Koyal
Koyal is a YC Fall 2025 (F25) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 5.
About Koyal
Summary
Koyal builds an agentic AI filmmaking platform that converts scripts or audio into fully produced video stories, replacing manual animation, editing, and lip-sync work done by video production teams. Music labels, podcasts, and production houses use it to generate personalized, multilingual music videos and narrative content at scale. The platform covers script-to-audio-to-video in one pipeline, with state-of-the-art lip-sync, dynamic character movement, and multi-character consistency.
Business model
Paid pilots with enterprise media clients, plus a public self-serve beta.
Go-to-market
Global music labels, podcast networks, and film production houses are the primary buyers, reached through direct enterprise pilots; individual creators and smaller teams can access the product through a self-serve public beta at beta.koyal.ai.
From the Y Combinator listing
Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform
Koyal is an Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. We’re a team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta, with experience in AI video generation. https://koyal.ai builds directly upon our published research at the AI conference NeurIPS in December. We’ve been covered in the international press for our patented secure personalization protocol CHARCHA: the genAI captcha. Announcement: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965866965425348687 Demo: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965137062119752099 We currently have paid pilots with the biggest global music labels, podcasts and production houses, and just launched our public beta at beta.koyal.ai We recently concluded a pilot with Universal Music and T-Series (world’s largest music label) alongside Bollywood production houses like Maddock Entertainment, and Collective Artists Network! As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views! We've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.
Facts
- Consumer / Consumer -> Content
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 5
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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