The founders include serial entrepreneurs who sold companies to Twitter, VMWare and IBM, and past executives from Sony Pictures and Warner Bros
Voia, a startup developing AI based technology to enable everyone to produce Hollywood quality videos, announces a $3 million pre-seed fundraise from private investors. The company was founded in 2022 and employs 14 people across the US.
Voia’s five founders bring together Hollywood and Silicon Valley. They include Avner Braverman, formerly co-founder and CEO of Reshuffle (acq Twitter); Mitch Singer, who served over two decades in leadership positions, including CTO, at Sony Pictures; Haim Helman, co-founder and CTO of Octarine (acq VMWare) and co-founder of XIV (acq IBM); Noam Malali, AI and computer vision expert; and Bryan Barber, formerly VP Digital Initiatives at Warner Bros.
Voia’s app enables creators to dramatically upgrade the quality of their videos. The app employs advanced AI capabilities, producing visual effects with Hollywood quality. 100 million creatives are active on social video sharing platforms, like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. But as these platforms continue to grow, most creator videos still look like home movies. The gap between video quality on social networks, and the quality of music videos, TV ads and indie films is immense. The professional videos often have budgets exceeding $1 million, a large part of which goes into visual effects. Their production utilizes specialized 3D software requiring extensive expertise, are filmed using professional gear in a studio setting, and require massive compute time to render. Voia uses AI to enable creators to achieve the Hollywood look using only their iPhones.
Noam Malali, co-founder and head of AI says: “We are at the forefront of AI. The challenges of achieving the Hollywood look using AI, require that we push the limits of our AI algorithms, and that we build a multidisciplinary product to enable creators to produce realistic visual effects. We need to produce cinematic videos at near real time speeds, so that users don’t have to wait hours to see their final videos. We will continue to push the envelope of technologies that enable every creator to produce Hollywood quality.”
Avner Braverman, co-founder and CEO adds: “We founded Voia to bring Hollywood to every iPhone. We believe that when everyone can create such cinematic videos, we will see an explosion of creativity and engaging content in quantities and quality never before seen.”
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