The AI-first video content platform that turns webinars and events into clips, blogs, and pipeline - built by three Harvard classmates during the pandemic, and acquired by events giant Cvent in 2025.
Goldcast's primary wordmark. The company launched as a digital-events startup and grew into an AI video business before its acquisition by Cvent.
Goldcast started with a problem most marketers quietly hate. Events swallow roughly a third of a B2B marketing budget, yet the recording usually ends up on a hard drive and dies there. The company's founding bet was simple: treat the event not as the finished product, but as raw material for a whole stream of video content.
Today Goldcast is an AI-first video content platform for B2B go-to-market teams. Marketers use it to host webinars and virtual events, then feed those recordings into AI workflows that spit out clips, captions, blog posts, social posts, and follow-up emails - the assets that actually travel across a buyer's channels. The pitch is less "run a better Zoom call" and more "win mindshare before buyers ever enter the market."
Goldcast's product line moves in a circle: capture a live moment, then multiply it. Each piece hands work to the next so a single event keeps producing content long after the last attendee logs off.
A purpose-built platform for branded webinars, virtual events, and hybrid experiences, wired into CRM and marketing automation so engagement data flows into revenue workflows.
The signature feature. It automatically turns event and video recordings into clips, captions, blogs, and social posts - moving teams from a single moment to publishable assets in minutes.
A browser-based studio for producing podcasts, customer stories, and other original video content without a production crew.
AI agent workflows that create, optimize, and distribute video across channels, including AI search and video SEO - the reframing that turned Goldcast into an "AI-first" company.
Goldcast sells to B2B marketing and demand-generation teams at enterprises and fast-growing software companies. Its customer roster has included Salesforce, Zscaler, Bloomreach, BambooHR, Zuora, and Lattice - teams that run frequent events and are judged on pipeline, not attendance.
The value proposition is time. Instead of a producer manually clipping a webinar for a week, Content Lab does it in minutes, and the marketer ships more, faster.
Figures self-reported by Goldcast; treat as approximate.
The webinar market is crowded - ON24, Zoom Events, RingCentral Events, Airmeet, Bizzabo, BigMarker, and Hopin all fight for the same buyers. Most of them optimize for the live event itself. Goldcast's wedge was the part everyone else treated as an afterthought: what happens to the recording afterward.
That focus also explains the company's evolution. It began as a Zoom alternative for events and was ultimately acquired as an AI video company - the market moved toward content, and Goldcast moved with it.
Goldcast was conceived at Harvard Business School in 2020, as the world went remote overnight and every marketer suddenly had to run digital events. Three classmates decided to build the tooling for it.
Holds a B.Tech and M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Harvard. Previously a senior product manager at InMobi, where he built the company's first self-service SaaS marketing platform.
Leads operations and go-to-market, helping scale Goldcast from a pandemic-era idea to 300+ enterprise customers.
Heads engineering and the AI platform behind Content Lab and Goldcast Agents.
Palash Soni, Kishore Kothandaraman, and Aashish Srinivas launch Goldcast as a digital-events platform for B2B marketers.
Led by Unusual Ventures, with HubSpot Ventures, Afore Capital, and Underscore VC participating.
WestBridge Capital leads, with Unusual Ventures, to expand the platform and team.
Goldcast repositions from events to an AI-first video content platform.
Cvent buys Goldcast in December to unite its event system-of-record with Goldcast's AI video capabilities.
Acquired by Cvent (Dec 2025) - a system of record for events serving ~30,000 customers and most of the Fortune 100. Terms were not disclosed.
Interviews with CEO Palash Soni and product walkthroughs live across Goldcast's public channels. Explore the platform and the founder story below.
Ranked on Deloitte's 2025 Technology Fast 500 for North America.
Named to the Boston Business Journal Fast 50 (2025).
Certified for 2025-26.
Named an Essential App for Marketers (2025).
Goldcast is an AI-first B2B video content platform. Teams host webinars and virtual events, then automatically repurpose the recordings into clips, blogs, social posts, and on-demand video that drive pipeline.
It was founded in 2020 by Harvard Business School classmates Palash Soni (CEO), Kishore Kothandaraman (COO), and Aashish Srinivas (CTO).
About $40M total - a $10M seed round led by Unusual Ventures and a $28M Series A led by WestBridge Capital.
Yes. Cvent acquired Goldcast in December 2025 to expand its AI-powered event marketing and event-to-video capabilities. Terms were not disclosed.
It competes with webinar and virtual-event platforms such as ON24, Zoom Events, RingCentral Events, Airmeet, Bizzabo, and BigMarker.
Profile compiled from public sources including goldcast.io, Cvent, PR Newswire, Crunchbase, and press coverage. Financial and performance figures are company-reported and approximate. Last reviewed July 2026.