
Descript is a new kind of video editor that’s as easy as a doc. Descript’s AI-powered features and intuitive interface fuel YouTube and TikTok channels, top podcasts, and businesses using video for marketing, sales, and internal training and collaboration. Descript aims to make video a staple of every communicator’s toolkit, alongside docs and slides.

Descript is a new kind of video editor that’s as easy as a doc. Descript’s AI-powered features and intuitive interface fuel YouTube and TikTok channels, top podcasts, and businesses using video for marketing, sales, and internal training and collaboration. Descript aims to make video a staple of every communicator’s toolkit, alongside docs and slides.
What they do: AI-powered text-first audio and video editing platform (desktop + web) with generative features
Founded: 2017
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Funding: Approximately $100M total; $50M Series C led by the OpenAI Startup Fund
Employees: ~192
Content creation and editing (audio & video) for creators, marketers, podcasters, and teams
2017
Software Development
$5M
$15M
Acquisition of Lyrebird announced alongside funding
$30M
$50M
“Backed by institutional investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, and Spark Capital”