Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 2, 2026
Synthesia Ltd. is a London-based private software company founded in 2017 that provides an enterprise AI-video and visual-communications platform. It helps organizations create, localize, manage, and publish training, onboarding, sales-enablement, marketing, and internal-communications videos using AI avatars, synthetic voices, translation, collaboration, analytics, and increasingly interactive AI agents.
Primary product
Synthesia AI Video Platform / Synthesia 2.0: text-to-video creation with 240+ AI avatars, voice generation, screen recording, dubbing and translation, interactive avatars, role-play coaching, collaboration, brand controls, analytics, and SCORM/LMS integrations.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
20 Triton Street, Regent’s Place, London NW1 3BF, United Kingdom
Team size
500–700; public sources variously report 500+, approximately 600–700, and 654
Work style
Flexible
Industry
75 jobs at Synthesia
Software development
Sub-industry
Enterprise generative AI, synthetic media, AI video, learning and development technology
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage venture / Series E; privately held
Total raised
$536.6M
Latest round
Series E · Jan 2026
Latest amount
$200M
Jan 2026 · GV (Google Ventures)
Strategic investment / venture round
Apr 2025 · Adobe Ventures
Jan 2025 · New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Jun 2023 · Accel
Dec 2021 · Kleiner Perkins
Apr 2021 · FirstMark
Apr 2019 · LDV Capital
Oct 2017 · Mark Cuban
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
COO & Co-Founder
Chief Technology Officer
SVP of Engineering
VP of Product
Chief Revenue Officer
Head of Corporate Affairs and Policy
Laura Gonzalez
Chief of Staff and Head of People
Gabe Stern
General Counsel
Lourdes Agapito
Co-Founder; Professor of 3D Vision at UCL
Co-Founder; Professor and AI researcher
Vice President, Solutions & Services
SVP of Engineering
Founders
Co-founder
Synthesia presents itself as global, people-first, high-ownership, ambitious, curious, and fast-moving. Its careers material emphasizes shipping meaningful engineering work frequently, limited meeting/Scrum overhead, learning investment, and a strong international workforce; approximately 80% of London-HQ staff are described as immigrants. The company says 10% of its team is dedicated to AI safety and ethics.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
Limited
Compensation
Public signals include competitive compensation, PTO, learning budgets, and stock options. One public Europe engineering listing cited a base salary starting around EUR/GBP/CHF 100,000 plus stock options. The same listing said visa sponsorship may be possible for candidates already based in the UK/EU, but relocation sponsorship was unavailable; compensation varies materially by location and level.
Benefits
Pricing
Free plan plus recurring monthly/annual self-serve subscriptions and custom-priced annual Enterprise contracts. Public pricing shows Starter at $29/month, Creator at $89/month, and Enterprise with custom pricing; usage is metered through shared credits for many AI features.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $100M–$150M annual recurring revenue/revenue signal. Synthesia reported surpassing $100M ARR in 2025; CNBC reported approximately $150M ARR in January 2026. This is an estimate, not audited public revenue.
Estimated monthly visits
2.8M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
TechCrunch · Jul 2026
Synthesia launched Roleplay Sessions, an interactive training product in which employees practice sales, management, and customer-service conversations with an AI avatar that responds, coaches, and scores performance. The product is positioned as a move from video generation toward measurable performance training.
Synthesia · Apr 2026
Synthesia announced new or expanded offices in Austin, Berlin, Paris, and Zurich, more than $25M of 2026 local-expansion investment, and plans to grow headcount by more than 70%; it cited tripled $100K-plus contracts and more than 140% net revenue retention.
Synthesia · Jan 2026
The company announced a GV-led $200M Series E at a $4B valuation, with participation from new investors Evantic and Hedosophia and existing investors including NVentures, Accel, Kleiner Perkins, NEA, PSP Growth, Air Street, FirstMark, and MMC.
TechCrunch · Jan 2026
Reports the Series E, details the secondary sale for employees, and notes new investors Evantic and Hedosophia alongside existing backers.
TechCrunch · Jan 2026
TechCrunch reported that the Series E included a structured employee secondary sale facilitated with Nasdaq, while Synthesia remained private; it also reported more than 500 employees and the company’s expansion toward AI agents.