Flam Raises $40 Million Series B

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; Flam&comma; an AI interactive content company&comma; has raised &dollar;40 million in Series B funding led by QED Investors&period; Claypond Capital&comma; Martin Chavez&comma; Olivier Pomel&comma; Venky Harinarayan&comma; and Shahrukh Khan joined the round&comma; with existing investors RTP Global and Dovetail doubling down&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Flam says it has signed more than 100 enterprise customers in six quarters&comma; including Google&comma; State Farm&comma; and Diageo&period; They use it for marketing&comma; product visualization&comma; learning and development&comma; entertainment&comma; fan engagement&comma; customer support and sales&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Flam is built on a simple observation&period; Content has moved in waves&comma; from text to images to video&comma; and every wave flowed one way&comma; creator to viewer&period; We think interactive is the next default for the internet&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Shourya Agarwal&comma; Founder of Flam&period; &&num;8220&semi;The demand was always there&period; The technology wasn&&num;8217&semi;t&period; We have made interactivity effortless to build and deploy at enterprise scale&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Flam holds more than 15 patents and ships three formats&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Flicks<&sol;b> are interactive videos that switch person&comma; product&comma; or scene mid-playback&comma; using a patented compression algorithm&comma; delivered programmatically at 50ms time-to-first-buffer&period; Forge&comma; Flam&&num;8217&semi;s editing model&comma; takes image references and changes only the specified element&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Airboards<&sol;b> are high-fidelity 3D content on a camera interface&comma; with touch&comma; voice interactions&comma; and haptic feedback&period; Flam&&num;8217&semi;s 3D streaming loads them in 300ms&comma; with no app to install&period; Fable&comma; an image-to-video model&comma; generates the assets as native alpha channel videos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b>Visual Agents<&sol;b> are human-like characters that hold conversations and take agentic actions&period; A video call rather than a chat window&period; Fantom handles facial expression through identity preservation and motion transfer&comma; Finesse handles voice in any language&comma; and Falcon&comma; a 26B-parameter MoE LLM&comma; delivers responses at 30ms time-to-first-token&period; The pipeline returns an answer in under two seconds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nigel Morris&comma; Co-Founder and Managing Partner at QED Investors&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Almost every frontier AI content company we see is optimizing what already exists&period; Flam pointed at something else&colon; how much of the content ecosystem is still untouched&period; That gap is bigger than most people think&comma; and Flam is the first team we&&num;8217&semi;ve seen with the infrastructure to go after it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;