ai-video
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Shahar Aizenberg Is Betting Artlist’s Brand on the Work
Artlist’s CMO came up through economics, finance and user acquisition. Now he is making a more artistic wager: when machines produce endless options, human judgment becomes the scarce thing.
Yotam Ben Ami Wants Video to Know Who Is Watching
After law, McKinsey, movie piracy and Firefox OS, Yotam Ben Ami found his long game in a deceptively simple idea: a video should behave less like a finished object and more like a living conversation.
Grace Wang Is Building the Editing Room That Never Sleeps
A finance graduate and former ByteDance growth operator saw creators drowning in post-production. At OpusClip, Grace Wang turned that bottleneck into a distribution engine used by millions.
Nimish Goel Bet the Company on Making Celebrity Time Scale
A gatecrashed wedding supplied the spark. A stubborn bottleneck supplied the business. Nimish Goel turned five seconds of fandom into an enterprise bet on video at impossible scale.
Jasper Story Is Teaching AI to Sweat the Cut
A former maths teacher, Google contractor and startup generalist is turning the fussy craft of product video into a system teams can direct with words. His bet is that automation matters most when it leaves the story feeling human.
Harry Zheng Is Building the Box Office After the Box Office
The former Google and TikTok engineer began with a better creative workflow. He ended up challenging the economics of who gets to make a film, who pays for it, and who owns the audience.
Erik Vank Is Editing the Waiting Out of Sports
A smart lamp, a 2 a.m. hackathon idea and one very sociable pitch night led Erik Vank to a harder question: why does the clip that matters still arrive after the moment has passed?
Ritam Rana Is Betting the Company on One Impolite Question: Who Still Reads the Manual?
At Knowlify, four University of Florida friends are turning dense documents into animated explainers. CEO Ritam Rana’s route runs from autonomous boats and student coding projects to Y Combinator, a $3 million round, and a stubborn wager on video as the default language of work.
Krish Iyengar Is Turning the Family Screen Into a Tiny Studio
He built five mobile apps, won four hackathons with a friend from second grade, and left Purdue. Now Krish Iyengar wants children to direct the stories on their screens - and is using the same machinery to rethink video production.
Kabir Nagral Keeps the Name and Changes the Game
He left Harvard to build Craze, learned payroll from the sharp end, killed the product in public, and kept the name for an AI video company. The through-line is less glamorous than any pivot: Kabir Nagral likes software that does the work.
Gil Perry Taught Machines to Forget a Face. Then He Taught Them to Speak.
D-ID began as a privacy shield for photographs. Its co-founder now wants to replace the click-and-type web with conversations that look back at you - a pivot built on the same code, and a rather different idea of what a face can do.
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.
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.
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.
John Kremer
John Kremer is the CEO of Rizzle, a San Francisco-based AI video platform that turns written content into broadcast-quality video for publishers and media companies. A 30-year Silicon Valley veteran, Kremer brings operational depth from senior leadership roles at Yahoo!, Adobe, and JP Morgan Chase - having helped Adobe's Digital Media business scale from under $3B to over $12B in revenue. At Rizzle, he leads a platform reaching over 1 billion viewers across MSN, Yahoo, NewsBreak, and social media, cutting video production time by up to 98% and costs by 80% for media clients.
Eric Jang
Eric Seyoung Jang is the Founder and CEO of DeepBrain AI, a Palo Alto-based company building hyper-realistic AI avatars, video synthesis technology, and conversational AI systems. Inspired by AlphaGo's 2016 defeat of Go champion Lee Sedol, he pivoted from fintech to artificial intelligence and built what became the first company to commercially deploy video synthesis at scale - from AI news anchors in Chinese broadcast studios to AI bankers in Korean bank branches. Under his leadership, DeepBrain AI raised $44M in Series B funding at a $180M valuation and set its sights on becoming the world's leading generative AI enterprise.
Sagi Ben-Moshe
Sagi Ben-Moshe is the founder and CEO of Lumana, a hybrid-cloud AI video security platform headquartered in Los Gatos with R&D roots in Tel Aviv. A serial entrepreneur and former Chief Incubation Officer at Intel - where he ran the RealSense computer vision division - he is rebuilding video surveillance around AI that perceives context, not just pixels.
Demi Guo
Demi Guo is the co-founder and CEO of Pika, an AI-powered video generation platform that has raised $135 million and reached a $470 million valuation. A Harvard math-and-CS graduate and Stanford PhD dropout, she holds silver medals from the International Olympiad in Informatics and gold medals from the Math Prize for Girls. Before founding Pika in April 2023, she was the youngest full-time researcher at Meta AI. Her platform, which lets anyone create cinematic videos from a text prompt, reached 16.4 million users and inspired Pika 2.2 features that went viral with an 800% user surge.
Jeff Lu
Jeff (Jiajun) Lu is the founder and CEO of AKOOL, the generative AI video platform that ranked #1 on the Inc. 5000 list in 2025 with 37,364% revenue growth in three years. A PhD computer scientist who worked on Face ID at Apple and video processing at Google Cloud before building AKOOL on just 8 GPUs in 2020, Lu has turned a side project generating $100K into a $40M-revenue company powering AI avatars and real-time video translation for Coca-Cola, Amazon, Google, and Nvidia.
Justine Moore
Justine Moore is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where she invests in AI-native consumer products and generative media, with a portfolio spanning companies like ElevenLabs and Viggle AI. A Stanford alum who co-founded Cardinal Ventures as a student, she launched the 'Accelerated' newsletter with her identical twin sister Olivia (also a partner at a16z), and together they are known as the 'Venture Twins.' Before a16z, Justine spent four years at CRV investing in DTC and consumer startups, and briefly took an operator role at Canal between VC stints. Her mother was a venture investor, making her something of VC royalty who grew up watching pitch meetings from a stroller.