He is a Nigerian-American entrepreneur, a former big-tech operator, a musician, a car collector, and the co-founder and CEO of SPREEAI, the fashion technology company building photorealistic virtual try-on, sizing intelligence, and personalization for retailers. Inc. reported that SPREEAI reached a $1.5 billion valuation in 2025 after raising nearly $100 million, with partners including Sergio Hudson and Kai Collective.
That is the business story. Imah’s more interesting story is what sits underneath it: the discipline, the taste, the privacy, and the part of him that still sounds more like a band kid from Dallas than a founder being photographed on fashion’s biggest carpet.
Ask Imah for the most unexpected thing about himself and he does not reach for the obvious answer. Not the cars. Not the red carpets. Not the company valuation.
“I play French horn,” he says. “Like, seriously, French horn, trumpet, and piano.”
He knows the answer surprises people. From the outside, Imah’s life reads as fashion photos, sports cars, boardrooms, and technology. But music, he says, is where the noise drops away. Piano still gives him a place to slow down. French horn and trumpet connect him to a younger version of himself, one that was more focused on rehearsal than visibility.
“Music has always been the other side of my brain,” he says. “Tech and fashion get all the press, but music is where I actually go quiet and think.”
It makes sense once he explains it. SPREEAI, at its core, is about precision and feeling at the same time. The company’s product is built to let shoppers see garments on themselves, not on a model who may look nothing like them. Its own product page describes the platform as a way to render a customer’s face, body, and proportions in seconds, without an avatar or scan. That is engineering. But the emotional promise is much more familiar: a person wants to know if something feels like them before they buy it.
