# Hotshot

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/hotshot

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: New York, US
- Website: https://hotshot.co/
- Total disclosed funding: $15M
- Latest round: Series A (Apr 14, 2021)
- Investors on record: 3

## About

Based in the New York, US and founded in 2019, Natural Synthetics, Inc., trading as Hotshot, is a developer of a platform designed for users to create and customize high fidelity 3D Avatars, and enable them to chat and communicate online through video chatting with their Avatars and accessing the third party social network platforms. The company was co-founded by Aakash Sastry and John Mullan and is backed by investors Seven Seven Six, Third Kind Ventures, Allen & Company, Scott Belsky, and Adam Silverschotz from the Series A funding round in April 2021.

Itsme mobile app provides high-fidelity 3D Avatars for users to make online conversations more expressive, comfortable, and not dictated by physical appearance. The app offers various activities including Avatar video chat, messaging, and Avatar customization.  Users can also create or trade items online like clothing, cosmetics, and accessories.

Itsme plans to release its next generation of high-fidelity Avatars, group chats, advanced methods to search the community, and more ways users can share Avatars across the web. It also plans to further develop its platforms, expand the team, scale infrastructure, and continue to invest in creating the most expressive Avatars on the Internet.

## Funding rounds

- Series A, Apr 14, 2021, $15M — Allen & Company, Third Kind Venture Capital, 776

## Investors

- Allen & Company — Series A
- Third Kind Venture Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/third-kind-venture-capital) — Series A
- 776 (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/776) — Series A