KPMG Canada buys digital twin specialist LlamaZoo Interactive

KPMG Canada has acquired the assets and technologies of LlamaZoo Interactive, a Victoria, BC-based software firm specializing in enterprise application of digital twins.

Founded in 2014 by video game industry veterans Charles Lavigne and Kevin Oke, LlamaZoo provides a proprietary platform for enterprise clients to experience complex data sets via 2D and 3D digital twins.

Digital twins accurately reflect physical objects and simulate real-world scenarios to support robust scenario planning and enhanced decision-making.

LlamaZoo’s industry-specific solutions include MineLife VR, a 3D virtual reality platform for the digital twinning of a mine from exploration to reclamation.

“Amid ongoing economic uncertainty and global trade disruptions, scenario planning is more critical than ever for Canadian organizations. Digital twin technology can help create strategies for all types of scenarios by using data to assess various outcomes and support better, faster and more informed decisions, which ultimately leads to higher productivity and lower costs,” said Matt Grant, director of digital twins and spatial computing at KPMG Canada.

Grant, who joined KPMG last year after spending several years in Unity’s digital twin and industry practice, will lead KPMG’s newly enhanced digital twin centre of excellence. The centre will support the development and deployment of digital twin and spatial business intelligence systems for clients across Canada.

LlamaZoo’s team of seven people, including co-founders Lavigne and Oke, will join KPMG’s Ignition hub for innovation and advanced technologies and will operate out of the firm’s Victoria office.

Marc Low, director of innovation and emerging technology at KPMG Ignition Vancouver, said that the acquisition, together with KPMG‘s recently announced Agentic AI Engine, is a major step in advancing intelligent business systems.

“Digital twins are becoming the data and digital platforms for agentic AI to develop and thrive – environments where real-world data, spatial intelligence and AI combine to train, test and deploy systems with increasing autonomy,” Low said. “By integrating LlamaZOO’s platform into KPMG in Canada’s Agentic AI Engine, we are helping Canadian and global organizations build operational resilience and unlock new opportunities in scenario planning, simulation and decision intelligence.”