The Company

OTOY Inc. is the definitive cloud graphics company, pioneering technology that is redefining content creation and delivery for media and entertainment organizations around the world. OTOY’s Academy Award®-winning technology is used by leading visual effects studios, artists, animators, designers, architects, and engineers, providing unprecedented creative freedom, new levels of realism, and new economics in content creation and distribution powered by the cloud.

OTOY was founded in 2008 by Jules Urbach (Founder & CEO) and Malcolm Taylor (Co-Founder & CTO). Since then, the company has grown to over 60 employees across four offices with headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles, CA.

OTOY has some notable investors and advisers. Major investors include Autodesk and Yuri Milner. Advisers include Eric Schmidt of Google, Brendan Eich of Mozilla, Sam Palmisano of IBM and Ariel Emanuel of Endeavor.

“Six years ago, I predicted that 90% of computing would eventually reside in the web-based cloud. OTOY has created a remarkable technology which moves that last 10% – high-end graphics processing – to the cloud. This is a disruptive and important achievement. It marks the tipping point where the web replaces the PC as the dominant computing platform.”

advisory-imageDr. Eric Schmidt

Executive Chairman, Google Inc. & OTOY Advisory Board Member

About the Founder

Jules Urbach
Founder, CEO and Chairman

Jules sets the strategic direction and vision for the company, and is the chief architect of OTOY’s technology roadmap. Prior to OTOY, Jules created the web’s first 3D video game platform and licensed the software to Macromedia, Disney, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, Microsoft, Hasbro and AT&T. Hailed by technology writer George Gilder as “the most inventive software engineer he has ever met,” Jules has been featured in numerous publications including Forbes, CNN Money, and All Things Digital.

“This is Tony Stark stuff, coming at us super-fast.”

Brendan_EichBrendan Eich

Co-founder, Mozilla & OTOY Advisory Board Member

Latest OTOY News

OctaneStudio+ 2025 Launches with Greyscalegorilla Plus, up to €200 in Render Credits and more!

The OctaneStudio+ 2025 Black Friday bundle is back – just €15.99 / month (annual license only) – with a final chance to take advantage of the industry’s best deal ever: a full-year subscription to Greyscalegorilla Plus – AND – up to €200 in Render Network credits for cloud rendering with Octane, Redshift, C4D, Blender and new VFX generative neural workflows from Runway, Topaz, and others!

OTOY, in association with William Shatner and the Nimoy Estate, releases ‘765874 Unification,’ commemorating 30th anniversary of “Star Trek: Generations”

On the 30th anniversary of “Star Trek: Generations”, The Archive and William Shatner revisit Captain Kirk’s final appearance on screen in a new 8-minute video produced for The Archive app on Apple Vision Pro: “765874: Unification”, launched in tandem with new interactive sets and documentary interviews and behind the scenes content celebrating the legacy of the 1994 film.

OTOY Presents “2001: Creating Kubrick’s Space Odyssey” Documentary

Expanding a multi-decade archival endeavor to create historically accurate virtual recreations of the milestone cultural works, OTOY releases new documentary and concept videos bringing audiences into the universe of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to explore the film’s singular impact on visual effects and modern culture.

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