Startup Videos
The launch videos, explainers, founder stories, pitches, ads, and keynotes founders study before making their own. Browse by what a video is for, then narrow to your industry. Tap any video to play it right here.
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Introducing Ideogram 4.0: The Best Open Image Model in the World
Ideogram launches its 4.0 model, claiming the best open weights image generator with sharp text rendering
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Introducing Recraft V4
Recraft launches V4, an image model built with designers for brand consistent, production ready visuals
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Kling 3.0: The Best AI Video Generation I've Ever Seen
Latest version with major advances in video quality and consistency
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Absurd (YC F25) Launch Video
Creative studio pairing AI video agents with human directors to ship brand ads in 72 hours.
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Artificial Societies YC Launch Video
Simulates thousands of interconnected AI personas so brands can pretest campaigns before spending.
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Cardboard launch
Raw clips reordering themselves into a finished cut shows the editor doing the tedious part for you.
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Claude Code comes to Figma
Figma brings Claude Code onto the canvas, so you move between writing code and designing in one place.
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Claude x Blender MCP launch
A silent, sped up 23 seconds of Claude driving Blender lets the aha land without a single word.
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Eleven v3 (alpha) - the most expressive Text to Speech model
Most expressive text-to-speech with cinematic quality and emotion
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ElevenLabs launch
Stacking uncannily human voices across languages back to back makes you double check it is not a real actor.
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FLORA launch
Opening on AI tools built by non creatives, then gliding across the canvas, frames it as the creator's tool.
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Golpo (YC S25) Launch: explainer video from any document or prompt
Generates full whiteboard explainer videos from a prompt or document in 50 plus languages, RSA Animate style.
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Introducing Krea 1 - our new image model.
Krea launches its own image model built for aesthetic control and style consistency, not just prompts
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introducing lipsync-2, the most natural lipsync model in the world
Zero shot lipsync that edits anyone's mouth to match new audio while keeping their style, no per person training.
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Introducing Sora 2
Adds synced sound and physically accurate motion plus cameos that drop you into any AI scene.
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Krea AI Video: The New KING of AI Video?
Real-time AI video generation with fast, interactive creation workflow
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Meet HeyGen Avatar IV
Animates a single still photo into a talking clip with the first natural hand gestures.
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Miyagi Labs (YC W25) Launch Demo
Turns a creator's videos into an interactive AI tutor that answers learner questions in the creator's own voice.
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Next-Level AI Video Magic with Pika 2.2
Multi-frame animation with full camera control for creative videos
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Opine (YC W25) Launch Video
Reimagines social media as an AI native feed built around your interests rather than who you follow.
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Parrot YC F25 | Launch Video
TikTok style language learning built on native video clips and interactive subtitles.
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Pencil launch
A rough sketch snapping into a finished layout in canvas sells the AI design promise without a word of pitch.
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Pomp AI agent launch
His AI clone runs a real interview so smoothly you stop knowing who is speaking, which is exactly the hook.
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Runway Gen-4 launch
Holding one character consistent across wildly different shots answers the exact thing video models kept failing.
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Stability AI audio launch
Generating a full music bed from a text prompt in the clip makes the audio leap audible right away.
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Stable Diffusion SDXL Turbo Advance Tutorial with Prompt Guide
Major updates adding video-to-audio generation and faster models
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Synthesia AI Tutorial: Best AI Video Generator 2025
AI avatar platform democratizing video production for enterprises
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The Last Meadow - Announcement Trailer
Discord gaming platform expansion with exclusive game partnership announcement
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Underlord in Descript: Get Started with Your AI Video Co-Editor
AI video editing assistant that understands your creative style
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Veo 3 is now available in preview
The first big video model to generate synced dialogue, sound effects, and ambient audio in one pass.
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Creating the future of AI video - Synthesia
World's leading AI video platform with realistic avatars and personalization
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Descript Underlord: AI video editing assistant
Runs whole edits, rough cut, B roll, Studio Sound, from a prompt inside a full editor.
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Expressive AI Avatars Launch Event | Synthesia
Live launch event demoing expressive AI avatars with real gestures, pitched at replacing corporate video shoots.
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Gen-3 Alpha: Available Now
A big jump in fidelity and motion to paying users, later a TIME best invention of 2024.
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Generative AI AI Video Pioneer Tavus Raises $18 Million
Digital twin video platform for personalized AI video at enterprise scale
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Introducing Act-One | Runway
One phone video of an actor drives a fully animated character, collapsing performance capture into a single take.
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Introducing Luma Dream Machine
Photoreal text and image to video shots that went viral and overwhelmed the servers on launch day.
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Kling AI 1.6 is HERE: BEST AI Video Generator of 2024?
Chinese AI video model rivaling Runway, Pika with fast turnaround
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Luma AI's HUGE Dream Machine Update: A Deep Dive
AI video generator with Ray models, consistent characters, boards
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Meet Underlord: How to use your new AI editing assistant
Shows an AI co editor cutting a video by editing the transcript, doing the tedious parts while you direct.
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Palmier (YC S24) Launch Video
A video editor rebuilt for AI, the same tool used to cut cinematic launch videos for dozens of other YC startups.
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The NEW Pika 2.0 Model is Absolutely Game-Changing!
Idea-to-video platform with consistent, realistic AI video generation
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Udio: Make your music
Udio's own launch video for its AI music generator that turns a prompt into a full song
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Introducing Pika 1.0, An Idea-to-Video Platform
Whimsical idea to video reel dropped alongside a 55M raise, showing text prompts becoming clean animated clips.
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Introducing Typeface: Anything Imagined
Typeface's launch film for its generative AI platform that creates on brand marketing content at scale
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The capabilities of multimodal AI (Gemini demo)
Gemini reasons live over drawings and a duck sketch; later revealed as edited, a case study in demo craft and its backlash.
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DJI - Introducing the DJI Mavic
The launch film for DJI's first compact personal flying camera, the drone that defined the category.
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