
At HeyGen, we help you grow your business through the magic of visual storytelling. Creating professional-quality videos can be daunting, but HeyGen makes it easy for everyone—no camera or specialized skills required.

At HeyGen, we help you grow your business through the magic of visual storytelling. Creating professional-quality videos can be daunting, but HeyGen makes it easy for everyone—no camera or specialized skills required.
Product: AI video generation platform for creating avatar-led videos from text/image/audio with translation/localization support
Founded: Dec 2020
Founders: Joshua Xu (Co‑Founder & CEO); Wayne Liang (Co‑Founder & CPO)
Funding stage: Series A (Benchmark lead)
Headcount (approx.): 320 employees (reported)
Video creation at scale, personalization/localization of video content, and reducing production friction for marketing, learning & development, and sales.
2020
Online Audio and Video Media
$9M (reported)
Reported seed-era raise (company previously known as Movio); investors at that time included IDG, Sequoia Capital China, and Baidu Ventures.
$60M
Company announced a $60M Series A led by Benchmark and thanked participating investors including Thrive Capital, BOND, and SV Angel; Benchmark partner Victor Lazarte joined the board. Third‑party databases also list additional syndicate participants.
“Series A led by Benchmark with participation from investors such as Thrive Capital, BOND, SV Angel and additional syndicate participants including Conviction VC and individual investors (e.g., Dylan Field, Neil Mehta, Aviv Nevo); Benchmark added a board member (Victor Lazarte).”
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About HeyGen At HeyGen, our mission is to make visual storytelling accessible to all. Over the last decade, visual content has become the preferred method of information creation, consumption, and retention. But the ability to create such content, in particular videos, continues to be costly and challenging to scale. Our ambition is to build technology that equips more people with the power to reach, captivate, and inspire audiences.
Learn more at www.heygen.com. Visit our Mission and Culture doc here.
Driving Product Innovation with Advanced Computer Vision Technology HeyGen is a dynamic startup at the forefront of revolutionizing video content with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology. With a robust track record of growth and a proven business model, we are rapidly carving out a leadership position in the AI-powered video creation industry. We are in search of passionate Research Scientists with a specialization in Computer Vision to propel our mission forward. If you are eager to deploy your advanced skills to disrupt and redefine the video creation and interaction experience, your next big opportunity awaits with us.
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