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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

IPO Outlookprivate

Is Tavus going public?
No. Tavus is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Tavus' valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Tavus. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Tavus filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Tavus.
Who are Tavus' investors?
Tavus' investors include CRV, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, HubSpot Ventures, Flex Capital.
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.
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

CEO
Hassaan Raza
Founded
2020
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Total Raised
$64.2M
Last Round
Series B — $40M (Nov 2025) · Lead: CRV
IPO Status
none

Fundraising Status

Series B · $40M · 9 mo ago
noneTotal raised $64.2M

Latest Funding Round

RoundAmountDateLead InvestorPost-Money
Series B$40MNov 2025CRV

Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML

No verified Hugging Face organization found for Tavus — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-08-19. Re-checked weekly.

Talent Signal

Hiring trend
First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
15
via ashby
Product-build share
67%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
heavy product build — 67% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 4 of 15 open roles are engineering.
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by month15Aug '26
Open roles by function
Open roles by functionEngineering4Research2Design2Marketing2Sales & GTM2Data & ML1Other1Product1
product-building   go-to-market / G&A
Customer EngineerAI Researcher (Multimodal Audio/Video Generation)Data Engineer /ML OpsBrand & Product DesignerForward Deployed EngineerSoftware Engineer, Infrastructure
Counted from Tavus's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.

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
b2bAIAI-avatarsgenerative-videoYCdeveloper-platform
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.