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Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and founded in 2018, Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies, doing business as MARZ, is a technology and visual effects (VFX) startup, intended to deliver feature-film quality VFX on TV timelines. The company was co-founded by Matt Panousis, Lon Molnar, and Jonathan Bronfman. In December 2021, the company raised CAD 6. 5 million in series A funding led by new investor Round13 Capital, with participation from other new investors.

As of 2021, the company employs 194 employees who work remotely from various cities including Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, Madrid, Los Angeles, Melbourne, London, Moscow, Mumbai, and Mexico City. MARZ creates and provides feature-film quality visual effects (VFX) for TV films and shows. The company’s VFX expertise covers various areas such as cloning, body augmentation, crowd duplication, Digi doubles, aging and de-aging, and digital costumes, etc among many others. MARZ has created and published a beta version of their proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI) for VFX technology solution, which leverages the machine learning (ML) capabilities to overcome the limitations of traditional VFX projects.

As of 2021, the business had executed approximately 88 visual effects projects for its portfolio of clients including Marvel, Disney, AMC, Peacock, and Apple TV. The company plans to deploy the funds for further expansion of its VFX services business and to accelerate the research and development of its AI for VFX technology solutions. The firm also intends to expand its workforce to 300 employees, with more hiring planned in the areas of research, engineering, and product development.