Global Brain Corporation (GB) has made a follow-on investment in Mad Street Den Inc (Mad Street Den, CEO: Ashwini Asokan), a California- and India- based company through its KDDI Open Innovation Fund II (KOIF). Mad Street Den provides “Vue.ai” which is a one-stop AI and image recognition platform for apparel retailers. Vue.ai offers such products as data classification and catalog data management. Its marquee product is a cutting-edge human model generator which is an AI-based product generating garment-to-model images, predicting how the garment fits. Vue.ai's algorithms also analyze the extracted catalog data with user behavior and help the retailers' marketing/product/cataloging teams to drive conversions and to increase revenues, as well as to automate their processes and reduce costs. Together with KDDI, GB will continue to support the company in building alliances and partnership to expand their business, especially in the Japanese and Asian market. ## About Mad Street Den

Company: Name Mad Street Den Inc

Founded: August 2013

Location: California, United States　Chennai, India

Representatives / Founders: Ashwini Asokan, CEO & Anand Chandrasekaran, CTO

URL: https://www.madstreetden.com/

## About KOIF

Name: KDDI Open Innovation Fund II

General Partner: Global Brain Corporation

Fund Size: 5 Billion JPY

## About Global Brain

Founded: January 1998

Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Representative: Yasuhiko Yurimoto, President & CEO

Business: Venture Capital

Global Brain, a general partner of KDDI Open Innovation Fund II (KOIF), announces its follow-on investment in Mad Street Den, an innovative AI x RetailTech startup