British AI startup Synthesia has surpassed a $4 billion valuation and will allow employees to sell shares, TechCrunch reported on Jan. 26 local time.
Synthesia has completed a $200 million Series E funding round. Participants included GV (formerly Google Ventures), Kleiner Perkins, Accel, NEA and Nvidia NVentures.
Synthesia provides corporate training solutions using AI avatars and has secured large companies such as Bosch, Merck and SAP as customers. Its annual recurring revenue has exceeded $100 million.
Synthesia is pushing to expand from AI-based video into AI agents and is developing AI agents that allow intuitive use of internal corporate knowledge. Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli said, "Advances in AI agents and the importance of corporate training are converging."
Chi-gyu Hwang
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