Layoff
Mar 2025D-ID laid off 22 employees, described as about a quarter of its workforce, mostly in Israel, as part of an efficiency drive shortly after a strategic Microsoft partnership announcement.
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Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
D-ID is a generative AI company that helps organizations create and deploy photorealistic digital humans, avatar videos, and interactive visual AI agents for communication, training, marketing, sales, and customer experience.
Primary product
AI-generated video creation platform with digital avatars and visual AI agents (Creative Reality / D-ID Studio + API)
Founded
2017
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States
Team size
100-150
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Generative AI video / digital humans / AI avatar platform
Offices
Tel Aviv, Israel
Berlin, Germany
United States
Business model
SaaS subscriptions
API usage-based access
Enterprise contracts
Funding
Stage
Series B
Total raised
$48M
Latest round
Series B · Mar 2022
Latest amount
$25M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder, CEO
Karsten Boehrs
President & COO
Dr. Sandra Boehrs
CMO
Sella Blondheim
Co-Founder, CSO
Torsten Friedrich
CRO
Co-Founder, CTO
CFO
SVP R&D
Susanne Ilemann
SVP Marketing Strategy & BI
VP Product
Work & culture
Described as Creative Reality™, with a focus on building human-like communication experiences through digital humans and interactive AI. Careers page highlights a hybrid workplace and office culture in Tel Aviv.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public evidence mentions competitive salaries, but no specific compensation bands or equity details were found.
Benefits
Hybrid work model
Competitive salaries
Weekly happy hours
Product & market
Pricing
Subscription plans plus API credits/usage-based pricing; enterprise pricing via sales/demo.
Differentiators
- —Photorealistic digital humans and expressive visual agents
- —Real-time, low-latency interaction via WebRTC
- —Multilingual support (120+ languages)
- —API-first architecture for embedding into products and workflows
- —Enterprise security/compliance certifications (ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, 42001, SOC 2)
- —Large developer community (280,000+ developers)
- —Integrated video translate and agentic video workflows
- —Acquisition of simpleshow broadened enterprise video storytelling capabilities
Technology
API-first platform
WebRTC
MCP
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML
Google Analytics/Firebase
Mixpanel
Salesforce
HubSpot
Zendesk
Customers
PepsiCo
Fidelity
J.P. Morgan
SoftBank
NTT
Deutsche Telekom
PwC
Deloitte
Burda Media
AXA Insurance
Gameloft
CreatorUp
Hartmann Group
Rafael
SIU School of Medicine
Competitors
Synthesia
Canva
Black Forest Labs
Dialpad
Decagon
Observe.AI
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Signals & risks
Acquisition
Jan 2025D-ID acquired Berlin-based video startup simpleshow to unify digital human platform capabilities with real-time interaction.
SourceLatest news
D-ID Blog · Apr 2026
Explains a LiveKit plug-in that embeds D-ID avatars into real-time AI agent pipelines as a visual layer.
Yahoo Finance / PR Newswire · Mar 2026
Announces V4 Expressive Visual Agents, available to 1,500 enterprise customers and millions of subscribers, with real-time LLM-connected conversations and pricing starting at $5.90/month.
D-ID Blog · Mar 2026
Product launch describing emotionally intelligent, real-time two-way conversations, WebRTC delivery, and structured conversation logs for analytics and QA.
D-ID Blog · Jan 2026
Describes major API docs upgrades, an MCP server, and quickstarts for Agents, Agent Sessions, Video Translate, and Knowledge (RAG).
D-ID Blog · Sep 2024
Announces mobile availability for Video Translate, which adds lip-synced multilingual video translation.
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