Taaniel Jakobs

Taaniel Jakobs

Co-founder & product lead at Zerply

Tallinn, Estonia

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Accelerating the new era of high-end digital content creation.
Work History
  • Founding Engineer

    Today

    September 2023 - Present
  • Co-founder, product lead

    Zerply

    May 2010 - Present
    Tallinn, Estonia

    Zerply is the professional VFX & Animation platform for artists in Film & TV, Games, Advertising and Mixed Reality. Today we have over 17,500 production-ready artists and 1,000 vetted studios on the platform.

    The Zerply platform is centered around high-end content creation. Our members have worked on all the major VFX and Animation heavy blockbusters, and last year alone over 2,200 Zerply artists worked on VES nominated projects.

    We have provided hands-on recruitment services to A52, Amazon Studios, Atomic Fiction, Bacon X, Brazen, Brud, Cantina Creative, Carbon, Cinesite, Crafty Apes, Digital Domain, EA DICE, Folks VFX, Giant Animation, Goodbye Kansas, Illumination, ILP, Jellyfish Pictures, Luma Pictures, Meta, Method Studios, Mikros Image, Netflix, Ntropic, Pixomondo, Proof, Psyop, Scholar, Skechers, Stargate Studios, Swiss, Taylor James, Troll VFX, Union, Universal, We Are Royale, Wicked Liquid... and the list goes on but you get the picture.

  • Advisor

    Project Rhizome

    May 2015 - February 2016
    Tallinn, Estonia
  • Accelerator

    500 Startups

    May 2011 - September 2011
    Mountain View, CA

    Part of the Summer 2011 Accelerator Class with Zerply.
    Batch #1

  • Founder

    PearlyGate OÜ

    September 2006 - May 2010
    Tallinn, Estonia

    A small web production company located in the capital of Estonia.