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Kopia

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Active
artificial-intelligence
generative-ai
consumer
e-commerce
fashion
San Francisco
 
http://www.trykopia.com

Powering personalized ecommerce experiences using AI

Kopia is powering a personalized online shopping experience that makes you the main character. Imagine the next time you shop for clothing online, you: 1. See images of yourself in different items in a realistic and accurate way 2. Know exactly what size to get Brands and consumers are desperate for a more personalized and interactive online shopping experience. With the technological breakthrough in generative AI, this is finally possible, and we’re the first to take advantage of it.

Kopia
Founded:2023
Team Size:2
Location:San Francisco
Group Partner:Gustaf Alstromer
  

Active Founders

Calvin Chen

Calvin previously founded two startups in ecommerce & apparel software. He built a software startup in ecommerce that bootstrapped to $1.5M ARR and was acquired for $9M while in high school, and also a Rent The Runway for men that had 3,000 MAU’s and $240K in ARR.

Calvin Chen
Calvin Chen
Kopia
  

Company Launches

👕 Kopia - Virtually try on clothing with AI

TL;DR For apparel brands, our simple integration into any e-commerce platform allows your customers to visualize themselves in your items and get a size recommendation by clicking one button.


This helps your brand increase conversion and decrease returns.

We’re Calvin and Aadi and we’re building Kopia. We’re on a mission to build a virtual try-on experience that consumers actually love using and change the way people shop and discover products online.

Here’s an example of our experience on Gucci’s website:

Here’s an example of what we can do for brands:

❌ The Problem

For consumers, the biggest problems are that:

  • Visualizing yourself in different items as you’re shopping online is difficult (especially if you look nothing like the models)
  • Understanding the sizing and fitting of items online is impossible and returns are a hassle.

For brands, these problems lead to:

  • Low conversion (Average conversion rates are 0.5-1.5%)
  • High return rates (more than 60% of returns are quoted as having a different fit than thought)
  • In other words, lower sales and lower profitability than what could be the standard.

✨ The Solution

Kopia’s AI virtual try-on experience helps customers visualize themselves in clothing and get a size recommendation while they shop online.

⚙️ Here’s how it works:

  1. Users answer a few questions about their body type
  2. Users input a single selfie or headshot
  3. Thats it! Now you can seamlessly use Kopia across any brand we work with without ever having to onboard again.

The Founders

We are two college dropouts who have previous experience in e-commerce and generative AI.

Calvin previously founded an e-commerce software startup he bootstrapped to $1.5M in ARR and was acquired for $9M while in high school. While at USC, he built a luxury apparel rental platform that grew to $240K in ARR before shutting down.

Aadi did NLP research for Verizon in high school, then built multiple gen AI products as side projects and for a YC-backed startup while studying CS at Stanford. At Kopia, he’s built the leading diffusion model for virtual try-on in 3 months.

Opportunity To Change Online Shopping

With diffusion technology, virtual try-on is inevitable and will be a platform shift for the $250B US e-commerce apparel market.

In just 3 months, we’ve built the leading diffusion model for virtual try on and thousands of people are using it.

Our vision is that virtual try-on will completely change the user experience of shopping online and open a gateway for a new kind of online shopping. Imagine a shopping platform where you are the main character and you browse through images of you wearing different items to discover what truly looks great on you.

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