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Synthesia Found $4 Billion in the Gap Between PowerPoint and Pixar
The London startup began by making famous faces speak new languages. Its real business arrived when ordinary employees asked for something less glamorous: a way to turn the next PowerPoint, policy update or training manual into video without booking a studio.
Hour One Put the Corporate Presenter on Autopilot
Hour One turns scripts, slides and prompts into presenter-led videos without a camera crew. It is built for the unglamorous, valuable work of making the fifteenth training update as practical as the first.
Norah McDonald Markets the Video Nobody Sees Until Everybody Needs It
After a career spent turning complicated software into clear business stories, Vbrick's CMO has arrived at a fitting subject: helping companies make their own video useful, secure, and findable.
Idomoo Spent 19 Years Making One Video for Everyone - Then Taught AI to Make One for Anyone
Before AI video became a prompt box, Idomoo was rebuilding the rendering engine underneath it. Now its agent Lucas and foundation model Strata are turning customer data, brand rules and editable layers into millions of different films.
Vbrick Put the Office TV in the Cloud - Now It Wants to Feed Your AI
The 29-year-old video company survived the appliance era by turning hardware into software. Its next bet is that the meeting nobody rewatched may contain the answer an AI agent needs.
OpusClip Paid People to Use Its First Product. Then One Feature Found 5 Million Users
The livestreaming app stalled at roughly 200 users. Its clipping tool did the opposite - revealing a useful lesson about product-market fit, creator software and the limits of one-click editing.
HeyGen
HeyGen wants to make the camera optional. Its digital twins, translation tools and video agents turn one human performance into a production system that can speak to almost anyone.
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.
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.