AI Landscape / Content, Video & Voice Generation
Tavus
AI video and real-time conversational video agents.
Company profile
Tavus builds interactive AI avatars called Personified Application Layers, or PALs, and foundational models that enable them to see, hear and respond face-to-face in real time. Tavus websitetavus.io
It offers an API, a no-code PAL Maker and enterprise solutions for building and deploying conversational video experiences. Tavus website
- Founded
- 2020
- Founders
- Hassaan Raza and Quinn Favret
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Chief executive
- Hassaan Raza
- Employees
- Not publicly reported
- Ownership
- Private
- Total funding
- Not publicly reported
- Latest funding round
- Series B, $40M, November 2025, led by CRV
- Valuation
- $256.0M
- 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.
Latest news
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