Moonlake

Backed byThreshold Ventures
Total raised$28.0M
StageSeed
Hiring pace2 roles / 90d
Founded2025
Team size11-50
HQSan Francisco, CA
IndustriesAI/MLResearchSaaS

About Moonlake

The company builds multimodal reasoning models and real-time AI models that power simulations, games, and worlds. Its products are designed to generate dynamic simulations and interactive experiences in real time. By focusing on multimodal and real-time AI capabilities, the company aims to enable rich, immersive environments and engaging digital content. Overall, it positions itself as a developer of AI-powered tools and models for creating advanced simulations and game-like experiences.

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Company at a glance

Location
San Francisco, CA
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Founders & Leadership

JL

Jing Yi Lim

Founding Engineer at Moonlake AI

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RW

Ray W.

Chief of Staff @ Moonlake AI

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SA

Siddharth Ahuja

Head of Product at Moonlake. Prev. Co-founder of Prophecy, Visiting Faculty at CIID

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About the Team

Team Distribution

  • Other Specialized42%
  • Engineering33%
  • Leadership8%
  • Operations8%
  • Product8%

Where the Team Studied

  1. 1.Stanford University
  2. 2.University of California, Berkeley
  3. 3.Carnegie Mellon University
  4. 4.University of Pennsylvania
  5. 5.Dartmouth College

Team Worked At

  • Google
  • Netflix
  • Epic Games
  • Autodesk
  • The Voleon Group

Team Composition

6 people
  • Education1
  • Engineering1 senior1
  • Entrepreneurship1 senior1
  • Product Management1 senior1
  • Research1

Funding History

SeedOct 2025

$28M

raised

Moonlake AI, an applied AI lab enabling no-code 3D world creation, raised a $28 million seed round from AIX Ventures, Threshold, NVIDIA Ventures, Jeff Dean, Steve Chen, Naval Ravikant, Ian Goodfellow, Guillermo Rauch, and executives from Hugging Face, Stability AI, DeepMind, and OpenAI.

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