# D-ID

> D-ID is an enterprise AI-video company that turns text, audio, images and knowledge bases into scripted avatar videos and real-time visual agents. Founded as face-recognition privacy software, it repurposed its facial synthesis expertise into a self-service studio, APIs, multilingual video localization and interactive digital humans for customer support, training, marketing and sales.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** New York City, United States
- **Founders:** Gil Perry (Co-Founder and CEO), Sella Blondheim (Co-Founder and COO), Eliran Kuta (Co-Founder and CTO)
- **Team size:** Approximately 160 employees
- **Products:** Creative Reality Studio, D-ID API and Client SDK, Visual Agents, Video Campaigns, Video Translate
- **Notable:** Graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch., Powered MyHeritage's viral Deep Nostalgia product, which animated nearly 100 million faces in its first eight months., Launched a self-service AI-video studio in 2022 after initially distributing mainly through APIs and partners.

## Products & services

- **Creative Reality Studio** — A self-service web studio for creating presenter-led avatar videos from scripts, audio, photos and custom avatars.
- **D-ID API and Client SDK** — Developer tools for generating videos and embedding real-time streaming avatars or visual agents inside products.
- **Visual Agents** — Knowledge-grounded, LLM-powered digital humans that conduct live voice or text conversations and can be embedded in sites and apps.
- **Video Campaigns** — Personalized marketing videos streamed on demand, so credits are consumed when recipients click rather than for every pre-rendered variation.
- **Video Translate** — Automated video localization that translates speech, clones the speaker's voice and adjusts lip movement across multiple languages.
- **V4 Expressive Avatars** — Higher-fidelity avatars with selectable sentiments, improved lip sync and sub-500ms claimed conversational latency for real-time use.
- **Agentic Videos** — Interactive videos whose on-screen visual agent can answer contextual questions during or after playback.
- **simpleshow** — An AI-assisted explainer-video platform added through D-ID's 2025 acquisition to broaden enterprise storytelling and training workflows.

## Achievements

- Graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch.
- Powered MyHeritage's viral Deep Nostalgia product, which animated nearly 100 million faces in its first eight months.
- Launched a self-service AI-video studio in 2022 after initially distributing mainly through APIs and partners.
- Reached 150 million generated videos by July 2023 and now reports more than 200 million.
- Built a developer community of more than 280,000, according to the company.
- D-ID Visual Agents earned recognition as a CES 2024 Innovation Awards honoree.
- Acquired and completed the combination with explainer-video company simpleshow in 2025, creating a business serving 1,500-plus large enterprises.
- Microsoft reported more than 150,000 visual agents created, with 1.8 million messages and 340,000 interaction minutes by May 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2024-08** — Launched Video Translate for multilingual voice cloning and lip-synced localization.
- **2025-05** — Microsoft published a customer story detailing D-ID's migration to Azure, marketplace distribution and visual-agent usage metrics.
- **2025-09** — Announced the acquisition of simpleshow for an undisclosed price; the companies completed the combination later in 2025.
- **2026-03** — Introduced V4 Expressive Visual Agents for low-latency, sentiment-aware live conversations.
- **2026-05** — Launched Agentic Videos, letting viewers question a visual agent during and after a video.

## Links

- Website: https://www.d-id.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deidentification
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/D_ID_
- GitHub: https://github.com/de-id
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@d-id
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/d_id.ai/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deidentification/

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Last updated: 2026-08-20