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Captions Put the Editing Room in Your Pocket
Captions began as a clever subtitle app. Now it cuts footage, fixes eye contact, dubs speech, builds AI presenters and even takes edit notes by text - useful power for people whose real job is not editing video.
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.
Murf AI
Murf AI is a voice technology company that turns text into natural-sounding speech. Founded in 2020 by three IIT Kharagpur friends, it started as a self-serve AI voiceover studio for creators and marketers and has since expanded into dubbing, voice cloning, a low-latency text-to-speech API (Falcon), and conversational voice agents. Murf says its platform is used by more than 10 million people and 300+ Forbes 2000 companies across 190+ countries, offering 200+ voices in 35+ languages.
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.
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.
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.