our mission · 01
We manufacture the data the next generation of AI — generative and embodied — will be built on. Captured from the physical world, multiplied by the ARRAY engine, and delivered free of the legal debt that comes with scraping.
how we operate · 02
Three principles.
01
Show, don’t assert
We earn trust by exposing the product — the schema, the metadata, the specs. Confidence is demonstrated, never claimed.
02
Provenance is a feature
Every frame we ship can be traced to its synthetic origin. Clean data is not a compliance checkbox; it is the product.
03
Instrument-grade rigor
We build like the precision-hardware company we are. Tolerances are tight, signal is real, decoration is earned.
the team · 03
CG, ML, and hardware under one roof.
A deliberately cross-disciplinary team — because manufacturing clean training data is a capture-hardware problem, a creative problem and a machine-learning problem at once.
Tanguy Bodivit
CEO
Apple
Decades in CG and a background in Industrial Design. Tanguy now shapes Apple’s visuals as a Senior LookDev and Lighting Artist.
Paul Rae
Founder · CFO
Barclays
3x Founder & CEO, 2x Adviser. Operating leadership across strategy, innovation and execution.
Vinnie Vivance
CTO
Futureverse
Creative technologist and senior Unity developer — combining AI, Web3, mixed reality and game logic into interactive experiences.
Eugene Holovanchuk
Visual Systems Director
SpaceX · Adidas · Adobe
Owns the visual language end to end: direction, pipelines and standards across every output. Work spans CGI, brand campaigns and AI filmmaking for Apple, Adobe, Adidas and PlayStation.
Anton van der Merwe
Co-Founder · CPO
Jaunt · Uber · Man Utd
Award-winning Creative Director & AI Gen Director with 15+ years at the intersection of creativity, technology and production for the world’s most recognised brands.
Nicolas Fournier
Chief Research Officer
Soul Machines · Insite AI
A decade-plus in AI and ML — architecting full-stack systems, leading IP strategy and translating frontier research into scalable, commercially impactful products.
Nixi Chen
Senior Graphics Engineer
Hedera · Foresight Spatial Labs
Deep passion for mathematics, AI and the Rust ecosystem. Architect of our physics simulation engine, advancing real-time animation and intelligent visual systems.
Dr Tharindu Athauda
Chief Hardware Development
Clim8 · MAS
An MIT PhD with 14 years in wearable hardware, e-textiles and IoT. An expert in sensor systems and advanced manufacturing, from research to global commercial deployment.
the parent company · 04
ARRAY is a 23 Bulbs company.
23 Bulbs builds deep-tech infrastructure for the AI era — the unglamorous, foundational layers everything else depends on. ARRAY is its answer to the data-supply crisis: a vertically-integrated pipeline, from on-body capture suits and a global operator network to the ARRAY multiplication engine and API delivery.
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Bulbs
Bulbs
request access · 05
Request a data sample.
Tell us about your pipeline and what you train on. We’ll send a sample dataset and the schema docs.
sales & samples
paul@23bulbs.com
engineering & api
tanguy@23bulbs.com
press & partnerships
anton@23bulbs.com
headquarters
23 Bulbs, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
status
● engine online · generating