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HeyGen
HeyGen makes AI video tools that let people and businesses create talking-avatar videos of themselves and translate videos into other languages.
What HeyGen does
HeyGen lets a user build a personal avatar from their own face and voice, then produce videos from a script without filming each time. It also offers hundreds of stock presenters, video translation with lip-sync, voice cloning and an AI video agent that drafts videos from a prompt. Individuals, marketers and companies use it for marketing, training, sales and social content.
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Products
- Personal and stock AI avatarsVideo presenters built from a user's own likeness or chosen from 500+ ready-made presenters.
- Video AgentAI agent that turns a prompt into a finished video.
- Video translation and HeyGen VoiceTranslates and dubs videos and provides text to speech and voice cloning.
How it uses AI
- Own avatar engines (Avatar III, IV and V) that animate a presenter from a script.
- Access to third-party generation models (for example Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) inside paid plans.
- Professional voice cloning and text to speech across 30+ languages on the free plan and more on paid plans.
Milestones
- Founded by Joshua Xu and Wayne Liang (originally under the name Surreal).
- $60M Series A led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation.
- Annual recurring revenue passes $200M while the company reports break-even cash flow.
Sources
- Exclusive: HeyGen's AI Video Reaches $200M In ARR, Without The Burn (opens in a new tab), Upstarts, 25 Jun 2026
- AI Video Startup HeyGen Valued at $500 Million in Funding Round (opens in a new tab), Bloomberg, 20 Jun 2024
- About HeyGen (opens in a new tab), HeyGen
- Pricing (opens in a new tab), HeyGen
- AI start-up HeyGen raises US$60 million after pivoting away from mainland China investors (opens in a new tab), South China Morning Post, Jun 2024
- HeyGen (opens in a new tab), Wikipedia