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Tavus

AI video cloning platform

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1-20 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Marketing
  • Augmented Reality
  • SaaS
  • Video
SoMa, San Francisco, CA

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Company mission

To allow companies to maintain important personal connections with their future customers and partners, all while saving time, effort, and costs.

Our take

Tavus is an AI video cloning that uses synthetic media, more popularly known as ‘deepfakes’, for companies to produce customizable and scalable content. The platform enables businesses to create videos for the purpose of marketing, outreach, sales, recruiting and more while tailoring them to specific individuals.

Other players in field include Loom and Vidyard, both of which have proven the value of personalized videos for businesses, but whose services take time. Tavus is scalable as its platform can generate thousands of personalized videos in the time it would take to record just one. The videos generated currently come with imperfections, notably the lip-syncing and video-cloning, which Tavus tenuously claims creates for more engaging content.

Synthetic media was called upon heavily during the pandemic, as companies created AI-copilots that could host conferences and pitches remotely - so it will be interesting to see how this industry continues to grow as time goes on. Tavus are young, but are expanding quickly, having being backed by Sequoia and Y Combinator, amongst other top firms, and have the funds to accelerate development and growth moving forward.

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Benefits

  • Flexible hours
  • Debate and feedback are cornerstones of our culture
  • Company retreats
  • Yearly stipend for you to spend on any learning materials (i.e. newsletters, online courses, etc.)
  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their families, with 100% of monthly premiums paid by Tavus
  • Unlimited paid time off, as well as parental and pawental leave
  • Remote-friendly, with teams at home or in co-working spaces across the globe
  • Frequent in person meet ups
  • Generous gear stipend
  • Progressive, open-minded meritocracy
  • Team members from diverse backgrounds – we’re looking for culture creators, not culture fits

Company values

  • Move fast - We prioritize action and efficiency, as by moving forward, we learn more about how to solve that problem than by theorizing.
  • People first - People are at the center of our company, in every aspect.
  • Data driven - Data > anecdotes. We don’t always have perfect data, but we root our decisions in analysis and not beliefs.
  • Customer obsessed - We build for our customers, and every decision we make has them in mind.

Funding (2 rounds)

Mar 2024

$18m

SERIES A

Mar 2023

$6.1m

SEED

Total funding: $24.1m

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Leadership

Hassaan Raza

(Co-founder & CEO)

Previously co-founded Accantus. Served as Engineering Project Manager for Apple and Technical Program Manager for Google before spending 6 years at Simublade as Senior Product Manager and later as Director of Product Development.

Quinn Favret

(Co-founder)

Previously co-founded Chime Menu before starting Tavus.