Assethub

AssetHub Inc. develops an AI-based 3D modeling and production platform for game creation. Users supply a concept image or design specification, and AI agents split it into named parts (for example body, hair, jacket, boots, armor), generate a mesh for each part, and assemble them into a modular character whose individual components can be replaced, regenerated and reused after assembly. The platform covers adjacent production steps including AI texture generation, auto-rigging, AI retopology and UV unwrapping, and exposes multiple third-party image-to-3D models (Tripo, Rodin, Meshy, Hunyuan, Hitem3D) within the same workflow. Published workflows are oriented to standard DCC pipelines, with named presets for Blender and Maya, and users describe exporting assembled assets in formats such as GLB for use in external engines.

Alongside the self-serve tool, the company sells 3D production outsourcing (BPO) and custom AI agent development, in which its art team encodes a studio's artist feedback, corrections and approval criteria into a reusable workflow and integrates it into the customer's existing pipeline. The company positions this hybrid of generative AI and manual creator work as a route to faster prototyping and mass production of content, citing speed improvements of up to 100x versus traditional manual asset creation. A longer-term stated aim is to extend the asset-automation technology into low-cost, AI-agent-driven game development and infrastructure for IP creation.

The product is offered in early access. AssetHub was founded in 2023 and is headquartered in San Francisco with an additional base in Tokyo, operating as a bilingual Japan-US company with a fully remote policy and visa sponsorship for hires.

Founding story

Takuya Goto co-founded Gaudiy in 2018, where he led product development and the introduction of new technology at entertainment companies, stepping down from the board at the company's Series B in 2022. In 2023 he relocated alone to the United States, where he had little prior experience living, and founded AssetHub, building the team, acquiring and validating users, and raising the first round entirely from a US base. AssetHub Inc. was established on 2 March 2023.

Business model

AssetHub combines a self-serve subscription software product with services. Software access is sold on credit-based plans, while enterprise customers and IP holders can buy custom credit volumes, advanced security and access controls, production support from the company's AI artists and custom agents built for their IP. A separate "AssetHub Studio" (forward-deployed engineer style) offering delivers 3D asset production and custom agent development integrated into the customer's pipeline, i.e. 3D production outsourcing plus pipeline integration.

Credit-based, pay-per-generation subscriptions billed monthly or yearly: a Free tier (4,200 credits/year, evaluation only), Pro at $192/year or $16/month (9,600 credits/year), Max at $576/year or $48/month (36,000 credits/year) and Studio at $960/year or $80/month (66,000 credits/year); yearly billing is 20% cheaper. Extra credit packs are sold at $12 for 400 credits up to $1,250 for 50,000 credits and expire one year after purchase. One image-to-3D generation consumes 25-140 credits (from roughly $0.50 on a yearly plan); other operations include texture generation (from 60 credits), auto-rigging (50), retopology (25-75) and UV unwrapping (15). Commercial use of generated assets is included on all paid plans. Enterprise and AssetHub Studio engagements are custom-priced.

Traction

As of the pre-seed announcement the company was conducting product validation studies with several game studios in Japan and overseas. The product is in early access with a free tier and published paid plans; users report incorporating it into production pipelines, including going from image to rigged characters with armor sets in hours rather than days or weeks, and exporting assembled assets to Blender and Babylon.js workflows. The Techstars job board lists the company at 1-10 employees and seed stage.

Latest developments

In August 2025 AssetHub reported a $2 million seed round from Archetype Ventures, Techstars and angel investors, with proceeds earmarked for its AI-powered 3D production tools, low-cost AI game creation and infrastructure for global IP development. The product is in early access, with published credit-based pricing tiers, an Enterprise plan and an AssetHub Studio service combining asset production with custom agent development, plus workflow presets for Blender and Maya pipelines.