly annotation contracts billed monthly with tiered per-item pricing, plus a Dedicated Outsourced Team module covering recruitment, payroll, tax compliance, and office administration at a service-fee markup. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. CCPA (US) and PIPEDA (Canada) compliance indicate formal readiness to serve North American enterprise buyers handling personal data. The company sells direct via its website contact form and maintains a LinkedIn presence (linkedin.com/company/animaxent), with no marketplace, platform, or third-party channel distribution. No external funding, institutional investors, M&A, or parent/subsidiary relationships were disclosed, indicating a founder-controlled, bootstrapped operating profile.

Name

Animax Entertainment

Legal name

Animax Interactive LLC

Website

https://animaxent.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Animax Interactive LLC provides AI and data annotation services (image, video, text, audio, structured data) alongside digital production and custom IT solutions, serving enterprise clients across 16+ verticals including autonomous vehicles, MilTech, healthcare, agriculture, and FinTech primarily in North America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Data Annotation Services

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Labeling & Annotation Services (HDAAALAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Annotation Tooling & Workflow Management (HDAAALAC), AI/ML Engineering & Model Development Services (BPAEAHAF)

Keywords

• Data annotation services
• Computer vision labeling
• Custom software development
• Digital production services
• Dedicated outsourced teams

Headquarters

HQ city

Van Nuys

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AI and Data Annotation Services: Scalable, secure annotation services for computer vision, NLP, and video-based AI models with human accuracy and expert QA. Offered through flexible frames-based or hourly-based annotation contracts with tiered pricing.
2. Flexible Pricing - Frame-based/Hourly Contracts: Frames-based or hourly-based annotation contracts with guaranteed specific number of annotation hours or frames per day/month/contract, billed monthly. Tiered pricing with predefined cost per item.
3. Dedicated Outsourced Team: Team assembly and onboarding of skilled annotators tailored to project requirements, with transparent compensation, quality assurance, and administrative support.
4. Digital Production: Design and delivery of digital assets including landing pages, marketing content, motion design, with fast turnaround and polished results tailored to client goals.
5. Custom IT Solutions: Custom software solutions, infrastructure, and integrations across web, mobile, and backend. Includes web applications, internal tools, CRMs, APIs, analytics dashboards, and automation scripts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Animax provides scalable, human-in-the-loop AI training data annotation services for computer vision, NLP, and video-based models using techniques such as bounding boxes, cuboids, keypoints, instance segmentation, and polygons. Beyond annotation, it delivers digital production services (landing pages, marketing assets, motion design) and custom IT solutions (web applications, internal tools, CRMs, APIs, analytics dashboards, automation scripts) on a project and managed-services basis.

Product overview

Animax is a data annotation and digital solutions provider offering three core service lines: AI and Data Annotation (bounding boxes, cuboid, key points, instance segmentation, polygons), Digital Production (marketing assets, web design, motion graphics), and Custom IT Solutions (web, mobile, backend development). Services are delivered through flexible pricing models (frames-based or hourly-based) and dedicated outsourced annotation teams. The company operates as Animax Interactive LLC, a New Hampshire-based entity supporting autonomous vehicles, MilTech, security, EdTech, retail, and FinTech sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI and Data Annotation Scalable, secure data annotation services for AI/ML teams across image, video, text, audio, and structured documents, supporting computer vision, NLP, and video-based models with human-in-the-loop accuracy and expert QA. Sold to enterprise AI/ML customers building models in autonomous vehicles, MilTech, security, retail, healthcare, and other sectors.
• Digital Production Design-led production of digital assets including landing pages, product pages, marketing content, and motion design, delivered with fast turnaround by a dedicated production team for B2B marketing and product teams.
• Custom IT Solutions Bespoke software development across web, mobile, and backend, including web applications, client portals, internal tools, CRMs, APIs, middleware, analytics dashboards, automation scripts, and integrations built on React.js, Vue, Laravel, Node.js, and supporting data and cloud infrastructure.
• Dedicated Outsourced Annotation Team Managed service that assembles and operates dedicated annotation teams for clients, including recruitment, onboarding, senior project manager QA, and administrative services such as payroll, tax compliance, documentation, and office space, tailored to specific project requirements.

Segments16 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature10 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sama: Sama (formerly Samasource) is a data annotation company specializing in image, video, and 3D sensor labeling for AV, retail, and manufacturing. It is a direct peer to Animax on the AI training data services side, with similar nearshore delivery economics.
• iMerit: iMerit delivers human-powered data annotation services for computer vision, NLP, and medical imaging, with offshore delivery centers. It is comparable to Animax in both service offering and nearshore delivery model for enterprise AI customers.
• Labelbox: Labelbox provides an enterprise data labeling platform supporting image, video, and NLP annotation with managed services. It competes with Animax on both the tooling (annotation methodologies) and the managed-services layer for enterprise AI teams.
• Defined.ai: Defined.ai operates a marketplace and managed services platform for AI training data including image, speech, and NLP annotation. It is comparable to Animax as a data annotation services provider targeting enterprise AI and ML teams.
• SuperAnnotate: SuperAnnotate provides an AI data annotation platform with built-in tooling for image, video, and LiDAR segmentation used in AV, medical, and drone applications. It competes with Animax in the same CV annotation categories and vertical segments.
• Scale AI: Scale AI is the leading data annotation and evaluation platform for AI, offering bounding-box, polygon, LiDAR, and video annotation across AV, defense, and government. It directly competes with Animax's core data annotation offering for enterprise AI training data, with much greater scale and capital backing.
• V7 Labs: V7 Labs (now Encord) provides an annotation platform for image, video, and document labeling with strong tooling around polygons and instance segmentation. It directly competes with Animax's annotation methodology coverage for computer vision teams.
• CloudFactory: CloudFactory offers managed teams of trained annotators for computer vision and NLP data labeling, including bounding boxes, polygons, and segmentation. It directly overlaps with Animax's dedicated outsourced annotation team model and frames/hourly pricing approach.
• Appen: Appen is a global provider of high-quality training data for AI, covering image, text, audio, and video annotation across verticals including AV, healthcare, and finance. It is a direct competitor to Animax's data labeling and annotation services business.

Broad incumbents

• TELUS International (Lionbridge AI): TELUS International (which absorbed Lionbridge AI) is a broad digital CX and AI data solutions incumbent offering multilingual data annotation, search relevance, and model evaluation at global scale. It competes with Animax across many of the same verticals but from a much larger enterprise-services platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/animax
• Xx.com/animaxent
• Facebookfacebook.com/animaxent

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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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