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Bezel
Bezel is a Y Combinator (W25) startup that generates studio-quality photos and videos of apparel on photorealistic AI human models. Fashion and e-commerce brands upload a clothing image, pick a preset model, and get shoot-ready stills and video in seconds - replacing shoots that cost thousands of dollars and take days. Founded in 2025 in New York by Kashyap Achar, the company positions itself as an on-demand content engine for brands that need constant creative variety for ad testing.
Knowlify
Knowlify is a Y Combinator (S25) startup building a text-to-explainer video engine that turns documents, PDFs, textbooks and plain text into narrated, animated videos in minutes. Founded by four University of Florida classmates, the company offers a self-serve platform for teams plus a managed studio for high-stakes productions, and has generated over 200,000 videos for organizations including Amazon, ByteDance, Flexport, Supabase and Zoho. In October 2025 Knowlify raised $3 million to make video the default medium for explaining complex information.
Pixley AI
Pixley AI is a Y Combinator (F25) startup that turns a child's drawing or photo into an animated cartoon character in seconds, then generates full personalized episodes around a lesson a parent picks. The goal is to convert passive kids' screen time into active, co-created, and educational play. Founded in 2025 by childhood friends Krish Iyengar and Pranit Agrawal, the company also builds Pixley Studios, an agentic tool that turns a single idea into a production-ready video.
Yarn (YC W24)
Yarn is an AI-native platform that lets go-to-market teams make agency-quality product, sales, and marketing videos in minutes instead of weeks. Founded during Y Combinator's Winter 2024 batch by Jasper Story and Nicole Atack, Yarn treats video like a document: you write a script, and its stack of AI tools handles voiceovers, screen recordings, part-synthetic talking heads, brand-styled overlays, and generative footage. The pitch is speed and cost - videos that would take an agency weeks and thousands of dollars, produced in-house in under 20 minutes.
YouArt
YouArt is a Y Combinator-backed (Spring 2026 / P26) platform that lets AI storytellers create original films and series with an AI video agent, raise money directly from early fans, and earn recurring revenue through subscriptions and private branded pages. Founders describe it as 'Patreon for AI Originals.' The company reported passing $120K in monthly revenue within five months of launch and roughly 145K monthly visitors, driven largely by organic demand from AI creators and studios.
Topview AI
Topview AI is a Singapore-based generative AI company that turns product links, images, and text into short-form marketing videos. Its AI Video Agent uses digital-human avatars, voice cloning, and automated editing so ecommerce brands, agencies, and creators can produce UGC-style ads and product videos without cameras, actors, or editors. Founded in 2022 by Jensen Wu and Albert Chen, Topview closed a $14M Series A led by Kamet Capital and, by early 2026, reported more than 5 million users generating over 500,000 videos a day.
Goldcast
Goldcast is an AI-first B2B video content platform that helps marketing teams host webinars and virtual events, then automatically turn those recordings into clips, blogs, social posts, and on-demand video that drive pipeline. Founded in 2020 by three Harvard Business School classmates during the pandemic shift to virtual events, the Boston-based company grew past $10M ARR serving 300+ B2B customers before being acquired by events giant Cvent in December 2025.
LiveControl
LiveControl is a Santa Monica-based company that turns any venue into a broadcast studio without an on-site crew. It combines proprietary PTZ camera hardware and an encoder with cloud software and a nationwide network of professional videographers who remotely pan, tilt, zoom, switch angles, and produce live events - for houses of worship, funeral homes, schools, theaters, conferences, and corporate clients. Founded in 2018 and backed by a $30M Series A led by Coatue, LiveControl produces tens of thousands of professionally streamed events each year at a fraction of the cost of hiring a traditional production team.
PlayPlay
PlayPlay is a Paris-based B2B SaaS company that lets communication and marketing teams turn ideas and text into professional, on-brand videos without editing skills. Its browser-based platform pairs drag-and-drop templates with AI tools - avatars, auto-subtitles, voice-over, translation and clipping - plus enterprise brand governance. Founded in 2017 by Thibaut Machet, Aurelien Dayres and Clement Moracin, PlayPlay is used by 3,000+ companies including IBM, L'Oreal and Booking.com, and has raised roughly $65.8M, led by a $55M Series B from Insight Partners in 2022.
TrueFan AI
TrueFan AI is an India-based generative-AI company that builds a B2B platform for producing hyper-personalized, studio-quality video at scale. From a single short recording it can generate localized videos in 175+ languages, letting enterprises turn one shoot into thousands of tailored marketing, sales and communication videos. Founded in 2020 as a celebrity fan-engagement app, it pivoted in 2024 into an enterprise video-generation business now used by 100+ companies across banking, insurance, healthcare, retail and media.
Thibaut Machet
Thibaut Machet is the CEO and co-founder of PlayPlay, a video creation platform that lets marketing, HR and communications teams turn text and raw clips into polished branded videos without editing skills. He started it in 2017 after six years running social media at Eurosport, grew it to roughly 240 employees across Paris, New York and Berlin, and raised a $55M Series B in 2022 led by Insight Partners. He now runs the company from New York, where he moved to build out the US business.
Tom Pachys
Tom Pachys is the co-founder and CEO of EX.CO, a Disney-backed video technology and monetization platform used by publishers including Hearst, CBSi, Time, Nasdaq, and VICE. He started building websites at 12, served in an elite Israeli intelligence-technology unit, was an early leader at SundaySky, and co-founded the machine-learning startup Whimado before co-founding Playbuzz in 2012, which he rebranded into EX.CO in 2019. He now leads roughly 160 people worldwide, betting that AI and supply-path optimization can rescue the economics of online video for the open web.
Layer
Layer is a San Francisco-based AI content creation platform built for game studios and entertainment brands. It plugs generative AI directly into existing production pipelines so artists can generate and refine style-consistent 2D, 3D, video and audio assets at scale while keeping creative control. Model-agnostic and artist-first, Layer lets teams train custom models on their own art and export into engines like Unity, Unreal and Godot. It is used by 300+ studios and 10,000+ artists, producers and growth teams, including Zynga, SciPlay, Tripledot and Huuuge Games.
LemonSlice
LemonSlice is a San Francisco AI research and product lab that turns a single photo into a real-time, talking video avatar - the visual face for voice agents and chatbots. Its Lemon Slice-2 model is a purpose-built, large-scale video diffusion transformer that generates every pixel from scratch to produce expressive, full-emotion talking characters (human or cartoon) that livestream at conversational speed. Founded in 2024 by three PhD-creators (formerly Infinity AI), the company raised a $10.5M seed led by Matrix Partners and Y Combinator to make all video interactive.
Maverick
Maverick is a San Francisco AI startup that generates personalized videos at scale for ecommerce brands. A merchant records one short base video, and Maverick's generative AI clones the voice and reshapes it to greet each customer by name across email flows - welcome, post-purchase, abandoned cart and more. The platform layers on inbox-placement optimization and automatic subject-line A/B testing, and plugs natively into Klaviyo. Founded in 2021 by Eitan Winer and Debarshi Chaudhuri, Maverick sells the idea that online shopping should feel a little more like being recognized by name at your neighborhood store.
Kapwing
Kapwing is a browser-based, collaborative video editing platform that uses AI to turn raw clips, transcripts, and ideas into shareable videos. Founded in 2017 by ex-Googlers Julia Enthoven and Eric Lu, it serves millions of creators, marketers, and educators who want to skip the desktop software and just make a video.
Krikey AI
Krikey AI is a San Francisco-based generative AI animation platform that turns text and video prompts into 3D animated characters, avatars and full videos - no rigging, no keyframing, no animation degree required. Founded in 2017 by sisters Jhanvi and Dr. Ketaki Shriram, it serves creators, educators, marketers and businesses through its web app and integrations with Canva, Adobe Express and AWS Marketplace.
Rizzle
Rizzle is an AI video creation, distribution, and monetization platform that turns written content - articles, blogs, newsletters and scripts - into polished, brand-safe videos in minutes. Built for publishers, media companies and content creators, it pairs generative AI drafting with human editorial refinement and pre-licensed assets from Getty Images, ElevenLabs and Soundstripe, then syndicates the finished videos across platforms like MSN, Yahoo and NewsBreak. Founded in 2019 by Vidya Narayanan and Lakshminath Dondeti, Rizzle began as a consumer short-video social app that grew to tens of millions of users before pivoting to an enterprise SaaS model for video-first content at scale.
Arcade
Arcade is a San Francisco software company that lets go-to-market teams build interactive product demos in minutes instead of weeks. Using a Chrome extension or desktop app, users record their product, then add pan-and-zoom, hotspots, synthetic voiceovers, and branching paths to create clickable 'arcades' that can be embedded in websites, emails, and social posts. Founded in 2021 by former Atlassian colleagues Caroline Clark and Rich Manalang, the company turns the old 'request a demo' wall into a 'try before you buy' experience, and is used by more than 14,000 companies including Zapier, Red Hat, and New Relic.
Biteable
Biteable is an online, AI-powered video creation platform that lets marketers, HR teams, agencies and small businesses turn a script or an idea into a polished, brand-ready video in minutes - no editing skills, cameras or production budget required. Founded in Hobart, Australia in 2014 and now run from Salt Lake City, the company pairs a drag-and-drop editor with a deep library of templates, stock footage and music, plus AI tools for avatars, voiceover, captions and translation.
Livepeer
Livepeer is an open, permissionless network that turns idle GPUs around the world into a decentralized marketplace for video infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by Doug Petkanics and Eric Tang, it began as a low-cost alternative to centralized video transcoding and has since expanded into real-time AI video - letting developers generate, transform and interpret live streams on a token-incentivized GPU network rather than expensive cloud providers.
Caroline Clark
Caroline Clark is the CEO and co-founder of Arcade, the San Francisco software company that turned the dreaded product demo into something people actually want to watch. After product marketing at Atlassian and a stint at Sequoia Capital, she started Arcade in 2021 to kill the screenshots-and-gifs grind she lived through firsthand. Today more than 14,000 companies, from Salesforce to Zapier to Carta, build interactive demos and AI-generated product videos on Arcade, which raised a $14M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins in November 2024. Clark borrows the feel of video games, pulsating dots, satisfying load times, to make B2B software feel like play, and runs the company on a borrowed Sequoia creed: rigor, discipline, and focus on quality.
Raj Gajwani
Raj Gajwani is Chief Business Officer at OpenArt AI, the San Francisco generative-AI creator suite for images and video. Before OpenArt he spent over a decade at Google, scaling DoubleClick's channel program to $1.3 billion in revenue and founding Orion Wifi, one of the most successful projects out of Google's Area 120 incubator (now part of Android). He also runs Day 0, an enterprise AI strategy consultancy, and serves as a board member, advisor, and angel investor across startups including Couchsurfing, MultiView, and the Wireless Broadband Alliance. A Harvard graduate who also studied at the London School of Economics, he sits at the intersection of frontier AI products and enterprise go-to-market.
Guidde
Guidde is an AI-powered video documentation platform that turns a screen recording into a polished, narrated how-to video in minutes. Used by 4,500+ companies including Nasdaq, Yahoo, Bayer and SentinelOne, Guidde positions itself as the connective tissue between employees and the enterprise software they have to learn fast.
InVideo
InVideo is an AI-powered video creation platform that turns plain text into polished, publish-ready videos. Founded in 2017 in Mumbai and now headquartered in Daly City, California, the company serves 50+ million users across 190+ countries. Its flagship product InVideo AI lets anyone - from solo creators to enterprise marketing teams - generate scripts, visuals, voiceovers, and complete videos by typing instructions in plain English. In 2025, InVideo became the only platform bundling access to both OpenAI's Sora 2 and Google's VEO 3.1 under a single subscription, cementing its position at the frontier of AI-driven video production.
Luma AI
Luma AI is a Palo Alto-based generative AI lab building multimodal foundation models that turn text, images, and ideas into video, 3D, and interactive scenes. Its flagship product, Dream Machine, has crossed 30 million users; its Ray3 model was the first reasoning-driven video model to generate native 16-bit HDR. Backed by HUMAIN, NVIDIA, Andreessen Horowitz, AMD, and Amplify, the company is racing toward what its founders call 'unified general intelligence' for the physical world.
Mux
Mux is the video API for developers. The San Francisco company gives engineers a simple set of endpoints for live streaming, on-demand video, encoding, playback, and quality-of-experience analytics, so they can ship video features without rebuilding the streaming stack from scratch.
OpenArt AI
OpenArt AI is a San Francisco-based AI creative platform founded in 2022 by former Google engineers Coco Mao and John Qiao. The platform aggregates 100+ AI models - including DALL-E 3, Stable Diffusion, Google Veo 3, Kling, and Sora - under a single interface, letting creators generate images, videos, music, and 3D environments without switching tools. From hobbyists making tabletop RPG art to agencies building brand-consistent content at scale, OpenArt serves roughly 8 million monthly active users. The company reached $70M+ ARR in 2025 with a 20-person team, then closed a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners in January 2026.
Yoav Einav
Yoav Einav is the CEO and co-founder of Guidde, the AI-powered video documentation platform that turns complex enterprise workflows into step-by-step video guides in minutes. A product leader with over 13 years in B2B software — spanning stints at Qwilt, Iguazio, and GigaSpaces — Einav co-founded Guidde in 2020 with Dan Sahar, leveraging their shared background in video infrastructure to solve a problem every scaling company hits: how do you transfer what your best people know? In February 2026, Guidde closed a $50M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $80.6M, and is now used by 4,500+ enterprises — from Nasdaq to Bayer — across 50,000 applications.
Krea
Krea is a San Francisco-based generative-AI creative suite that lets designers, artists and brands generate, enhance and remix images, video and 3D in real time. Founded in 2022 by Victor Perez and Diego Rodriguez, the company unifies leading AI models behind a single, designer-friendly interface and reached a $500M valuation in 2025.