VideoGen makes it easy for anyone to create professional, copyright-free videos in seconds. Today, we serve thousands of customers, from individuals and small businesses to teams at Google and ByteDance.

Making videos is hard, time-consuming, and expensive if you hire someone to do it for you. With VideoGen, it only takes a few clicks!
Generate professional videos in seconds
Title: VideoGen: AI that can create and edit professional videos | Y Combinator

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### AI that can create and edit professional videos

VideoGen makes it easy for anyone to create professional, copyright-free videos in seconds. Today, we serve thousands of customers, from individuals and small businesses to teams at Google and ByteDance. Making videos is hard, time-consuming, and expensive if you hire someone to do it for you. With VideoGen, it only takes a few clicks!



VideoGen

Founded:2023

Team Size:3

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Anton Koenig, Founder

Co-founder and CEO of VideoGen. I previously interned at AWS and dropped out of UMass Amherst Computer Science to focus on VideoGen full-time.



### David Grossman, Founder

I'm the cofounder and CTO of VideoGen (S24), a platform for generating professional videos using AI. Before this, I studied Computer Science and Applied Math at Brown and interned at Palantir.



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**TLDR:** [VideoGen]( makes it easy for anyone to create professional, copyright-free videos in seconds. Today, we serve thousands of customers, from individuals and small businesses to teams at Google and ByteDance. Making videos is hard, time-consuming, and expensive when outsourced. With VideoGen, it only takes a few clicks!



👋 Hello, we’re Anton and David. We bootstrapped VideoGen out of our college dorm rooms to over 1 million users in under a year. We met at a tennis academy in middle school and became friends through our shared passion for building web apps and playing tennis. Now, we’re changing how the world creates videos with the help of AI.

### **The Problem: Creating videos is tedious, painful, and hard.**

Making videos is hard. Each step of the process—scripting, recording voice-overs, finding and licensing high-quality footage, and editing—is extremely time-consuming.

Video editing products today are hard to use and have too many buttons. Paying someone to make videos for you is expensive and slow.

### **The Solution: AI that creates videos for you.**

VideoGen can automatically edit professional videos together in a few seconds, saving our customers time and the pain of hiring a video editor.

In just a few clicks, VideoGen can:

🧠 Take in company/brand knowledge and media

✍️ Write a video script

🗣️ Generate a lifelike voice-over

✂️ Edit together relevant, copyright-free footage

💬 Add captions

VideoGen does this all in over 100 languages and accents for a global user base.

Once your video is done, you can add your finishing touches in an easy-to-use, web-based video editor.

### **Try the API – Get $1,000 in free credits (YC Deal)**

Are you interested in integrating VideoGen with your app? Reach out to us at [founders@videogen.io](mailto:founders@videogen.io)

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### Hear from the founders

#### How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)

👋 Hello, we’re Anton and David. We bootstrapped VideoGen out of our college dorm rooms to over 1 million users in under a year. We met at a Tennis Academy in middle school and became friends over a shared passion for building web apps and playing tennis. Now, we’re changing the way the world creates videos with the help of AI.

#### What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?

Making videos is hard. Each step of the process—scripting, recording voice-overs, finding and licensing high-quality footage, and editing—is extremely time-consuming. Video editing products today are hard to use and have too many buttons. Paying someone to make videos for you is expensive and slow.
