Layer is an AI creative operating system built for game studios and entertainment brands, enabling teams to generate, edit, and scale creative assets across images, video, 3D models, and audio without deep AI expertise. The platform emphasizes creative automation for high-velocity studios, helping them produce user-acquisition creative, live-ops content, and IP materials while keeping brand consistency and creative control. Layer integrates with industry-standard tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, Unreal Engine, Unity, and Blender, and claims to compress production timelines (for example, from 22 weeks to 5) while generating hundreds of assets per day. Layer raised $6.5M to build into a multi-modal platform spanning 2D, 3D, video, and audio for game creation.
Layer AI
ActiveAI creative OS for game and entertainment studios to make assets at scale
Total raised
$6.5M
1 round
Stage
Seed
May 2023
Team
11-50
since 2021
Pricing
Enterprise
Founded
2021
San Francisco, United States
Agent-ready
API
Score 40/100
Multi-modal asset generation (2D, 3D, video, audio)
Brand-consistent creative workflows
Bulk asset generation
Integrations with Photoshop and Illustrator
Game engine integrations (Unity, Unreal)
Live-ops and UA creative tooling
Team collaboration
Asset editing and iteration
40/100
Developing
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
May 2023 Seed $6.5M ● a16z speedrun
Capital network
$6.5M raised ·3 backers·10 network links
- Backers3
- Shared portfoliocompanies these backers also fund
- Extended networkfunds that co-invest alongside them
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General Intuition
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Scenario
Creative AI infrastructure for generating game-ready art assets at scale
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- What is Layer?
- Layer is an AI creative operating system for game and entertainment studios to generate and scale assets across formats.
- What tools does Layer integrate with?
- It integrates with Photoshop, Illustrator, Unreal Engine, Unity, and Blender.
- Who backs Layer?
- Layer raised $6.5M with backing tied to a16z and Y Combinator.
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