HeyGen

HeyGen is an artificial intelligence company building an AI video generation platform. Users can input text, image, or audio to create complete videos with narration, captions, visuals, and animations, starring lifelike AI avatars with phoneme-level lip-sync in 175+ languages and dialects. The company says it is trusted by over 1,000,000 developers and has helped over 100,000 companies and millions of people create, localize, and personalize videos at scale. It was founded by Joshua Xu, previously an engineer at Snap working on Snapchat Ads and the AI camera, and is backed by investors including Benchmark, Conviction, Thrive Capital, and Bond; Bloomberg reported a $500 million valuation in a June 2024 funding round, and Forbes has named it an AI 50 company.