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Synthesia

20 statements across 2 episodes · 13 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 24, 2021 by Victor Riparbelli · said 65 times in 9 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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brought up most by Matt Turck (39), Victor Riparbelli (21), Matthias Niessner (1), Des Traynor (1), Aman Kabeer (1)

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Everything said about Synthesia, oldest first

May 24, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Riparbelli: Synthesia is working to generate custom video avatars from a single image
“We're working on getting that down to just a single image.”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 25:01 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Riparbelli: Synthesia has close to 200 custom avatars on its platform
“We already have, I think, close to 200 custom avatars on the platform so far”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 24:49 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Synthesia has generated over one million videos across 40 countries
“Since our launch, we have generated more than one million videos and served thousands of customers in more than 40 countries.”
Synthesia AI Avatar May 24, 2021 ▶ 1:15 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Riparbelli: Synthesia supports 55 languages for synthetic video generation
“We support 55 languages right now”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 19:39 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Synthesia shares data with major tech firms to build deepfake detectors
“Both Synthesia as a company and Matthias is working with a lot of the larger companies by sharing data and helping them with effort to build these sort of deep fake detection tools.”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 18:05 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Synthesia to launch V1 of its video generation API
“The API part of it, of which we're launching our V-One of the platform in a couple of weeks, will enable a whole new space for opportunities, most of which we probably haven't really thought of yet, right?”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 13:26 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Riparbelli: Video and media production will shift from cameras to code
“So the big idea that Synthesia is built around, right, is that video production and media production in general is going to go from something that we record with cameras and microphone to something we code with computers.”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 11:59 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021
Assertion Partly supported
Riparbelli: Creating a custom Synthesia avatar requires three to four minutes of footage
“And the onboarding process is roughly three to four minutes of footage.”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 24:58 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021
Disclosure
Synthesia aims to enable video creation without cameras, actors, or studios
“Creating technology that would make it easy to create video for everyone and without having to deal with cameras and actors and studio equipment every time you want to create a video.”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 7:53 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021 neutral
Insight
Riparbelli: Synthetic video replaces enterprise text, not traditional camera production
“Our platform is not really a replacement for traditional video production as you know it with like a camera, right? It's actually more replacement for text.”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 9:40 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
May 24, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Riparbelli: 80% of Synthesia's enterprise clients use custom avatars
“One which is already used by roughly 80% of our enterprise clients today, which is that you can create a real avatar of yourself.”
Victor Riparbelli May 24, 2021 ▶ 14:20 Fireside Chat: Victor Riparbelli (Founder & CEO, Synthesia) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jul 19, 2023 bullish
Disclosure
Riparbelli: Synthesia aims to eventually replace physical video production
“We are building technology to eventually replace the entire physical production process.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 5:39 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
Jul 19, 2023 positive
Insight
Riparbelli: AI video is a replacement for text, not video production
“These types of videos Essentially became not a replacement for video production, but a replacement for text.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 9:20 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
Jul 19, 2023
Disclosure
Riparbelli: Synthesia never creates avatars without explicit consent
“So we'd never create an avatar of someone without their full actual consent, right?”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 35:46 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
Jul 19, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Synthesia generated $700,000 in annual revenue during its early agency services phase
“I think we did like 700,000 dollars of revenue on that in a year.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 8:30 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
Jul 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Riparbelli: Synthesia has over 50,000 customers and 35% of Fortune 100
“Now we run the world's biggest AI video platform. More than 50,000 customers work with more than 35% of four to 100.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 5:55 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
Jul 19, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Synthesia uses third-party LLM providers for scriptwriting rather than in-house models
“We use lots of LLM providers. Now, for example, we have a script writing functionality, right? Where you can just type in the topic of your video will help you write the script. That's not technology we've developed from the ground up.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 17:06 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
Jul 19, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Riparbelli: Synthesia next-gen avatars will unlock marketing video use cases in 2023
“I think before the end of the year as we roll out the next generation for avatar technology, we'll start to see even more marketing sales and those types of use cases emerge as well.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 15:26 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
Jul 19, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Synthesia reached a $1B valuation in Series C led by Accel
“Synthezia just became a unicorn, which is much rarer these days, even in AI. Reaching a billion dollar evaluation in a series C round of financing that literally just closed and that was led by our friends at Excel.”
Matt Turck Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 0:50 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
Jul 19, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Riparbelli: Synthesia only trains models on clean, compliant data
“We've kind of decided to take a route where we only train on clean, compliant data as other companies were not doing that.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 32:46 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
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