Giant Otter Technologies, Inc.
3D web and mobile role-playing simulations with AI-powered virtual characters that conduct nuanced conversations to teach social skills
- Sector
- Software
- Headquarters
- SOMERVILLE, MA
- Founded
- 2013
- Latest Form D
- $220K, Sep 2016
- Total capital
- $1.4M
- Federal grants
- $1.2M
- 1 award · 2015
- Rank in peer group#42 of 53
- Private capital raised
- $220K
- 1 Form D · last Sep 2016
- 121 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$220K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase II · SBIR Phase II: A virtual role-playing simulation for social emotional learning using artificially intelligent characters and crowdsourcing$1.2M
Node area is scaled to amount. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.
Federal first
19months
from Giant Otter Technologies, Inc.’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Feb 2015
- NSF · $1.2M
- First Form D · Sep 2016
- $220K · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 1 award
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Standing among 53 peers
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- Federal grantsBelow median
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Founders and team
From SEC Form D filings- Daniel TomaschkoExecutive OfficerNamed in SEC Form D filings
- Jeffrey OrkinExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
What it has protected
No granted patents are on record.
USPTO usually publishes applications 18 months after filing, so recent applications may not be visible yet. Patents assigned under a different entity name won’t match.
Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
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