VEED
Headquarters
London, UKFounded
2018CEO / Founder
Sabba KeynejadEmployees
51-200Funding
Series A — $35MProducts
1 product listedAvg. AI Score
7.7/10Website
veed.io/
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About VEED
VEED is a browser-based video editing platform founded in 2018 by Sabba Keynejad and Tim Kurzweg, headquartered in London, UK. The company provides tools that allow users to edit video, generate subtitles, dub content into multiple languages, record screens, and create AI-generated talking head videos without requiring desktop software installation.
VEED's product suite targets marketers, solopreneurs, and social media content creators. Core features include automatic subtitle generation, video translation and dubbing, AI avatars, background removal, and a teleprompter tool. The platform operates on a freemium model with paid subscription tiers offering higher usage limits and additional features. It competes with tools such as Descript, Kapwing, and Adobe Express in the browser-based video editing segment.
VEED raised a $35 million Series A round in 2022, led by Craft Ventures, bringing its total external funding to that amount. The company had previously operated largely bootstrapped before that raise. As of available records, VEED employs between 51 and 200 people.
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Competitive Landscape
Who VEED competes with, and how they differ.
Kapwing is a browser-based collaborative video editor built around real-time multi-user editing ("Google Docs for video"); VEED overlaps closely on the same subtitle/caption toolset but pushes further into AI avatars, dubbing, and enterprise workflows.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
CapCut is ByteDance's free, mobile-first editor tied to TikTok's short-form ecosystem and monetized mainly through in-app purchases, versus VEED's browser-first B2B subscription model aimed at marketing teams.
2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
InVideo AI auto-generates full scripted videos from a text prompt using stock footage and AI voiceovers, while VEED centers on a manual timeline editor with AI features layered on top for users who want more control.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Synthesia is built specifically for AI-avatar presenter videos at enterprise scale (training, localization), whereas VEED offers avatars as one feature inside a broader general-purpose editing suite.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
HeyGen specializes in AI avatar generation and multilingual dubbing sold largely to sales and marketing teams, overlapping with VEED's own avatar and dubbing features but without VEED's general-purpose timeline editor.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Pictory automatically turns long-form content (blog posts, webinars, scripts) into short marketing videos, competing with VEED for the same content-repurposing marketer audience but with less manual editing control.
1 product reviewed on TopReviewedCompany Timeline
Key milestones in VEED's history, with sources.
- Launch
VEED open-sources OpenEdit, an agent-driven video editing pipeline
VEED released OpenEdit as a free, open-source (Apache-2.0 pipeline / PolyForm Shield renderer) command-line tool that lets AI coding agents (tested with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) edit, caption and render video without a GUI, composing scenes in HTML/CSS.
veed.io - Launch
VEED launches a Subtitle API for third-party platforms
VEED opened its subtitle-burning technology as a paid API ($0.10/minute) for other software platforms to embed, with seven early-access partners including Figma Weave and Creative Fabrica. The announcement stated VEED had reached 10M total users, 150 employees and $50M ARR.
veed.io - Funding
Series A — $35M led by Sequoia Capital
VEED raised $35 million in its first outside funding round, led solely by Sequoia Capital, after four years of bootstrapped growth. At announcement VEED had 1 million users and roughly $7M ARR.
techcrunch.com - Milestone
Sequoia Capital partner Luciana Lixandru appointed to VEED's board
UK Companies House records Luciana Maria Lixandru, a Sequoia Capital partner, appointed as a director of VEED Limited roughly two months before the Series A was publicly announced.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk - Milestone
VEED bootstraps from $0 to $1M ARR in 12 months
Exactly 12 months after its first paying customer, co-founder Sabba Keynejad announced VEED had crossed $83,333 MRR / $1M ARR, funded entirely by founder savings and contract work with no outside capital.
indiehackers.com - Launch
VEED introduces a paywall and lands its first paying customers
After a Y Combinator rejection for lacking revenue, the founders put VEED behind a paywall (starting at $5/user, raised to $10 within weeks), taking on their first 20 paying customers that same weekend.
veed.io - Founded
VEED Limited incorporated in London
VEED Limited (company no. 11264311) was incorporated in London, UK, with co-founders Sabba Benjamin Keynejad and Timur Mamedov appointed as directors the same day.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk
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