Building with the new Clay 🧱 ✨
Clay backs founders building products and technology that animate and reshape our lives and the world around us.We invest as early as possible with high conviction.
We're excited by exceptional people and next-generation products that fundamentally change the way we create, consume and interact.
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Our thesis
Today’s digital tools require creators to specify every detail of what we see, hear and feel.But the future is coming - and it will be different 🚀. Adaptivity will become a basic principle of the digital experience. Tomorrow’s tools will augment our capacity for expression by listening to, learning from and responding to us in real-time.
In tomorrow’s digital world, static, manually-designed applications will feel like ancient technology 💾.
Our investments
- Eleven Labs. class-leading text-to-speech
- Curio. AI-powered toys
- Loci AI. automated cataloguing for 3D models (acq.)
- Kartoon AI. UGC comics with AI-powered creator tools
- Liminal Experiences. AI-powered storytelling through play
- Big Smart AI. AI-powered search
- Ainia AI. AI-enabled EdTech platform for kids
- Dex. the learning camera
- Studio Atelico. on-device AI engines for games
- Nitrode. Cursor for game dev
- Raven Resonance. an open AR compute platform
- Cursive. frontier intelligence for a human-aligned internet*
- Curio. AI-powered toys