Series A · $150M
$150M Series A.
Media Models · Private company · Deployment
Character.AI
✓ VerifiedCharacter.AI remains one of the largest consumer experiments in persistent AI personalities and is expanding from chat into interactive media.
Menlo Park, USFounded 2021No public API trackedWeekday review
Editorial intelligence brief
What matters now
Launched studio-made c.ai series in July 2026 after adding playable books, model upgrades, memory, and visual creation features.
Focus: Consumer character agents, interactive stories, social creation, and multimodal entertainment
Latest funding
$150M
Series A · source-backed
Tracked funding
$150M
Sum of itemized funding events
Latest valuation
Not tracked
No source-backed record
Latest revenue
Not tracked
Deployment lifecycle position
Source-backed financial history
Capital and commercial trajectory
Funding, valuation, revenue, and debt are kept separate so unlike measurements are never presented as one trend.
Records
1
Tracked total
$150M
Coverage
partial
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Series A · $150M
Running tracked total: $150M
Every numbered chart marker maps to one source-linked funding announcement below.
Character.AI / Business Wire ↗ source for Series A $150M
Chronological activity
What changed
Launched studio-made c.ai series in July 2026 after adding playable books, model upgrades, memory, and visual creation features.
A structured event record is still being assembled for this company.
Recent coverage of Character.AI
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AMD · Aug 28
Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
TechCrunch · Jul 9
Character.ai Launches AI-Powered ‘Books’ Feature Letting Users Play Inside Classic Literature Like ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ ‘The Great Gatsby’
Variety · Apr 16
Product surface
Products and model families
Recent models
Character conversational models
Products
Character.AIImaginec.ai Booksc.ai series
Open weights
No
API access
No
Review cadence
Weekdays
Market position
Lifecycle and strategic signals
Research
Preview
Growth
Deployment
Deployment: Production & at scale
Focus
Consumer character agents, interactive stories, social creation, and multimodal entertainment
Signals
Consumer appsAvatarsMedia
Taxonomy
Vertical + Enterpriseagentscreative-tools
Competitive context
ReplikaMeta AISnap
Infrastructure & distribution
Where Character.AI sits in the AI stack
01
Model layer
1 tracked model family
02
Access layer
Application or managed product
03
Market layer
Media Models
Public product surface
Character.AIImaginec.ai Booksc.ai series
Stack signals
agentscreative-toolsConsumer appsAvatarsMedia
This section reflects publicly visible product and access signals. Undisclosed GPU, cloud, training, and data-center contracts are not inferred.
Evidence trail
Sources and corrections
Primary and public sources used to verify the structured company profile.
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