Video Generation AI Startup Jobs

Higgsfield is a San Francisco-based AI platform for generating and editing images and videos, offering cinematic scene creation, camera controls, visual effects, upscaling, and character creation tools. Founded in 2023 by former Snap Head of Generative AI Alex Mashrabov, it powers visual production for hundreds of Fortune 500 companies.

AI video generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages, serving enterprise communications and training.

Runway is an applied AI research company and pioneer of generative media tools, building AI-powered software for video, image, and multimedia content generation. Best known for text-to-video and image-to-video models used by filmmakers and content creators.

Fastest generative media platform for developers providing access to 1,000+ production-ready AI models for image, video, audio, and 3D generation through a unified API and serverless GPU infrastructure.

OpenArt is a San Francisco-based AI image and video creation platform founded by ex-Googlers, serving roughly 8M monthly active users. Its flagship product, Director, generates complete videos up to about five minutes long from natural-language descriptions of story, characters, style, and pacing — an approach the company calls Vibe Directing. Users produce short films, trailers, micro-dramas, music videos, and UGC ads without editing software or technical expertise.

An AI video generation platform specializing in video creation and AI avatars, enabling businesses to create professional videos at scale with generative AI.

Tavus is the human computing company building emotionally intelligent AI humans (PALs - Personal Affective Links) that communicate through text, voice, and face-to-face video with agentic capabilities and real-time perception. Powered by proprietary models including Phoenix-4, Sparrow-1, and Raven-1, Tavus enables AI agents that can see, hear, understand emotions, and act autonomously. Over 100,000 developers and enterprises use Tavus technology for recruiting, sales, education, and customer service.

Odyssey is an AI lab building interactive video and world models that generate real-time, explorable scenes for new media.

Pika develops consumer-first generative video tools that let users create and edit short-form videos from prompts, images, and clips through an intuitive AI-native workflow.

Twelve Labs builds multimodal AI foundation models and an API platform for video understanding, enabling search, analysis, and reasoning over video content at scale. The company partners with AWS and NVIDIA to power 'video superintelligence' for enterprise and developer customers.

AI video research lab and creator platform building full-stack foundation models for short-form video creation, editing, and marketing. Formerly known as Captions, Mirage powers over 200 million videos with AI-driven tools used by 20 million creators and businesses worldwide.

Descript is an all-in-one video and podcast editing platform that makes editing as easy as editing a document. It offers text-based editing, screen recording, transcription, and AI-powered tools for content creators and media teams.

Krea is a next-generation AI creative suite that provides a unified platform combining multiple generative AI models with a custom interface for image, video, and multimedia creation. It is designed to give designers and creatives intuitive, fine-grained control over AI-generated content. Customers include Pixar, LEGO, and Samsung.

AI video generation platform that creates lifelike animated characters by combining text, image, and audio inputs.

A24 is an independent entertainment company producing and distributing films, television, and related consumer media products.

Comfy develops ComfyUI, an open-source node-based platform for generative AI that enables creators to build visual AI workflows, used by over 1 million creators at companies like Netflix, Amazon Studios, and Tencent.

Melius is a New York-based AI platform where teams of AI agents generate ad campaigns, images, video, and audio on a node-based creative canvas. Founded by ex-Ramp engineers Joowon Kim, Young Kim, and Arnav Ramu, the company pivoted from an ad-spend optimization tool into an "agents lab for creative work."

Supersonik builds AI agents that run live, multilingual product demos for SaaS teams, so prospects can explore software instantly without scheduling calls.

Frontier AI lab building reasoning models that let anyone describe a game or simulation in natural language and see it transformed into a working interactive 2D/3D scene within minutes.

Sequel.io is a low-code embedded video platform that enables brands to host webinars and online events directly on their own websites.

Capsule builds an AI-powered video editor for work teams to create branded motion graphics and videos quickly.

GenPeach AI develops multimodal generative foundation models for human-centric image and video creation, powering digital humans, virtual influencers, and AI companions for creative industries. Founded in 2025 and based in Zurich, Switzerland (with team members in Warsaw), it is an early-stage startup backed by angels and founders from OpenAI, Meta AI, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI. Per PitchBook/Nordic9 it has raised roughly $1.5M in pre-seed funding.

Multimodal AI video clipping platform that automatically finds, edits, and posts short-form social content from long videos. Used by media companies like iHeart, marketing teams, and podcasters to 10x social impressions with autonomous video workflows, custom-trained agents, and multi-platform scheduling for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X.

A generative AI content platform for marketing that produces high-quality personalized videos, avatars, and visual assets.

AI video ads platform-generate UGC-style creatives from scripts, product links, and assets.

BRAHMA AI is an AI-native operating system for enterprise audiovisual content, combining BRAHMA AI Core (content intelligence and management) with BRAHMA AI Studio (AI-powered creation of video, audio, digital humans, and voice). The platform serves media & entertainment, sports, healthcare, and advertising enterprises.

Cartwheel builds AI animation tools that turn text, motion, and video inputs into production-ready character animation for games, film, advertising, and social content.

Creao AI (CREAO) is an agentic AI platform where users describe a task in conversation and a cloud-based "super agent" executes it end-to-end, writing code, calling APIs, and operating a browser in a sandboxed environment. Successful runs are saved as reusable, schedulable Agent Apps with persistent memory, letting small teams automate recurring business workflows like sales, marketing, and recruiting.

Creati Gen AI Inc. is a San Francisco-based AI creative tools company founded by Ella Zhang, best known for Creati Studio, a generative AI design and video platform with over 20 million users. In April 2026, the company raised $20M led by Redpoint Ventures to launch Buzzy, a conversational AI video editor that lets creators fix and refine video content through text commands.

AI-powered visual content generation platform leveraging computer vision technology for image and video editing, offering background removal, image enhancement, and AI content generation tools developed by LibAI team.

Decart is an Israeli AI research lab building real-time "world models" that generate interactive video and simulated environments frame-by-frame with ultra-low latency. Its products include Oasis (an AI-generated playable game world), Lucy (live video transformation), and the Decart Optimization Stack for chip-agnostic inference and training.

Flick is an AI-native filmmaking platform that gives professional creators cinematic control through an AI-native workflow built for storytelling, iteration, and artistic direction. Co-founded by award-winning filmmaker Zoey Zhang and founding Instagram engineer Ray Wang, the YC F25 startup raised a $6M seed round in May 2026 from True Ventures, GV, YC, Lightspeed, Formosa Capital, Pioneer Fund, Olive Tree Capital, and N1.

Lemon Slice is a research and product lab building real-time interactive AI avatars, using its own video-diffusion models to turn any single image into a character you can video-chat with live. Its Lemon Slice-2 model is offered to developers via API and embeddable web components for use cases like education, language learning, e-commerce, and corporate training. The company emerged from Y Combinator's W24 batch.

Creates generative 3D and video models that capture the real world and render cinematic scenes from text or images.

Cloud-based AI-powered image editing platform offering face swapping, video editing, image upscaling, watermark removal, and background removal tools

Reve (Reve AI, Inc.) is a Palo Alto-based AI research lab building text-to-image generation and editing models, known for Reve Image's strong prompt adherence, typography accuracy, and native 4K output. Founded by Adobe and Stability AI veterans Christian Cantrell, Michaël Gharbi, Taesung Park, Jon Watte, and Mike Speiser, it competes with Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, and Ideogram.

Riverside is an online recording and editing studio for podcasts and video content, delivering studio-quality audio and video through local recording technology. Powered by AI-driven editing features including automatic transcription, clip generation, and magic enhancement.

Shofo is building the world's largest indexed video library — described as 'Common Crawl for Videos' — by continuously crawling and labeling public video content from social platforms like TikTok. It sells custom, multi-stage annotated datasets (object detection, activity recognition, semantic segmentation, reasoning annotations) to AI labs for pre-training and fine-tuning. Part of Y Combinator's W2026 batch.

Submagic is an AI-powered short-form video editing platform that automates caption generation, B-roll insertion, and visual effects for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts. Founded in 2023 by David Zitoun, it reached $8M ARR with a team of ~13-22 people while remaining fully bootstrapped, serving 4M+ creators worldwide.

Easy-to-use online video editing platform for creating stunning videos, adding subtitles, and growing audience with professional tools

Wideframe is an AI agent that automates the video work that happens outside the non-linear editor, handling searching, labeling, organizing, and sequencing of footage across local and cloud storage. It natively integrates with Adobe Premiere Pro project files and has onboarded 50+ brands and agencies since launch.

Wonder Studios is an AI-native film and content production studio harnessing generative AI to develop original films, music videos, and branded content. Founded in London with offices in New York and Los Angeles, the studio works with a community of over 200 AI-native filmmakers and has produced its first AI-generated anthology series.