Jumbo Mana

What Jumbo Mana does

Jumbo Mana SAS is a French deeptech startup founded in 2022 and headquartered in Schiltigheim (Strasbourg area) that develops interactive digital characters powered by generative AI for deployment in public spaces. The company was established by a triumvirate of founders — Christophe Renaudineau (CEO), Frédéric Rose (CCO), and Fatma Chelly (CMO) — with backgrounds in AI, digital transformation, and international business. It is structured as a Société par Actions Simplifiée (SAS) with €275,000 registered share capital and self-positions as the 'European leader in agentic AI avatars.'

Its core offering is an interactive AI avatar platform that combines conversational AI development, voice generation or integration, 3D sculpting and character modeling, animation design, and expert-validated knowledge bases to deliver real-time human-like conversations in 17+ languages. The platform is delivered via three deployment formats — touchscreen kiosks (for airports, subways, malls), in-store tablets (for retail and duty-free), and smartphone/web apps (for remote access) — and is GDPR-compliant. Marquee product implementations include 'Bonjour Vincent,' a digital twin of Vincent van Gogh trained on more than 800 of his letters at the Musée d'Orsay (recorded 40,000+ interactions, 5 minutes/section, 200 press articles worldwide), and 'Bonjour Arthur,' an Arthur Rimbaud avatar launched in May 2024 for Charleville-Mézières that drove a reported +54% increase in museum visits.

The business model combines subscription (SaaS) revenue from ongoing avatar access with professional services revenue from custom avatar creation, billed annually on a quote basis. The go-to-market is enterprise field sales; named customers span cultural institutions (Musée d'Orsay, Charleville-Mézières, Musée de l'armée Bruxelles), airports (Vinci Airports / Lyon), retail (Galeries Lafayette), corporate (CMA CGM), luxury (Rémy Cointreau), telecom (Bouygues), government (Conseil de l'Europe, French Embassy to the USA, Val d'oise), and education (EHL, Hull's School). Jumbo Mana has 11–50 employees, no disclosed institutional investors, a 2025 funding event with OVH Cloud For Startups, and operations presently concentrated in France and Belgium.

Name

Jumbo Mana

Legal name

Jumbo Mana SAS

Website

https://jumbomana.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Jumbo Mana SAS is a French deeptech startup that builds generative-AI-powered interactive avatars deployed via kiosks, tablets, and web apps for cultural institutions, airports, retailers, government, and corporate clients across Europe.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Conversational AI / Interactive Avatar Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

Keywords

• AI avatar platform
• Generative AI characters
• Interactive digital twins
• Conversational AI public spaces
• Multilingual virtual agents

Headquarters

HQ city

Schiltigheim

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription Services: Jumbo Mana operates as a SaaS platform providing subscription-based access to AI avatars. Clients subscribe to access avatar services remotely via the platform. The platform offers formulas of service (Abonnements) that provide access to the Avatar for remote use.
2. Avatar Creation & Customization: Professional services for creating customized digital avatars including 3D sculpting, character modeling, voice generation, and animation integration based on client specifications.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Jumbo Mana builds and operates a SaaS platform for creating and deploying interactive AI avatars powered by generative AI that engage visitors in real-time, human-like conversations in public spaces. The platform supports 17+ languages, expert-validated content to prevent hallucinations, and is delivered via touchscreen kiosks, in-store tablets, or web/smartphone apps. Offerings are sold to enterprises and institutions through custom projects, including named digital-twin implementations such as Bonjour Vincent (Van Gogh) and Bonjour Arthur (Rimbaud).

Product overview

Jumbo Mana offers an AI Avatar Platform as a unified SaaS solution for creating and deploying interactive digital characters powered by generative AI. The core platform enables real-time human-like conversations in 17+ languages, available 24/7 with expert-approved content. Three deployment formats are offered: Touchscreen Kiosks for public spaces, Tablets at Points of Sale for retail, and Smartphone/Web Apps for remote access. Named product implementations include Bonjour Vincent (digital twin of Van Gogh for Musée d'Orsay) and Bonjour Arthur (digital twin of Rimbaud for Charleville-Mézières). The platform includes built-in features for real-time insights, interactive map integration, and enterprise-grade security with GDPR compliance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Interactive AI Avatar Platform SaaS platform enabling enterprise and institutional clients to create and deploy interactive digital avatars that engage visitors in real-time, human-like conversations. Supports 17+ languages, expert-validated content, interactive map integration, and provides actionable visitor behavior insights. Delivered as a subscription service.
• Avatar Creation & Customization Services

Quantifiable outcome

• +54% increase in museum visits (Charleville-Mézières project)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers13 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability8 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Wouter van der Veen (Van Gogh Specialist)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Scientific director and Van Gogh specialist who worked closely with Jumbo Mana on the 'Bonjour Vincent' project at Musée d'Orsay. Collaborated on training the AI using a corpus of over 800 letters written by Van Gogh to ensure historical accuracy and authenticity of the digital twin's speech patterns and personality.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• D-ID: D-ID produces AI-powered digital people and conversational video avatars, competing in the same enterprise avatar-as-a-service category Jumbo Mana targets.
• Uneeq: Uneeq builds lifelike digital humans for enterprise customer engagement, training, and brand experiences — directly overlapping with Jumbo Mana's interactive avatar platform and multilingual public-space use cases.
• Soul Machines: Soul Machines creates autonomously animated digital humans and conversational avatars for enterprises, the most direct functional competitor to Jumbo Mana's agentic AI avatars for public-facing deployments.

Emerging players

• Inworld AI: Inworld AI builds character-driven conversational AI agents with personality and memory, comparable in agentic AI capability to Jumbo Mana's avatars though primarily oriented toward entertainment and gaming.
• Ready Player Me: Ready Player Me provides cross-platform 3D avatar creation technology used across metaverse, gaming, and enterprise applications, with overlapping 3D character modeling capability relevant to Jumbo Mana's avatar pipeline.

Broad incumbents

• HeyGen: HeyGen offers AI-generated avatar videos with multilingual support, overlapping with Jumbo Mana on language breadth and avatar creation but centered on video output rather than live kiosk experiences.
• NVIDIA ACE: NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine is a platform for deploying interactive digital humans at scale; as a broad incumbent in the underlying AI infrastructure, it represents both a potential enabler and a competitive threat to specialty avatar vendors like Jumbo Mana.
• Synthesia: Synthesia is an established AI video avatar platform at much greater scale; it addresses similar enterprise avatar needs but focuses primarily on scripted video rather than live, interactive public-space deployments.
• Veritone: Veritone provides AI-powered conversational and digital-human solutions (including via its acquired engagements) for enterprise and public-sector buyers, an adjacent competitor in interactive AI avatars.

Others

• Aflorithmic (Resemble AI / ElevenLabs competitors): Voice-generation platforms like Resemble AI build enabling technology for avatar speech that Jumbo Mana either integrates with or competes against on the audio side of its multimodal avatars.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/jumbo-mana

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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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