AI video-generation platform for avatars, localization, and marketing content
HeyGen offers AI avatar, video translation, and generative-video tools for marketing, sales, and localization workflows. Forbes selected it for the 2026 AI 50.
AI📍 Los Angeles, CAFounded 2022
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is HeyGen going public?
No. HeyGen is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is HeyGen's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for HeyGen. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has HeyGen filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for HeyGen.
Can you buy HeyGen stock?
No. HeyGen is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for HeyGen on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
CEO
Joshua Xu
Founded
2022
HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Employees
Undisclosed
Total Raised
$74M
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Forbes AI 50 profile · 5 mo ago
privateTotal raised $74M
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$1.39
Open interest
1
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Forbes AI 50 profile
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Apr 2026
Forbes AI 50
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for HeyGen — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-09-19. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▼ Hiring downtrend
-19% vs 2026-08
Open roles
17
via greenhouse
Product-build share
53%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
tightening
product-led hiring — 53% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
Open roles trending down; no tracked executive churn.
Counted from HeyGen's live job board as of 2026-09-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Joshua XuWayne Liang
Products
AI avatars
Video translation
Text-to-video generation
Marketing video workflows
Competitors
Synthesia · Runway · Tavus · Pika · Higgsfield
AIGenerative VideoForbes AI 50
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of recent date. Refreshed quarterly.