Reface grabs $5.5M seed led by A16z to stoke its viral face-swap video app – TechCrunch

Buzzy face-swap video app Reface, which lends users celebrity'superpowers' by turning their selfies into "eerily realistic" famous video clips at the tap of a button, has caught the attention of Andreessen Horowitz. The Silicon Valley venture firm leads a $5.5 million seed round in the deep tech entertainment startup, announced today. Reface tells us its apps (iOS and Android) have been downloaded some 70 million times since it launched in January 2020 -- up from 20M when we spoke to one of its (seven) co-founders back in August. It's also attained'top five' leading app status in around 100 countries, the US included -- as well as bagging a'top app' award in the annual Google Play best of. That kind of viral growth clip has been turning heads all over the place.