Tavus
API for personalized AI avatar videos and conversational digital humans
AI
📍 San Francisco, CA
Founded 2020
Current Valuation
Private
as of 2025-Q4
PRIVATE
Tavus is an AI research company and developer platform for generative video avatars. The company's API lets developers integrate state-of-the-art AI avatars into applications for sales outreach, localized marketing, e-learning, and now real-time conversational PALs (agentic AI humans). Powered by in-house models Phoenix-4, Sparrow-1, and Raven-1.
Company Profile
Last Round
Series B — $40M (Nov 2025) · Lead: CRV
Founders & Key People
Hassaan Raza
Investors
CRV · Scale Venture Partners · Sequoia Capital · Y Combinator · HubSpot Ventures · Flex Capital
Products
- AI Avatar API (Phoenix-4 facial rendering)
- PALs — agentic AI humans
- Sparrow-1 conversational timing model
- Raven-1 multimodal perception model
- Real-time video dubbing
Competitors
HeyGen · Synthesia · D-ID · Runway · Microsoft · Google
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Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2025-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.