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Inworld AI

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An AI developer platform for immersive realities/metaverse spaces

Mountain View, United StatesFounded 2021Consumer Services

Valuation $500M–1B Latest valuation · 2023

Revenue $1–10M Latest reported FY

Headcount <100 Current team size

Total funding $100–500M Disclosed equity funding

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About Inworld AI

Inworld.ai is a startup that specializes in creating artificial intelligence (AI) non-player characters (NPCs) for games. These AI NPCs are designed to have distinct personalities and contextual awareness, providing a more immersive gaming experience. The company's technology goes beyond large language models (LLMs), incorporating features such as safety, knowledge, memory, narrative controls, and multimodality.

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Inworld.ai's clients are primarily game developers and companies in the gaming industry. The company operates in the AI and gaming market, a rapidly growing sector with increasing demand for more sophisticated and realistic gaming experiences.

The business model of Inworld.ai revolves around providing a fully integrated character engine for AI NPCs. This engine is optimized for real-time applications, ensuring low-latency interactions that can scale to meet the demands of any game. The company makes money by selling this technology to game developers who want to enhance their games with AI NPCs.

Inworld.ai's technology is built by the team behind Dialogflow, Google’s conversational AI platform. This ensures that the technology is production-ready and designed to scale instantly without any additional configuration. The AI NPCs created by Inworld.ai can learn and adapt, navigate relationships with emotional intelligence, have memory and recall, and are capable of autonomously initiating goals and actions that are integrated with gameplay.

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At a glance

Status: Operational
Founded: 2021
Headquarters: Mountain View, United States
Employees: 88
Open positions: 11
Dealroom signal: 64.0/100
Industry: Gaming, Media
Sector: Consumer Services, Core AI, Immersive Technologies, Generative AI, MLops, genAI Operation Layer, Hard Tech
Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality
Business model: SaaS
Client focus: b2b
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Funding history

7 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal type	Date	Amount	Valuation	Investors	Source
EARLY VCOther financing	Oct 2023	$0	—	Dentsu Ventures	↗
SERIES AOther financing	Aug 2023	$50M	$500M	Lightspeed Venture Partners · M12 · Samsung Next · Stanford University	↗

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Year	Revenue	Growth
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2022		—

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Inworld AI website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Inworld AI is 490K monthly website visits, up 6.5% over the last three months. Inworld AI's team declined 16.2% over the past year.

Latest monthly visits490K 3-month web change+6.5% 1-year team growth-16.2%

Monthly website visitsOct 2022–Jul 2026

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Open positions

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Mountain View, California, USA Product Marketing Manager - USAMountain View, California, United States, Northern America, Americas · Marketing & Communication · Aug 27, 2026 Mountain View, California, USA Performance Marketing Lead - USAMountain View, California, United States, Northern America, Americas · Marketing & Communication · Aug 27, 2026 Mountain View, California, USA Lead Technical Recruiter - USAMountain View, California, United States, Northern America, Americas · Human Resources · Aug 27, 2026 Lead Technical RecruiterSan Francisco Bay Area · Human Resources · Aug 9, 2026 Lead Technical Recruiter - USAMountain View, CA · Human Resources · Aug 8, 2026 GTM Lead - USAMountain View, California, United States, Northern America, Americas · CSM & Support · Jul 23, 2026 Product LeadMountain View, CA · Business Development · Jun 11, 2026 Staff Data Engineer, Product AnalyticsMountain View, CA · Data Science & Engineering · Feb 24, 2026

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