video-editing
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MarketU wants you to own the editing room.
A $65 short-form edit is the easy part to understand. The more interesting business is helping customers move from buying finished videos to running the operation that makes them.
EGM LTD and the business of making things disappear
A mannequin, a stray hair, a distracting background: Edit Growth Media handles the small edits behind finished product images and wedding films. Its business is built around a deceptively difficult promise - making somebody else’s work look consistent.
Adil Ashraf knows what happens after the prompt
An orange-juice pouch, a rescued deadline and a self-initiated commercial reveal the practical instincts behind this motion-design business’s turn toward AI video.
Boris FX Bought the Boring Parts of Hollywood - and Built a Creative Software Arsenal
For 30 years, Boris Yamnitsky has collected the unglamorous tools that make glamorous images possible. The result is a private software portfolio that sits inside Hollywood's favorite workflows - from a disappearing wire to a repaired soundtrack.
Kite
Kite is a screen recorder that turns raw product demos into polished, Apple-style marketing videos in minutes. Built by Y Combinator S23 founders Derek Feehrer and Todd Ashley, it uses WebGL and AI to automatically add cinematic cursor zooms, 3D device mockups, animated text, AI voiceovers and music - letting founders and marketers produce professional launch and feature videos without an editor or motion-graphics skills.
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.
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.
Higgsfield AI
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.
Pika
Pika is a San Francisco-based generative AI company building a consumer video platform that turns text, images, and clips into short cinematic videos. Founded in 2023 by Stanford AI Lab alumni Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, Pika has shipped a string of fast-iterating model releases (Pika 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2) and viral features like Pikaffects, Scene Ingredients, and Pikaframes. The company has raised roughly $135M from Spark Capital, Lightspeed, Greycroft, and others.
Wideframe
Wideframe is an AI coworker for professional video editors that automates the tedious prep work - searching, labeling, organizing, and sequencing footage - that takes up roughly 75% of an editor's time outside the timeline. Built for Mac on Apple Silicon, it runs entirely on-device, reads and writes native Adobe Premiere Pro project files, and lets editors describe what they need in plain language. The result: hours of prep work compressed into minutes, and editors freed up to actually edit.