Alias Technologies is a company that is officially out of stealth mode with the launch of BeFake. This AI-driven zero-pressure social media app gives users the power of AI to creatively transform everyday moments with their friends. In just a few weeks since its launch, BeFake is already exploding in popularity and ranking in the App Store’s Top Free charts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
BeFake offers an alternative to existing social media platforms in allowing users to give their photos an ‘AI lift.’ And with BeFake, users can level up their photos with style prompts, transport themselves to curated locations, or explore their creativity with custom text prompts.
Alias also announced that it raised a $3 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures, and joined by Next Coast Ventures, Maveron, Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, WS Investments, and others. BeFake is spreading across high schools and college campuses through BeFake’s campus ambassador program.
Co-founder and CEO Kristen Garcia Dumont was the first female CEO of a major gaming company and one of only two women CEOs among Pitchbook’s 30 most valuable private companies. And Garcia Dumont led the development and launch of two of the most profitable mobile social games globally, grossing over $1 billion. And co-founder and COO Tracy Lane is the former COO of MZ where she led community, moderation, compliance, and platform partnerships.
KEY QUOTES:
“BeFake introduces AI to people in a fun and simple way. It’s the antidote to overly curated social media. Anyone, from anywhere, can now have fun with social media, and the focus is rightfully on creativity and creative expression rather than real-world appearance. Turns out, being fake is incredibly liberating.”
“With BeFake growing so quickly, we are lucky to have the problem of needing to find more powerful servers to make sure our users have a seamless and fast experience in the app, so another fundraiser is definitely in sight.”
— Kristen Garcia Dumont, co-founder and CEO of BeFake
“We have had such an incredibly positive response to our launch and are collaborating with students and business clubs at premier universities. That is our ideal demographic, and their excitement about BeFake makes them truly the best evangelists for the app.”
— Co-founder and COO Tracy Lane
