Mint · Sep 2025
Profiles the Agarwal siblings, their San Francisco Bay Area base, and Koyal’s audio-to-video concept.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Koyal is a Y Combinator F25 agentic AI filmmaking platform that turns scripts or audio into personalized, cinematic videos with consistent characters and storylines, consent-based identity verification (CHARCHA), and natural-language scene editing. The company appears to be focused on creators plus B2B media and entertainment workflows, with paid pilots and public beta usage.
Primary product
Agentic AI filmmaking platform for audio-to-video and script-to-video generation
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
10-20 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI video generation / multimedia processing
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
India (distributed team; public posts reference Mumbai and Delhi)
Business model
B2B SaaS
usage-based pay-per-use credits
freemium beta
enterprise custom pricing
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Oct 2025 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Founder & CTO
Head of India - Product & Partnerships
Founding Product Designer
Work & culture
Public evidence points to a research-driven, founder-led, fast-shipping culture centered on creator empowerment, safety/consent, and entertainment-industry pilots; the team is distributed across the US and India.
Compensation
No verified public compensation bands were found.
Product & market
Pricing
Pay-per-use credit model with a free tier and standard, pro, and enterprise pricing; public TOS lists Free Tier (45 seconds), Standard ($0.50/second), Pro ($0.90/second), and Enterprise custom pricing.
Differentiators
- —Audio-first workflow from script or audio to video
- —Consistent characters and storylines
- —Consent-based identity verification via CHARCHA
- —Natural-language scene editing
- —Orchestration across 40+ models
- —Multilingual script-to-audio-to-video
- —Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement
- —Camera-less filmmaking workflow
- —Entertainment and media production focus
Technology
OpenCV
AMP
CHARCHA consent/verification protocol
multimodal AI generation models
audio-to-video generation
natural-language editing
agentic lip-sync
character consistency systems
model orchestration across 40+ models
Customers
creators
artists
musicians
podcasters
production houses
music labels
Universal Music
T-Series
Maddock Entertainment
Collective Artists Network
Government of India
University of Southern California
Narayana Group
PhysicsWallah
22 YC companies
Competitors
Runway
Pika
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$100,000 - $500,000
Estimated monthly visits
6.5K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Newsbytes · Sep 2025
Describes Koyal’s beta launch and its positioning as an AI platform for cinematic video generation from audio.
Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute · Sep 2025
CMU highlighted Koyal’s public launch, the CHARCHA consent protocol, and the founders’ CMU background.
The Tribune / ANI · May 2025
Announces a partnership to expand Koyal’s B2B adoption across creators, artists, production houses, and media companies.
The Tribune / ANI · May 2025
Covers Koyal’s WAVES 2025 debut and its use in music video creation with major artists.
Jobs and careers at Koyal
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