Joshua Xu

HeyGen: $500M valuation, 40,000+ business customers, $60M raised

Co-founder and CEO of HeyGen — the AI video platform for creating multilingual talking avatar videos. Used by 40,000+ businesses including Salesforce and Accenture for global content localization. Raised $60M at a $500M valuation.

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AI video platform for multilingual avatar creation. 40K+ business customers.

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Cristóbal Valenzuela@c_valenzuelab

Runway: $5.3B valuation, $860M raised, $315M Series E (Feb 2026)

Co-founder and CEO of Runway — the AI video company powering the next generation of filmmaking. Born in Santiago, Chile. Co-authored the latent diffusion paper that underpinned Stable Diffusion. Inked deals with major Hollywood studios.

Demi Guo@itsdemi

Pika: $470M valuation, $80M raised, 500K+ waitlist at launch

Co-founder and CEO of Pika — the AI video generation platform known for cinematic quality and fast iteration. Former Stanford PhD student who dropped out to build Pika. Raised $80M at a $470M valuation.

Amit Jain@gravicle

Luma AI: $4B+ valuation, $1.07B raised, Dream Machine used by millions

Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI — the AI video and world model company behind Dream Machine. Former Apple Vision Pro engineer. Raised $900M from Humain to build a 2GW compute cluster for next-gen world models.