A major step towards transforming the professional art-making process, Layer AI is pleased to announce the closing of its first seed investment round. Prominent industry players including gaming experts and serial entrepreneurs Jim Payne, Akin Babayigit, Michele Attisani, and Dilpesh Parmar attended the funding round. Gaming venture capital firms like The Games Fund, The Games Syndicate, GFR Fund, Laton Ventures, and others were also present. Furthermore, the business obtained a strategic investment from Devoted Studios, a renowned talent agency and art production firm in the United States.
With its main office located in San Francisco, Layer AI was founded by a group of seasoned individuals with a wealth of experience in computer vision, gaming, and artificial intelligence. The team, which is led by CEO Volkan Gurel, an engineering and management graduate from MIT, is made up of CRO Burcu, CTO Kuo-chin, PhD, and self-taught technical artist and game developer Mehmet, who co-founded Gram Games before selling it to Zynga in 2018.
The squad will expand carefully while keeping a laser-like concentration on gaming since they firmly believe that a small, exceptional team can outperform larger players. Talented individuals are encouraged to explore job possibilities at Layer AI by visiting their website, as they are currently growing its founding team.
Particularly noteworthy is Layer AI’s smooth incorporation into creative workflows and art pipelines, which results in an unmatched user experience and a notable increase in productivity. Customer reviews and in-depth case studies confirm Layer’s position as the go-to solution for developers of video games across the board. By providing a variety of AI-assisted features that improve the art production process, the platform enables creators to go beyond their creative limitations.
According to Games United’s Production Lead, “Layer supercharges artist teams’ productivity by 240% and helps expedite the delivery of art to meet deadlines.” Layer’s influence is also attested to by Tripledot Studios, which claims that “Layer AI supercharged Tripledot’s art creation, 3Xing our production speed and elevating quality.” The success of the platform depends on encouraging originality as much as speed. A worker at APPS Teknoloji states, “Our art pipeline is not only faster, the variations Layer provides has been super helpful in increasing our creative potential and exploring brand new ideas.”
Layer AI has already gained prominence by being adopted by the world’s largest mobile gaming studios. It stands out with its commitment to style-consistent output quality, rapid generation, and an intuitive interface, addressing the challenges faced by game artists using AI. The platform’s generative AI solution allows artists to generate images based on their unique styles and iterate seamlessly through its AI-assisted canvas.
The CEO, Volkan Gurel, likens AI’s revolutionary impact on art production to earlier technological advancements such as Web 2.0 and cloud computing. Gurel highlights that Layer AI wants to be at the forefront of this change by giving artists in the company the greatest possible product experience. Using the strength of core models and tools from industry pioneers like OpenAI, Meta, Stability AI, and others, the firm continues to be creator-first, enterprise-ready, and dedicated to being model-agnostic.