# Meshcapade

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

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Tubingen, Germany
- Website: www.meshcapade.com
- Total disclosed funding: $6M
- Latest round: Seed (May 26, 2023)
- Investors on record: 2

## About

Based in Germany, and founded in 2018, Meshcapade GmbH operates as a software company that offers 3D digital humans. The company is a spun out of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. The company was founded by its CEO, Naureen Mahmood, CTO Talha Zaman, and Michael Black. In February 2026, Epic Games, Inc., a portfolio company of The Walt Disney Company, CLO Virtual Fashion Inc., Kirkbi, DoubleDown Interactive LLC, Gorilla Private Equity, NCORE Ventures, Manhattan Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, Fidelity Investments, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Franklin Templeton, AllianceBernstein, Luxor Capital Group, Park West Asset Management, Appaloosa, GIC, BlackRock, T Rowe Price, Sony Group, Smash Capital, aXiomatic Gaming, LLC, Altimeter Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Vulcan, Ventures West Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, KKR, Kleiner Perkins, and Tencent Investment, acquired Meshcapade GmbH from Matrix Partners and CLO Virtual Fashion Inc.

Meshcapade provides a no-friction avatar-creation platform, which is an artificial intelligence-enabled software platform that uses machine learning to capture the statistics of 3D body shapes from many real human bodies and develops 3D digital humans using SMPL (skinned multi-person linear model) body model technology. The company’s product line includes Meshcapade Me, an online platform that creates avatars; Meshcapade Studio (digidoppel), a website that creates users’ animated avatars; and Meshcapade Me API integration. The firm offers Meshcapade Avatar Tech, a platform that offers avatars like SMPLify-X, PIXIE, VIBE, PROX (proximal relationships with object exclusion), DECA (detailed expression capture and animation), VOCA (voice-operated character animation), etc. The February 2026 acquisition enables Epic Games, Inc. to integrate the Meshcapade team into its artificial intelligence research department to advance the development of its Unreal Engine and MetaHuman technology and establish a physical presence in Europe's Cyber Valley.

The February 2026 acquisition enables Epic Games, Inc. to integrate the Meshcapade team into its artificial intelligence research department to advance the development of its Unreal Engine and MetaHuman technology and establish a physical presence in Europe's Cyber Valley.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, May 26, 2023, $6M — Matrix Partners, CLO Virtual Fashion Inc.

## Investors

- Matrix Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/matrix-partners) — Seed
- CLO Virtual Fashion Inc. — Seed