# Tavus

> Tavus is a San Francisco AI company building the interface for face-to-face conversation between humans and machines. Its Conversational Video Interface (CVI) lets developers add real-time, emotionally aware AI video agents - what Tavus calls PALs - to any app through an API. Backed by CRV, Sequoia, Scale Venture Partners, Y Combinator and HubSpot Ventures, Tavus raised a $40M Series B in November 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $82M.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Hassaan Raza (Co-Founder & CEO), Quinn Favret (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~110 employees
- **Products:** Conversational Video Interface (CVI), PALs, PAL Maker, Video Generation API, Foundational models (Phoenix-4, Raven-1, Sparrow-1)
- **Notable:** Raised ~$82M total across Seed, Series A and Series B rounds, Closed a $40M Series B in November 2025 led by CRV, Shipped what it markets as the world's fastest Conversational Video Interface, with under 1 second end-to-end latency

## Products & services

- **Conversational Video Interface (CVI)** — API-first, end-to-end pipeline for real-time face-to-face AI video agents, handling perception, dialogue and rendering with under one second of latency. Developers can swap in their own LLM, voice and knowledge stack.
- **PALs** — Personified Application Layer - emotionally intelligent AI humans with agentic capabilities and multimodality across text, voice and face-to-face video that read expressions, remember context and pick up on social cues.
- **PAL Maker** — No-code platform for creating and deploying PALs on websites and apps.
- **Video Generation API** — Generative AI face and voice cloning to produce personalized videos at scale.
- **Foundational models (Phoenix-4, Raven-1, Sparrow-1)** — Phoenix-4 renders lifelike expression and head pose; Raven-1 is a contextual perception model reading faces, emotion, gaze and gestures; Sparrow-1 is an audio understanding model managing timing, tone and turn-taking.

## Achievements

- Raised ~$82M total across Seed, Series A and Series B rounds
- Closed a $40M Series B in November 2025 led by CRV
- Shipped what it markets as the world's fastest Conversational Video Interface, with under 1 second end-to-end latency
- Built a proprietary model stack - Phoenix-4, Raven-1 and Sparrow-1 - for rendering, perception and audio understanding
- Backed by Sequoia Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Y Combinator and HubSpot Ventures

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Raised $40M Series B led by CRV to build 'human computing' and advance emotionally intelligent AI humans (PALs).
- **2025** — Introduced PALs and the Phoenix-4, Raven-1 and Sparrow-1 foundational models.
- **2024-03** — Raised $18M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners and launched developer APIs for its generative AI video platform.

## Links

- Website: https://www.tavus.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tavus-io/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/heytavus
- GitHub: https://github.com/Tavus-Engineering

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Last updated: 2026-07-10