Clipdrop
Headquarters
Paris, FranceFounded
2020Employees
1-10Funding
Acquired — $1.5MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.5/10Website
clipdrop.co/
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About Clipdrop
Clipdrop is an AI image editing platform founded in 2020 by Cyril Diagne, Jonathan Blanchet, and Damien Henry as InitML, a Paris-based startup. The team participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2021 cohort. InitML was acquired by Stability AI in February 2023, and Stability AI subsequently sold Clipdrop to marketing AI company Jasper in February 2024. The Clipdrop team continued operating from Paris after the acquisition.
The platform provides a suite of browser-based and API-accessible image editing tools, including background removal, object cleanup, image upscaling (up to 16x), text removal, image uncropping, and AI-powered relighting. Developers can integrate Clipdrop models directly into their products via the Clipdrop API. The platform supports Stable Diffusion XL for text-to-image generation.
InitML raised $1.5M in seed funding prior to the Stability AI acquisition in 2023. Jasper, which had raised $125M in a Series A round in 2022, acquired Clipdrop to expand its AI copilot capabilities for marketing teams into multimodal image creation. Terms of the Clipdrop acquisition were not disclosed. The Clipdrop team of fewer than 10 employees operates from Paris, France.
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Financials
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Products by Clipdrop
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Competitive Landscape
Who Clipdrop competes with, and how they differ.
Also Paris-founded and focused narrowly on product photography and background removal for e-commerce sellers via a mobile-first app, versus Clipdrop's broader multi-tool web suite and API.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
A mobile-first all-in-one photo and video editor with templates and social features on a freemium-subscription model, versus Clipdrop's narrower set of single-purpose AI edit tools plus a developer API.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Sells desktop upscaling and enhancement software under a one-time-license model aimed at professional photographers and videographers, versus Clipdrop's browser/API, credit-based upscaler for casual and developer users.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Bundles AI photo editing with graphic-design templates and collage tools aimed at marketers and hobbyists, whereas Clipdrop has no design-template layer and exposes each edit as a standalone tool and API endpoint.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Its background remover and Magic Studio tools are features inside a much larger presentation and design platform with 220M+ monthly users, versus Clipdrop's standalone, image-editing-only product.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewedA single-purpose background-removal API/tool (built by Kaleido AI, now owned by Canva) -- narrower than Clipdrop's multi-tool suite (cleanup, upscale, relight, text-to-image) but the closest head-to-head match on that one feature.
Company Timeline
Key milestones in Clipdrop's history, with sources.
- Acquisition
Jasper acquires Clipdrop from Stability AI -- price undisclosed
Jasper closed its acquisition of Clipdrop from Stability AI on February 20, 2024, for an undisclosed price, adding the image-editing platform to its enterprise marketing suite.
prnewswire.com - Acquisition
Stability AI acquires Init ML (Clipdrop) -- price undisclosed
Stability AI acquired Init ML, maker of Clipdrop, for an undisclosed price; Init ML continued as a standalone subsidiary and founder Cyril Diagne became VP of Innovation for Clipdrop.
voicebot.ai - Funding
Seed round -- $1.26M from Air Street Capital
Init ML raised a $1.26 million seed round from AI-focused venture firm Air Street Capital -- its only outside funding round before being acquired.
voicebot.ai - Founded
Init ML founded in Paris
Cyril Diagne, Damien Henry and Jonathan Blanchet, three former Google engineers, founded Init ML in Paris to build the Clipdrop image-editing suite.
voicebot.ai - Launch
Founder demos viral "AR Cut & Paste" prototype
Cyril Diagne shared a smartphone AR prototype that could scan a real-world object and paste it directly into desktop image-editing software; the viral demo led him to found Init ML two months later.
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