AI Landscape / Content, Video & Voice Generation
Descript
Video and podcast editing driven by text and AI.
Company profile
Descript sells an AI video and audio editor that uses text-based editing, combining recording, transcription, editing and publishing in one tool. Descript website
It serves podcast and social-video creators and businesses making marketing, sales and training content; reported customers include Shopify, MasterClass, Headspace and NPR podcasts. boringbusinessnerd.com
- Founded
- 2017
- Founders
- Andrew Mason
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Chief executive
- Andrew Mason
- Employees
- Approximately 100-200
- Ownership
- Not publicly reported
- Total funding
- Not publicly reported
- Latest funding round
- Not publicly reported
- Valuation
- $550M
- Revenue
- Not publicly reported
Drawn from Wikidata, Wikipedia, the company's own site and news and web sources; each figure links to its source. Researched Oct 19, 2026.
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