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Piston Group

Piston Group is a private investment platform founded by industry magnate and NBA champion Vinnie Johnson, to build value by creating, operating and growing world-class manufacturing and design companies. With investments beginning in 1996 and a strong entrepreneurial culture, today’s platform has grown to include Piston Automotive, Irvin Products, and Detroit Thermal Systems. Piston Group's world-class manufacturing facilities deliver operational excellence through employee empowerment. Our team of more than 11,500 skilled engineering and manufacturing specialists proudly builds customer value every day. We create solutions and breakthroughs. But at the end of the day, what we really create is value. And that has become the purpose that our entire Piston Group family lives and breathes every day — to not just build, but to build value.

Lumesa

Lumesa is an AI visual infrastructure platform that helps ecommerce brands generate, personalize, test, and deploy product visuals built to improve conversion, merchandising, and scale. We train on your brand's own DNA before a single image is produced, so the output looks like you took the shoot yourself. AI Fashion Models: Custom AI models built to your exact specs, age, body type, skin tone, styling, and more, so your catalog reflects who actually shops with you. Inclusive by design, no agency required. Brand-trained Visuals: On-model, product-only, and lifestyle imagery generated from your brand's own rules, styling standards, pose library, and photography guidelines, trained in before a single image goes out. Virtual Try-On: Shoppers see themselves in your products before they buy. Cast into a look, styled head to toe from your live catalog, with motion and fabric behavior true to your brand, then carried into your storefront, ads, and email. Content Multiplication: One product becomes every asset you need, PDP, social, email, and ads, without a separate shoot for each channel. Localized Visuals: The same product, adapted for different markets and audiences, so one catalog speaks to every region you sell into. Product-only Images: Clean, catalog-ready shots for every SKU, at the volume your catalog demands, without waiting on a studio calendar. Visual Analytics: We track which creative attributes drive conversion, styling, pose, model, background, and use that signal to improve every future output. Proof: a $1B+ multi-brand apparel holding company doubled production volume in six months with no samples and no shoots. A global luxury accessories holding company hit a 3% conversion lift, first in luxury retail at this scale. A heritage fashion brand's own marketing team didn't believe the imagery was AI. Website: lumesa.ai Contact: hi@lumesa.ai Founded: 2021 · New York