Robots Atlas>ROBOTS ATLAS

AVITA

ACTIVE
StartupRobotics company
AVITA Inc.AVITA株式会社アビータ

Japanese startup founded by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro building avatar and generative-AI software (AVACOM, AVATRE) and humanoid robots.

Founded2021Japan
HQTokyoJapan
Total funding¥1890000B2 · 2024
01 · About

AVITA

Founded 2021 · Tokyo, Japan

AVITA, Inc. (AVITA株式会社) is a Japanese technology startup founded on 1 June 2021 by roboticist Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro (Osaka University). The company builds avatar and generative-AI software: the AVACOM customer-service platform, the AVATRE (アバトレ) AI training service, an avatar API, and the AVITA OS layer for avatars and robots. It also offers avatar production and a BPaaS model with "avatar workers." It partners with KDDI on a customer-service humanoid integrating the Gemini model. By August 2024 it had raised JPY 1.89B in total (Series A of JPY 1.37B). It is headquartered in the Meguro district of Tokyo.

  • Hiroshi Ishiguro

    Founder, Representative Director & CTO

    Roboticist, professor at Osaka University, creator of androids (Geminoid, Telenoid). Founded AVITA in 2021.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

4 areas · 4 technologies · 7 industries
What they do4Areas
  • Humanoid robots
  • Embodied AI
  • Agent systems
  • Content generation
How they do it4Technologies
  • Generative AI
  • Embodied AI
  • Robotics
  • Agentic AI
Who for7Industries
  • Software & Technology
  • Robotics
  • Retail
  • Finance & banking
  • Healthcare
  • Transport & mobility
  • Telecommunications
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Tokyo · 2 regions
AsiaMiddle East
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2021 · Series A
2021founded
1.9B JPYtotal funding
Series Alatest round
growthdevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
activestatus
1.9B JPY
total funding
2 · 2024
SeedOsaka Gas, CyberAgent, Shionogi, Toppan, FujikinSeed round raised prior to Series A.
JPY 520M
Series AAugust 2024Pasona Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Shionogi, ATR, Suntory Holdings, Advance CreateCumulative funding after this round reached JPY 1.89B.
JPY 1.37B
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

1 strategic relations

Strategic relations

1
  • Partnership
    Partnership with KDDI on a customer-service humanoid (incl. an Osaka Metro pilot), integrating the Gemini model.
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 1 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagegrowth
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeStartup+ Robotics company

External links

08 · Related content

Articles

3 articles