Zubin Wadia

Zubin Wadia is a Los Angeles–based visual-effects and immersive-media technologist turned founder. He spent roughly a decade building high-end VFX and pipeline technology for major animated and live-action features, with credits including *The Ant Bully* (2006, Pipeline Technical Director), *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010), *Megamind* (2010), *Puss in Boots* (2011), *Rise of the Guardians* (2012), *Frozen* (2013), and *Moana* (2016). Public profiles also associate him with work touching *Zootopia*, *The Incredible Hulk*, and *Pirates of the Caribbean*, and describe him as having contributed to films with multiple Academy Award recognitions. His studio background spans marquee VFX/animation houses including Rhythm & Hues, DreamWorks Animation, and Weta Digital.

Around 2017 he moved from studio VFX into founding immersive-tech startups. He co-founded and became CEO of iLiveVR (with Piya Wadia and Anmol Budharaja), a B2B virtual-reality platform for real estate, e-commerce, and design that produces immersive walkthroughs — 3D scans of homes and fully staged model-home walkthroughs generated from floor plans — to help developers and realtors sell property. iLiveVR was selected for the opening/2018 class of the Techstars Dubai Accelerator, a mentorship-driven program that funds each company (reported at roughly $120K–$220K including SAFE terms).

He subsequently founded and leads Xlab Digital, a Los Angeles XR/gaming studio staffed with talent from the VFX, animation, and games industries and building experiences across XR, PC, console, and mobile. Xlab's flagship IP is Iron Guard, a VR tower-defense title (an App Lab graduate) followed by the sequel Iron Guard: Salvation on Meta Quest, on which Zubin is credited as producer.

In parallel, Zubin has returned to production-technology leadership in the VFX/animation industry, serving as VP of Technology / Head of Production Technology at ReDefine (a global VFX and animation services company; credits include *The Legend of Hanuman* and studio/streaming work), with recent activity also referencing Netflix Series Animation production technology and innovation.

• Positioned as a seed-stage angel investor operating as an individual (rather than through an institutional fund).
• Natural focus areas track his operating expertise: immersive/XR technology (VR/AR), visual-effects and animation tooling, gaming, and 3D/spatial applications for real estate and design.
• As a repeat founder who came up through production pipelines at Rhythm & Hues, DreamWorks, and Weta and then built product startups (iLiveVR, Xlab Digital), he is likely most credible and value-additive to technical, media-adjacent founders building at the intersection of content, real-time 3D, and consumer/enterprise XR.
• *No first-person written investment thesis (blog, fund memo, or public quote) could be verified, so specific "what makes him say yes" criteria and check sizes are not documented here rather than invented.*