Character Technologies Funding History

Character Technologies operates a platform where people chat with AI characters.

Company Overview

Character Chatbots

Founded 2021 · Menlo Park, California, US

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Character Technologies Funding Timeline

Aug 2, 2024
Google Licensing & Funding Transaction
~US$2.7B (reported)
Led by Google.
Source · wsj.com ↗
Mar 23, 2023
Series A
US$150 million · $1B valuation
Led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Source · reuters.com ↗
Nov 15, 2021
Seed
US$43 million
Led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Source · businessinsider.com ↗

Character Technologies Founding Team

Noam Shazeer
Co-founder of Character Technologies; co-author of the Attention Is All You Need paper, ex-Google.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04
Daniel De Freitas
Co-founder of Character Technologies; previously worked on LaMDA at Google.
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-04

Character Technologies Products

Character.AI
Chat platform for interacting with fictional and user-created AI characters.
Official Website ↗
Details and Sources
Status: activeReviewed: 2026-11-05
Sources:support.character.ai