The newest funding secured by Katalist, Slovenian-founded startup based in San Francisco, USA (HQ) with a global remote team.
👯 Founder(s): Andraž Zvonar (Co-founder & CEO) and Blaž Blokar (Co-founder)
📅 Founding year: 2023
🏭 Industry: AI Video / Creative Tech
💥 Problem: Video production teams face exponential demand and high costs, often lacking the budget or time to visualize complex scripts and storyboards manually.
📣 Solution: An AI-powered “video production operating system” that automates the end-to-end workflow, turning scripts into consistent shotlists, storyboards, and high-end video.
👥 Customers: 250,000+ professionals, including content marketers, film producers, authors, and creative agencies; now expanding into the enterprise segment.
🎳 Team size: 10 employees
🌱 Stage: Seed
💰 Investment amount: €1.28M ($1.5M)
🚀 Funded by: South Central Ventures
💡 It will be spent on… Scaling the AI platform and expanding the company’s presence into the enterprise market.
💬 In their own words:
“We helped the world’s top brands create higher-quality video and reach more than 1 billion people while spending less. Now our mission is to empower storytellers everywhere to do their best work without budget or time constraints,” — Andraž Zvonar, CEO.
💪 Their specialty… The platform features a “character library” and proprietary tech that ensures character consistency across different frames and scenes, solving a major hurdle in generative AI video.
🔑 Business model: SaaS (Subscription)
💸 Funding so far: The company was previously backed by 500 Global (500 Eurasia fund).
