Tryll Raises $600K in Pre-seed Round led by Early Game Ventures

The new funding will help Tryll improve its technology, continue product development, and grow its sales and marketing efforts as it prepares for a wider market launch.

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Tryll, a startup developing an AI engine for video games, has raised $600,000 in a pre-seed funding round from Early Game Ventures. The investment gives the company a valuation of $6 million.

The company will use the new funding to continue improving its product and expand its sales and marketing efforts before a wider public launch.

At the same time, Tryll has launched the closed alpha version of Tryll Engine, a platform that lets game developers run AI models directly on players’ devices instead of relying on cloud servers. This can help reduce costs and improve performance.

The engine supports features such as AI-powered conversations, speech recognition, and voice interactions. With plugins for Unity 6 and Unreal Engine 5, developers can easily add intelligent characters and voice-based experiences to their games while using the player’s own hardware.

Commenting on the announcement, Aleksandr Glotov, CEO and co-founder of Tryll, said, "One of the company’s goals is to reduce the technical complexity of implementing AI in games, allowing developers to focus on creating gameplay experiences rather than managing AI infrastructure:

"The catch is that the AI behind all this is hard to build and run, and that's exactly what we take care of at Tryll Engine. We handle everything on the AI side so developers can use it as creative material and stay focused on what only they can do - designing mechanics, inventing genres, working in prompts and systems instead of infrastructure."

The company plans to keep improving and expanding its platform as it prepares for a wider public launch later this year.

It also aims to make the platform available to more game developers who want to create new AI-powered gaming experiences.