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Claybird’s public identity is inconsistent: claybird.com redirects, the accessible LinkedIn company page uses a different slug/website, and some current founder profiles emphasize Antigen instead of Claybird.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Claybird appears to be a San Francisco-based YC F25 startup building an AI-native video advertising agent that plans, generates, edits, and publishes video ads; public web presence is fragmented, with claybird.com redirecting and some current profiles pointing to alternate Claybird-branded pages, so a few operational details remain partially uncertain.
Primary product
AI agent for end-to-end video ad production
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Advertising Services
Sub-industry
AI video advertising / adtech
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
SaaS
Managed services
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed VC · Dec 2025
Dec 2025 · Alumni Ventures
Oct 2025
People & investors
Work & culture
Public materials emphasize speed, studio-quality output, and human-in-the-loop creative QA; no formal employee benefits/culture page was found.
Compensation
A syndicated Infrastructure Engineer posting showed $300K–$350K/year; no broader compensation bands were publicly available.
Product & market
Pricing
Subscription/SaaS with managed video-production services
Differentiators
- —Plans, generates, edits, and publishes ads end-to-end
- —Claims studio-quality output in under 72 hours
- —Uses human-in-the-loop review and creative-direction workflows
- —Combines multiple AI models/agents rather than a single generator
- —Targets personalized retargeting and rapid campaign iteration
Technology
Veo
Sora
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs)
generative AI models
AI agents
Customers
Coca-Cola
Walmart
Eight Sleep
Delve
Mercor
Competitors
HeyGen
Arcads
Creati AI
Scale & contact
Signals & risks
Other
May 2026The company depends on rapidly evolving video-generation models and faces quality/consistency risk; third-party coverage notes challenges such as physics, logo fidelity, and brand-specific correctness in AI video.
SourceLatest news
Startuply.vc · May 2026
Long-form feature describing Claybird as a San Francisco startup automating the full video-ad pipeline, citing early customers such as Coca-Cola, Walmart, and Eight Sleep and discussing product risks around AI video quality and consistency.
Fondo · Feb 2026
Launch write-up describing Claybird as a Lovable-for-AI-ads product that collaborates on scripts, generates shots with Veo/Sora, and edits them into a studio-quality ad.
LinkedIn · Nov 2025
Saad Jamal said Claybird was hiring and described the company as an AI video ads agency that launches campaigns in days instead of weeks, while seeking Creative Directors.
LinkedIn / Y Combinator · Oct 2025
Y Combinator introduced Claybird as an agent that plans, generates, and edits studio-quality video ads for marketers using Veo and Sora.
LinkedIn · Sep 2025
Abdullah Nauman announced he was starting Claybird with Saad Jamal and described the product as an AI agent for short-form video.
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