D-ID

D-ID is a generative AI company that produces digital humans, converting still photos and text into talking avatars and video presenters. Founded in 2017 by Gil Perry, Eliran Kuta and Sella Blondheim, veterans of the Israel Defense Forces' 8200 intelligence unit, the company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. It originally built anti-facial-recognition technology to protect photos from being scanned, then pivoted to synthetic media as generative models matured.

The company's core offering is Creative Reality Studio, along with an API, AI avatar and video-translation tools, and more recent agentic video products for interactive on-screen characters. D-ID says its platform has generated more than 200 million avatar videos and is used by a developer community exceeding 280,000. Customers cited by the company include PepsiCo, Fidelity, J.P. Morgan, SoftBank, NTT, Deutsche Telekom, PwC and Deloitte.

D-ID has raised about $48 million across several rounds, including a $13.5 million Series A led by AXA Venture Partners in 2020 and a $25 million Series B in March 2022, with backers such as Pitango and Y Combinator. The company employs roughly 50 to 200 people. In March 2025 it cut about a quarter of its workforce shortly after a Microsoft partnership, and in September 2025 it acquired German explainer-video firm simpleshow.