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 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 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 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 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.