LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Public profile shows Evgeny Kurishev as Co-Founder, CEO of Mirror AI Inc and reinforces the company's small-team, under-$1M revenue characterization on the profile snippet.
App that turns selfie photos into thousand emoji that look like you…
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Overview
Mirror AI is a founder-led AI avatar and sticker company that turns a single selfie into personalized emoji packs and avatars for consumers, while also selling a branded avatar/face-recognition API to businesses.
Primary product
Mirror Emoji Keyboard / personalized emoji and avatar generator
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Information Technology & Services
Sub-industry
AI avatar / emoji keyboard / facial recognition mobile app
Offices
Palo Alto, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
consumer mobile app
B2B API
freemium
usage-based pricing
custom enterprise pricing
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$3.5M
Latest round
Seed · Mar 2018
People & investors
Founders
Co-Founder
Investors
Acequia Capital
Acrew Capital
Adeyemi Ajao
Air Street Capital
AllegisCyber Capital
Alumni Ventures
AngelList Syndicator
at.inc/
Ataria
Backed VC
Better Tomorrow Ventures
Blank Ventures
BOLD Capital Partners
CAA Ventures
DCVC
Graph Ventures
Greylock Partners
I2BF Global Ventures
Kevin Durant
Lev Leviev
Peter Diamandis
Peter Thiel
SoftBank Group
SV Angel
Valar Ventures
Y Combinator
Work & culture
Small founder-led startup focused on personalization, creativity, multilingual messaging, and custom brand-style avatar experiences.
Compensation
No public employee compensation bands were found. Public pricing exists for the consumer app and business API, but not staff pay.
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium consumer app plus tiered usage-based API pricing with custom enterprise pricing
Differentiators
- —single-selfie avatar generation
- —1,000+ stickers
- —20 major languages
- —40+ avatar emotions
- —WhatsApp/Telegram/iMessage sticker-pack support
- —branded custom-style avatar API
- —facial-recognition-powered personalization
Technology
face recognition
computer vision
machine learning
mobile app
iOS
Android
WhatsApp
Telegram
iMessage
Kotlin
C
JNI
Qt
Customers
Consumers using messaging apps on iOS and Android
Brands and businesses embedding avatar/sticker experiences
Developers integrating avatar and sticker APIs into apps
Competitors
Ready Player Me
Pinscreen
Didimo
Animaze
Krikey
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
under $1M to ~$1.1M ARR
Estimated monthly visits
21K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Public profile shows Artem Kupriyanov as Chief Product Officer at Mirror AI Inc, with earlier roles in machine learning leadership.
LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Profile snippet says Serge Faguet was Co-Founder & CEO of Mirror AI, notes he raised about $5M from investors including Y Combinator, Greylock, SV Angel and a Peter Thiel fund, and says he left after hiring a successor CEO.
GetLatka · Apr 2025
Updated company profile estimates Mirror AI at about $1.1M ARR, 7 employees, and a $3.2M valuation; it also identifies Evgeny Kuryshev as CEO.
Crunchbase News · Dec 2017
Announcement of Mirror's beta launch and seed funding round; the article says the startup raised $3.5M and was valued at $30M.
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