AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing
About a month after MoonvalleyA startup in Los Angeles that AI-tools develops for making videos, said that it obtained $ 43 million in new financing, the company has collected more, according to a submit With the sec.
The submission, submitted on Thursday, reveals that Moonvalley has actually landed (so far) around $ 53 million from a group of 14 unprecedented investors.
The submission indicates that this is an extra $ 10 million in cash, instead of a whole new round. It brings the total of the company to about $ 124 million, estimates PitchBook, following Moonvalley’s $ 70 million seed round last November. Moonvalley refused to comment.
The broad availability of tools to build video drivers has led to such an explosion of providers that the space is saturated. Startups such as Runway, Light Tricks, Genmo, Pika, Higgsfield, Kling, and LumaAs well as technical giants such as OpenAi, Alibaba and Google, models with a fast clip. In many cases, little distinguishes one model of the other.
Moonvalley’s Marey model, built in collaboration with a New AI Animation Studio Asteria called, offers adjustment options such as fine -grained camera and movement controls and can generate “HD” clips for 30 seconds. Moonvalley claims that it is also a lower risk than some other models with a video generation from a legal perspective.
But where Moonvalley tries to distinguish itself – hence the high VC interest – is about the data it uses to train his models, as well as the guarantees in his tools for making videos.
Many generative video startups train models on public data, some of which are always protected by copyright. These companies claim that Fair use Doctrin protects practice, but that has not stopped any rights holders of submitting complaints And the submission of stops and everything.
Moonvalley says it works with partners to handle license schemes and package videos in datasets that the company then buys. The approach is comparable to that of Bria and Adobe, the last of which is obtained for training of makers through its own Adobe Stock platform.
Moonvalley also makes an interface for his model. The software of the company, which has not yet viewed it publicly, has unveiled Storyboarding and “Granular” Clip adjustment tools, Moonvalley’s co-founders in Recent interviews. Marey can generate videos from not only text prompts, but also from sketches, photos and other video clips, claims Moon valley.
Naeem Talukdar, who previously led product growth in Zapier, founded Moonvalley with former DeepMind scientists Mateusz Malinowski and Mik Binkowski. John Thomas joined Moonvalley’s COO – he and Talukdar had a startup, designed a few years ago. Moonvalley also has Asteria Head Bryn Mooser as co-founder.
Many artists and makers are understandably on their care for video drivers, because they are in danger of increasing the film and television industry. A 2024 study Commissioned by the Animation Guild, a trade union that represents Hollywood animators and cartoonists, estimates that more than 100,000 American film, television and animation jobs will be disrupted by AI in 2026.
Moonvalley plans to allow makers to remove their content from his models, to have customers removed their data at any time and to offer compensation policy to protect its users against copyright challenges.
In contrast to some “unfiltered” video models that easily insert the parable of a person into clips, Moonvalley also connects to build guardrails around his tools. Just like Sora from OpenAi, the Moonvalley models will block certain content, such as NSFW sentences, and will not allow users to ask them to generate videos of specific people or celebrities.
“We founded Moonvalley to make generative video technology that works for filmmakers and creative professionals,” wrote Moonvalley in a Blog post In March. “That means tackling fear and distrust, as well as solving technical problems that prevent generative AI from being a realistic tool for professional production.”
