Company Intelligence Profile
Ikonz Studios Private Limited
Hyderabad-based generative-AI startup building hyper-realistic AI avatars and holographic experiences, best known for its exclusive Amitabh Bachchan AI hologram deployed for IDFC FIRST Bank branches.
Last updated 17 August 2026
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Company Identity
Confirmed| Registered name | Ikonz Studios Private Limited |
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| CIN | U72900TG2021PTC152567 |
| PAN | AAGCI1955B |
| Status | Active |
| Listing | Not listed (unlisted private limited company) |
| Incorporated | 25 June 2021 |
| ROC | RoC Hyderabad (Telangana) |
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| Authorized capital | INR 1,00,000 (Rs 1 lakh) — confirmed |
| Paid-up capital | INR 10,000 — confirmed |
Business Overview
Confirmed- Ikonz Studios is a Hyderabad-headquartered generative-AI startup building hyper-realistic AI-powered digital avatars, holographic experiences and "Holographic Extended Reality (HXR)" / interactive agentic systems
- Its flagship, widely reported deployment is an exclusive AI interactive hologram of Amitabh Bachchan (capturing his voice, expressions and mannerisms), launched Dec 2024 for IDFC FIRST Bank at its Juhu (Mumbai) branch and since expanded to more branch cities for customer engagement/banking-product guidance
- The company licenses proprietary AI-avatar/IP technology to brands and is expanding into entertainment, healthcare, education and retail
- Founder/CEO: Abinav Varma Kalidindi
- As of the Feb 2025 funding news, headcount was ~34, targeted to scale to ~100 (80% India, 20% US)
Directors
Confirmed| Name | DIN | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalidindi Abinav Varma | 06624430 | Director | 25 Jun 2021 |
| Venkata Ramaraju Kalidindi | 01819473 | Director | 25 Jun 2021 |
Financials
Partial / conflicting- FY2025 (year ended 31 Mar 2025) revenue: ₹12.64 crore, reported as +222% YoY. Tofler separately shows only a revenue band ("INR 1 cr – 100 cr") for FY ending 31 Mar 2023 — consistent with, but not independently confirming, the Falconebiz figure
- EBITDA, PAT, net worth and total borrowings: not obtained (paywalled on all accessed sources)
- Standalone vs consolidated: not specified in any source — presumed standalone (single-entity filing) but unconfirmed
- Auditor: S R G A & Co.. Employees: reported as near-zero in one Falconebiz data point (Feb 2025) which conflicts with the ~34-person headcount reported in funding-round press coverage the same month — likely a stale/placeholder MCA filing field vs. actual operating headcount; flagging as a source conflict rather than resolving it
Funding
Confirmed- Pre-Series A / strategic funding round of $5 million (~Rs 43.44 crore) closed around Feb 2025, at a reported $80 million valuation
- Lead investor: Marc Jordan
- Co-investors: Madhusudan Kela, Ramana Thummu (Expedia CTO), Akash Bhanshali (Enam Group Principal Owner)
- Use of funds: acquiring/developing digital IP in India and global markets, scaling AI-content leadership, and team expansion from ~34 to ~100 employees
- Company guidance: targeting ~3x revenue growth in the current year and another funding round within ~4 months of the Feb 2025 raise
- No earlier funding round (seed, etc.) was found in any accessed source — prior funding history: not obtained
Charges / Borrowings
Partial / conflicting- Tofler states "the company has no registered charges" while Falconebiz/TheCompanyCheck (later-dated data) show an open charge of ₹1.4 crore registered on 22 Oct 2025, lender listed only as "Others" (unspecified institution) — likely because Tofler's snapshot predates the Oct 2025 charge filing
- Treat the ₹1.4 crore charge as the more current data point, but lender identity is not obtained
Legal / Litigation
ConfirmedNo matching results found on Indian Kanoon for "Ikonz Studios Private Limited" — no publicly indexed litigation/case as of the search date.
Competitors
Partial / conflicting- Named peers in the AI-avatar/generative-AI holographic-experience and digital-human space: 1) Soul Machines (US) — mid-scale, well-funded digital-human/avatar platform
- 2) Synthesia (UK) — large-scale, unicorn-status AI video/avatar generation
- 3) D-ID (Israel) — mid-scale, AI avatar/video API provider
- 4) Uneeq (NZ/US) — mid-scale digital human platform
- 5) Hour One (Israel) — mid-scale AI video-avatar generation
- 6) Rephrase.ai (India, now part of Aisera) — India-based comparable, generative AI avatar/dubbing for enterprise; closest India-market peer given similar enterprise/brand-avatar focus
- These are inferred from Ikonz's stated business category (AI digital avatars/holographic experiences) rather than confirmed via a single source naming all six as direct competitors — treat as a partial/heuristic competitor set
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