Lemon Slice is building the future of interactive video by developing foundational technology that other companies integrate into their products. The company launched Lemon Slice-2: the first real-time AI avatar model that turns any image into a live, conversational video call. No training data. No style limitations. Just one photo and the product creates an instant interactive experience with any character you can imagine.

The company has raised $10.5 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, Arash Ferdowsi (CTO Dropbox), Emmett Shear (CEO Twitch), and EDM-pop duo, The Chainsmokers, to accelerate development.

Lemon Slice is a frontier AI research and product lab building the future of interactive video. The company believes all video will eventually be interactive-generated on the fly and personalized to whoever is watching. Lemon Slice is building both the core video foundation model technology and the platform layer to enable this new medium. Backed by $10.5 million in seed funding, the team of eight includes talent from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, CMU, and Duke with deep expertise in AI and a shared passion for visual storytelling.