Synthesia

About Synthesia

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Synthesia

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

SynthesiaAI Video Generation

Create AI-powered videos with a digital avatar in minutes

Free7.7/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Synthesia

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Synthesia's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 3.8 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 Synthesia competes with, and how they differ.

HeyGen8.0/10

HeyGen targets a broader mix of marketers and solo creators with a lower-cost self-serve plan and fast avatar/voice cloning, while Synthesia leans harder into enterprise compliance, custom avatar production, and large-scale L&D deployments.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

D-ID7.9/10

D-ID sells its talking-avatar technology primarily as a developer API/SDK for embedding avatars into other products, whereas Synthesia is a full self-serve SaaS studio built for non-technical corporate video creators.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Colossyan7.7/10

Colossyan focuses narrowly on corporate learning and development video at a smaller scale than Synthesia, competing most directly for L&D training budget rather than Synthesia's broader marketing and internal-comms use cases.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Tavus7.6/10

Tavus is API-first and built for personalized, interactive video at scale (e.g. one-to-one sales outreach with real-time conversational avatars), overlapping with Synthesia's newer Interactive Avatar feature more than its core batch-produced training video business.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Synthesia's history, with sources.

1. Oct 29, 2025Funding

   Series E — $200M raise values Synthesia at $4B

   Synthesia raises $200M led by GV with Nvidia and Accel participating, roughly doubling its valuation to $4B as the platform approaches 90% Fortune 100 adoption.

   forbes.com
2. Oct 23, 2025Milestone

   Rejects $3B Adobe acquisition offer

   Synthesia turns down a reported $3B acquisition approach from Adobe, choosing to remain independent as a standalone unicorn.

   thetimes.com
3. Apr 15, 2025Partnership

   Adobe takes strategic stake in Synthesia

   Adobe invests in Synthesia as part of a strategic partnership around AI-generated corporate video, deepening ties between the two companies.

   cnbc.com
4. Jan 15, 2025Funding

   Series D — $180M led by NEA, valuation doubles to $2.1B

   Synthesia raises $180M in a Series D led by New Enterprise Associates, with World Innovation Lab, Atlassian Ventures and PSP Growth joining; valuation doubles to $2.1B and the company reports over 60,000 customers and 400 employees.

   siliconangle.com
5. Apr 25, 2024Launch

   Launches expressive AI avatars

   Nvidia-backed Synthesia unveils AI avatars capable of conveying human emotion generated directly from text, expanding its enterprise video platform.

   cnbc.com
6. Jun 14, 2023Funding

   Series C — $90M led by Accel, reaches $1B unicorn valuation

   Synthesia raises a $90M Series C led by Accel with new investor Nvidia (via NVentures) participating, valuing the company at $1B and bringing total funding to $156.6M.

   techcrunch.com
7. Dec 8, 2021Funding

   Series B — $50M led by Kleiner Perkins

   Synthesia raises $50M in a Series B led by Kleiner Perkins with GV and FirstMark Capital participating, bringing total funding to $66.5M.

   venturebeat.com
8. Apr 20, 2021Funding

   Series A — $12.5M led by FirstMark

   Synthesia closes a $12.5M Series A led by FirstMark Capital to expand its AI video generation platform.

   techcrunch.com
9. Apr 25, 2019Funding

   Seed round — $3.1M led by LDV Capital

   Synthesia raises a $3.1M seed round led by LDV Capital, with Mark Cuban, MMC Ventures and Seedcamp participating, following its November 2018 stealth launch.

   techcrunch.com
10. Nov 9, 2018Launch

    First public demo on BBC's Click

    Synthesia's synthetic video technology debuts publicly on BBC's Click programme, showing presenter Matthew Amroliwala speaking multiple languages via AI-generated video.

    bbc.co.uk
11. 2017Founded

    Synthesia founded in London

    Victor Riparbelli, Steffen Tjerrild, Matthias Niessner and Lourdes Agapito co-found Synthesia, an AI video synthesis startup spun out of research at UCL, Cambridge, Stanford and TUM.

    synthesia.io