Higgsfield AI is a San Francisco-based generative AI company that builds professional video and image creation tools for creators, marketers, and enterprise teams. Founded in October 2023 by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, the platform offers Cinema Studio, Lip-Sync Studio, and a suite of AI models (Sora 2, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1) for producing cinematic-quality content. The company reached $200M annualized revenue run rate within 9 months of launch, achieved unicorn status at a $1.3B valuation in January 2026 after raising $80M in a Series A extension led by Accel, and hosts 25 million users across 240+ countries generating 4.5 million videos per day.
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.