Lightricks

About Lightricks

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Lightricks

All products by Lightricks reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

LTX StudioAI Video Generation

AI video production for creators and teams

From $12/mo7.5/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Lightricks

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Lightricks's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.0 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

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

Competitive Landscape

Who Lightricks competes with, and how they differ.

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Higgsfield AI8.1/10

Higgsfield focuses on cinematic camera-motion controls and short-form generative video effects for social content, whereas LTX Studio positions itself as an end-to-end pre-production and storytelling tool covering scripting, storyboarding, and shot generation.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

invideo7.6/10

invideo targets marketers and content teams with template-driven, script-to-video generation for ads and explainers, a more templated and business-output-oriented workflow than LTX Studio's director-style scene and character consistency tools.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Pictory.ai7.2/10

Pictory converts long-form content (articles, webinars, podcasts) into short repurposed video clips, a repurposing-focused use case distinct from LTX Studio's generative narrative filmmaking approach.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Kapwing7.3/10

Kapwing is a browser-based editor with AI-assisted subtitling, trimming, and simple generation features aimed at general video editing tasks, lighter-weight than LTX Studio's full AI-driven production pipeline.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Runway7.5/10

Runway is a lower-profile-relative-to-incumbents but technically comparable AI-core video generation platform offering frame-level control, motion brushes, and model fine-tuning aimed at professional filmmakers, closely matching LTX Studio's generative video and creative-control focus.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Lightricks's history, with sources.

1. Feb 23, 2026Milestone

   Lightricks splits into separate LTX and Facetune units

   Lightricks splits its consumer app business (Facetune, ~$300M/yr revenue) from its generative-video unit LTX, giving each its own leadership and P&L; co-founder Zeev Farbman leads LTX while Asaf Porat (ex-Outbrain) becomes CEO of the Facetune unit. The move comes with a cut of 75 jobs (17% of staff).

   wincountry.com
2. Nov 22, 2024Launch

   Lightricks releases LTX Video, its first open-source video model

   Lightricks releases LTXV, a 2B-parameter open-source text-to-video diffusion-transformer model that generates 5 seconds of video in about 4 seconds, positioning foundation models as a commodity while monetizing the surrounding tooling.

   venturebeat.com
3. Jul 1, 2024Milestone

   Lightricks cuts 12% of workforce to refocus on generative AI

   Lightricks eliminates 70 of its roughly 600 positions, redirecting resources from its legacy consumer apps toward generative AI B2B products and hiring dozens of AI specialists.

   timesofisrael.com
4. Feb 28, 2024Launch

   Lightricks launches LTX Studio, an AI filmmaking platform

   Lightricks launches LTX Studio, a web-based generative AI tool that turns text prompts into scripts, storyboards and consistent-character video scenes; built from scratch as the company's first primarily web-based product and its most ambitious AI bet to date.

   siliconangle.com
5. Sep 19, 2021Funding

   Lightricks raises $130M Series D at $1.8B valuation

   Lightricks raises $130M in a Series D round led by Insight Partners and Hanaco VC, lifting its valuation to $1.8B and its total funding raised to $335M.

   lightricks.com
6. Jul 31, 2019Funding

   Lightricks raises $135M Series C, becomes Israeli unicorn at $1B valuation

   Lightricks raises $135M led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, becoming Israel's latest unicorn at a $1B valuation on the strength of Facetune and Enlight, with more than 180M downloads and nearly 3M paying subscribers.

   venturebeat.com
7. Nov 19, 2018Funding

   Lightricks raises $60M Series B

   Lightricks raises $60M led by Insight Venture Partners to fund growth of its Facetune and Enlight photo/video editing apps.

   venturebeat.com
8. Aug 12, 2015Funding

   Lightricks raises $10M in its first outside funding round

   Lightricks, then a 30-person, already-profitable team behind Facetune and Enlight, raises $10M led by Carmel Ventures, having already sold over 5 million app copies on a paid (not freemium) model.

   techcrunch.com
9. January 2013Founded

   Lightricks founded in Jerusalem

   Zeev Farbman, Nir Pochter, Yaron Inger, Amit Goldstein and Itai Tsiddon found Lightricks out of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to build consumer imaging tools using computer graphics and machine learning.

   en.wikipedia.org