ValkaAI

What ValkaAI does

ValkaAI is a B2B technology company building a real-time interactive AI video platform that produces lifelike, responsive digital avatars for enterprise customers, primarily in sports, esports, media, and interactive entertainment. The company's core technology combines three generative AI layers — video synthesis (GAN and diffusion models), audio generation (voice cloning and speech synthesis), and event simulation (reinforcement learning and transformer-based models for esports titles and traditional sports) — synchronized into a unified pipeline that aims to solve the quality-speed paradox in real-time video. Its proprietary framework pairs a low-dimensional motion representation with a motion model that issues high-level guidance for each frame, enabling flicker-free, temporally consistent avatar synthesis at interactive latencies rather than the batch-mode outputs of conventional diffusion stacks.

The platform exposes five product surfaces: a Real-Time Video Generation Platform (the core engine), Digital Avatars/AI Personas (the human-facing layer with cross-session memory and emotional modulation), an AI Commentator for live sports and esports, Speech Synthesis and Voice Cloning, and In-Game Event Generation for probabilistic game-state modeling. Underlying research is anchored by SIGGRAPH- and CVPR-published work and pending patents on stylized and photorealistic digital humans.

Commercially, ValkaAI operates as a spin-off of Realms Group, was founded in 2025, and remains pre-revenue with early commercial pilots planned in sports and esports. Its go-to-market is enterprise field sales, with a planned monetization model based on licensing its AI platform to businesses that deploy digital avatars for personalized, real-time customer interactions. The company is incorporated as Valka.AI B.V. (Netherlands) with a Czech operating subsidiary, has legal and operational presence in Prague, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and the UAE, and is led by co-founders Vlastimil Venclík (CEO, ex-Oddin.gg) and Miloš Lokajíček (COO, ex-Oddin.gg), supported by a research-led team including Principal Research Scientist Ondřej Texler and AI Lead Michal Kubišta (former Head of AI at O2). A €12M pre-seed round led by Rockaway Ventures in February 2026 — one of the largest in Central and Eastern Europe — is funding the research, product, and pilot buildout.

Name

ValkaAI

Legal name

Valka.AI B.V.

Website

https://valka.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

ValkaAI is a B2B platform that builds real-time interactive AI video and lifelike digital avatars for enterprise customers in sports, esports, media, and interactive entertainment, operating as a pre-revenue spin-off of Realms Group with a planned licensing go-to-market.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Generative AI Video Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (516210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA), Virtual Influencers, VTubers & Avatar/Face-Tracking (Gaming Creators) (MPAFAEAK), Metaverse & Social Virtual Worlds (BPAMAKAF)

Keywords

• Real-time video generation
• Digital human avatars
• AI video synthesis
• Generative AI platform
• Interactive entertainment AI

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. AI Platform Licensing (Planned): ValkaAI plans to monetize its AI video platform by licensing its technology to businesses for deploying digital avatars capable of real-time, personalized interactions at scale. Early commercial pilots are planned in sports and esports. The company is pre-revenue and currently in the product development and pilot phase, with the €12M funding allocated to research, product development, and commercial pilot implementation.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ValkaAI builds a real-time interactive AI video platform that generates lifelike digital avatars for enterprise customers in sports, esports, media, and interactive entertainment. The platform uses a three-tiered generative AI process combining real-time video synthesis (GANs and diffusion models), voice cloning and speech synthesis, and event simulation for esports and sports to produce unscripted, human-like avatars that respond in real time. Planned monetization is licensing the platform to businesses for deploying personalized, interactive AI personas at scale.

Product overview

ValkaAI is building an AI-native entertainment platform centered on lifelike AI personas that bring emotion, personality, and intelligence to digital experiences. The unified platform combines three interconnected capabilities: a Real-Time Video Generation Platform that synthesizes high-quality video using GAN and diffusion models, Digital Avatars/AI Personas that serve as the human-facing interface, and supporting technologies including AI Commentators for sports/esports, Speech Synthesis & Voice Cloning for authentic audio, and In-Game Event Generation for realistic esports simulations. The company focuses on interactive, always-on, and personalized entertainment where content can be co-created in real time, blurring lines between imagination and reality.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Real-Time Video Generation Platform A real-time interactive AI video platform that transforms passive video into interactive user interfaces using AI-powered digital avatars capable of personalized interactions at scale. Uses a hybrid framework combining low-dimensional motion representation with intelligent motion guidance for high-quality, flicker-free synthesis. Targeted at enterprise customers in sports, esports, media, and interactive entertainment.
• AI Commentator AI-powered sports and esports commentator that reacts to in-game action in real time, speaks the viewer's language, and adapts to their viewing style. Delivered as part of ValkaAI's interactive entertainment platform for sports media companies, esports organizations, and sports betting platforms.

Quantifiable outcome

• The €12M funding is one of the largest pre-seed rounds in Central and Eastern Europe, validating investor confidence in the team and AI-driven interactive media category.
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 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.

• Leading Universities and Research LabscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerValkaAI actively cultivates strategic partnerships with leading universities and their research labs. These academic collaborations expand the company's talent pool and knowledge base, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of shared learning and discovery. The company is a pioneering spin-off from Realms Group and contributes to advancing the broader research community.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• NVIDIA (Avatar Cloud Engine / ACE): Provides AI foundry services, GPU infrastructure, and avatar/cloud rendering tools (ACE) used to build digital humans. Comparable as an enabler/incumbent in the digital human technology stack that could also compete downstream.

Direct peers

• Hour One: AI virtual human platform that creates presenter-style videos from text, used by enterprises for training, marketing, and communications. Direct overlap in AI-generated digital avatar video.
• Synthesia: B2B AI video avatar platform that lets enterprises generate presenter-led videos from scripts. Direct competitor in the AI-generated digital human category with an enterprise sales motion and licensing model.
• HeyGen: AI video generation platform offering avatar-based personalized video for marketing, sales, and enterprise communications. Closely comparable in product offering, target customer, and B2B SaaS model.
• Tavus: AI video personalization platform that clones a person's face and voice to generate millions of personalized videos. Competes in the same real-time, personalized AI video space with enterprise customers.
• Soul Machines: Builds autonomously animated digital humans for customer service, education, and entertainment. Comparable in the lifelike AI persona category with B2B enterprise deployments.
• D-ID: Generates AI-powered digital humans and talking avatars from still images, used for personalized video at scale. Directly comparable in the digital human and AI video synthesis category.
• Colossyan: AI video generation platform with synthetic avatars, primarily for corporate learning and communications. Direct overlap in avatar-based B2B video generation.
• Runway: Generative AI video platform (Gen-3, etc.) offering text-to-video and video editing tools. Overlaps in AI video synthesis capability and creative-tool positioning, though broader than avatars.

Emerging players

• Pika: Generative AI video model focused on creative video synthesis and editing. Adjacent in generative video technology but less focused on real-time digital avatars for enterprise.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/valka-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors5 records

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M&A

Investments

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

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