D-ID

About D-ID

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by D-ID

All products by D-ID reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

D-IDAI Video Generation

AI video avatars and real-time digital humans in 120+ languages

From $6/mo7.9/10

How Our Review Panel Scores D-ID

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed D-ID's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.8 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who D-ID competes with, and how they differ.

HeyGen8.0/10

HeyGen is built around fast, templated avatar-video creation and multilingual dubbing for marketers and creators, while D-ID's chat.D-ID product targets real-time, two-way conversational avatars for enterprise support and sales.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Synthesia7.7/10

Synthesia focuses on corporate training and e-learning video generated from a large stock-avatar library and script input, a narrower use case than D-ID's real-time conversational and API-driven avatar products.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Tavus7.6/10

Tavus is a developer-first API for building real-time conversational digital twins and video agents, directly overlapping with D-ID's chat.D-ID real-time avatar product but without D-ID's self-service Creative Reality Studio for content creators.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Colossyan7.7/10

Colossyan is a London-based tool purpose-built for L&D and enablement video with built-in real-time translation, a narrower vertical focus than D-ID's broader enterprise avatar and content-creation product line.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in D-ID's history, with sources.

1. Sep 16, 2025Acquisition

   D-ID acquires simpleshow, an AI explainer-video platform

   D-ID announced its acquisition of simpleshow, an AI-based explainer-video platform serving over 1,500 corporate clients in more than 70 countries, to combine real-time avatar technology with simpleshow's video-creation capabilities. Deal terms were undisclosed and completion was expected in Q4 2025.

   finance.yahoo.com
2. August 2023Partnership

   D-ID launches chat.D-ID, a conversational avatar product built on Azure OpenAI Service

   D-ID built chat.D-ID, combining its digital avatars with Azure OpenAI Service (GPT-4) and Azure Text-to-Speech for two-way conversational agents; the product handled over 750,000 users in its first three months.

   microsoft.com
3. Sep 19, 2022Launch

   D-ID launches Creative Reality Studio self-service video platform

   D-ID launched Creative Reality Studio, a self-service platform letting users bring a photo to life and generate presenter-led video content with AI avatars from a single image.

   d-id.com
4. Mar 22, 2022Funding

   Series B — $25M led by Macquarie Capital

   D-ID closed a $25 million Series B round led by Macquarie Capital, with Pitango, AXA Venture Partners, OurCrowd, OIF, Maverick and Marubeni participating, bringing total funding to $48 million.

   prnewswire.com
5. Nov 9, 2021Partnership

   D-ID and MyHeritage expand partnership with multi-million-dollar deal

   D-ID and MyHeritage announced an expanded multi-million-dollar partnership to develop new AI features for historical photos, building on the viral success of Deep Nostalgia.

   prnewswire.com
6. February 2021Milestone

   MyHeritage launches Deep Nostalgia, powered by D-ID Live Portrait technology

   MyHeritage released Deep Nostalgia, a feature that animates faces in old photos using D-ID's licensed Live Portrait technology; it went viral, making the MyHeritage app the most-downloaded free app in the US and UK within days.

   blog.myheritage.com
7. May 27, 2020Funding

   Series A — $13.5M led by AXA Venture Partners

   D-ID raised a $13.5 million Series A round led by AXA Venture Partners, with Y Combinator, Hyundai Motor Company, Pitango, OMRON Ventures, Maverick Ventures and others participating, bringing total funding to $17.5 million. At the time D-ID's product was privacy software that removed biometric data from images and video.

   crowdfundinsider.com
8. Jan 22, 2018Funding

   Seed round — $4M led by Pitango Venture Capital

   D-ID, a Y Combinator (S17) alumnus, raised a $4 million seed round led by Pitango Venture Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Fenox Venture Capital and Maverick Ventures.

   prnewswire.com
9. 2017Founded

   D-ID founded in Tel Aviv

   D-ID was founded in 2017 by CEO Gil Perry, COO Sella Blondheim and CTO Eliran Kuta in Tel Aviv, initially building facial de-identification technology to protect images from facial-recognition software; the company later pivoted the same core algorithms to generative AI avatar video.

   prnewswire.com