Best Video Creation Tools Companies in New York, United States
The 72 best Video Creation Tools companies in New York, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Runway.
Ranked: Best Video Creation Tools companies in New York
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Runway 🦄 Developer of artificial intelligence tools for image and video generation 87Funding top 14%Tech top 18%Growth top 21%AI top 25% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 14% Techtop 18% Growthtop 21% AItop 25% Moattop 28% Talenttop 28% Producttop 36% Customerstop 41% Markettop 43% Innovationtop 47% Globalbottom 42% Patentsbottom 38% Funding: Raised $237M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 8 yrs (0.9/yr) Tech: 54 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 87/100 | $237M | 4 mo ago | Series E | 30 | Anastasis Germanidis Co-Founder & Co-CEO | Top 50k | 6 patents AI-powered real-time geolocation and location-based service platform | 5 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 2 | Fotolia Royalty-free stock photo marketplace platform | $225M | 141 mo ago | Acquired | 15 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Mirage AI platform for generating, editing, and captioning videos automatically 69AI top 20%Funding top 25%Customers top 31%Tech top 36% All 11 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 25% Customerstop 31% Techtop 36% Producttop 36% Moattop 37% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 41% Globalbottom 44% Marketbottom 40% Patentsbottom 38% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $160M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 5 yrs (0.6/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $160M | 3 mo ago | Series D | — | Dwight Churchill Co-Founder & COO | Top 5M | 16 patents Free‑space volumetric imaging and variable‑focus optical projection systems | — |
| 4 | Frame.io Media collaboration solutions provider | $92M | 60 mo ago | Acquired | 286 | — | Top 50k | 6 patents Digital vehicle license plate displays and electronic display control hardware | 4 launchs |
| 5 | SundaySky Provider of an enterprise video platform for personalized customer engagement | $67M | 120 mo ago | Acquired | — | Marc Zionts CEO | Top 5M | — | — |
| 6 | Pond5 Royalty-free stock media marketplace | $62M | 143 mo ago | Acquired | 335 | — | Top 5M | 11 patents Cloud-based video editing and image search/retrieval services for digital media platforms. | — |
| 7 | Flora Developer of a platform providing creative artificial intelligence tools and workflows | $48M | 4 mo ago | Series A | — | Weber Wong Co-Founder | Top 500k | 7 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | — |
| 8 | Air Platform offering software to create and manage content | $42M | 17 mo ago | Series B | 12 | Tyler Strand Co-founder & CTO | Top 500k | 95 patents Catalytic conversion of CO₂/CO to sustainable fuels (diesel, ethanol, olefins) | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 9 | Animoto Cloud-based video editing platform for enterprises | $30M | 179 mo ago | Acquired | 109 | Jason Hsiao Co-Founder | Top 100k | 16 patents Automated video editing and media organization using metadata-driven scene selection | — |
| 10 | Wochit Cloud-based video creation platform for enterprises | $29M | 113 mo ago | Series C | 51 | Dror Ginzberg Co-Founder & CEO | Top 10M | 9 patents AI-driven automated video creation and moderation workflow for multimedia content generation | — |
| 11 | OpenReel Provider of remote video capture and AI-powered video editing platform | $24M | 63 mo ago | Acquired | 14 14 → 15 (+7%) | Lee Firestone Co-Founder & CEO | Top 5M | — | — |
| 12 | Allstar Gaming Online platform for creating and sharing gaming clips | $19M | 36 mo ago | Series A | 42 | Gavin Silver Co-Founder | Top 500k | — | — |
| 13 | Qwiki App-based platform offering video creation solutions | $10M | 182 mo ago | Deadpooled | 8 | — | — | 9 patents Dynamic generation and integration of searchable multimedia content and presentation modules | — |
| 14 | Cartwheel Provider of text-to-animation platform to animate characters for various projects | $6M | 18 mo ago | Series A | — | Andrew Carr Co-Founder | Top 5M | — | — |
| 15 | WIREWAX Cloud-based software tool to create shoppable and interactive videos | $5M | 108 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 9 | — | Top 50M | — | — |
| 16 | Videolicious Develops apps to create videos from their mobile phones | $5M | 119 mo ago | Series A | 2 | — | — | 4 patents Media analytics heat mapping and tagged video insertion for dynamic presentation generation | — |
| 17 | Adventr Developer of an AI-powered interactive video platform | $5M | 29 mo ago | Seed | — | Nathaniel Wilson Founder & CEO | Top 10M | — | — |
| 18 | ShortTok Automated video creation solutions provider | $4M | 13 mo ago | Seed | 15 | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Aug X Labs AI-based content creation platform | $4M | 32 mo ago | Acquired | 6 | Scott Havird Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 20 | Trash Developer of an application that generates rough video cuts using AI | $3M | 76 mo ago | Acquired | 10 | Hannah Donovan Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 21 | Curastory Online platform providing video creation and distribution solutions | $2M | 57 mo ago | Seed | 21 | Tiffany Kelly Founder & CEO | Top 50M | — | — |
| 22 | Storia AI-powered platform for video production | $250K | 24 mo ago | Seed | 2 | Julia Turc Co-Founder & Co-CEO | Top 10M | — | — |
| 23 | CreatorML Provider of online platform for thumbnail creation | $125K | 36 mo ago | Seed | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Texel.ai AI-powered platform offering video creation solutions | $125K | 36 mo ago | Seed | 2 | Rahul Sheth Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 25 | CameraTag Provider of recording and video processing services | $120K | 168 mo ago | Seed | — | Chris Danzig Founder | Top 10M | — | — |
Top 12 Video Creation Tools companies in New York
#1
Runway 🦄Series E · New York City, New York · founded 2018 · 30 employees$237Mraised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence tools for image and video generation. The company provides tools for video editing, image manipulation, and content creation. It offers applications for tasks such as removing elements from video, changing image styles, and transforming backgrounds. The business also allows users to build custom workflows.
- Feb 2026Series E$315M
- Apr 2025Series D$308M
- Jun 2023Series C$141M
- Dec 2022Series C$50M
#2
Series D · New York, New York · founded 2021$160Mraised▾
AI platform for generating, editing, and captioning videos automatically. It enables users and businesses to generate, edit, and enhance videos using foundation models. It provides automated captioning, AI-generated footage, avatars, and APIs for scalable video production and content workflows. It allows users to create and edit videos from scratch using AI. The platform is designed for marketing and creative teams to scale video production.
- Mar 2026Series D$75M
- Jul 2024Series C$60M
- Jun 2023Series B$25M
- 2022Series A—
#3
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2024$48.5Mraised▾
Developer of a platform providing creative artificial intelligence tools and workflows. The platform offers tools for visual effects, fashion, advertising, photography, concepting, branding, motion graphics, and architecture. It facilitates the generation of consistent assets and scalable workflows. The platform provides access to various text, image, and video models.
- Jan 2026Series A$42M
- May 2025Seed$6.5M
#4
Series B · Brooklyn, New York · founded 2017 · 12 employees$41.8Mraised▾
Platform offering software to create and manage content. The platform offers software that enables members to manage content and unlocks creativity through image recognition, automated versioning, and approval workflows. It helps to manage and organize marketing assets or collaterals. It has clients such as Italic, Pattern, Lemonade, etc.
- Jan 2025Series B$35M
- Sep 2023Series A$7.5M
- Jan 2022Series A$10M
- Sep 2020Series A$12M
#5
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2021 · 15 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Automated video creation solutions provider. It has developed a technology to create a highlights video from long-form videos.
- May 2025Seed$2.5M
- Dec 2023Conventional Debt$1M
- Sep 2022Conventional Debt$945K
#6
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2023$5.6Mraised▾
Provider of text-to-animation platform to animate characters for various projects. It enables users to generate editable animations using a large motion model, streamlining the animation process for creative storytellers. The platform caters to a variety of projects including videos, games, movies, ads, social media, and VR.
- Dec 2024Series A$10M
- Jun 2024Seed$5.6M
#7
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2014 · 286 employees$92Mraised▾
Frame.io provides audio, video, and photo collaboration solutions that allow users to upload, review, and share with vendors, clients, and offsite team members. It also provides an annotation tool for users to get work in progress notes and track change as well as to upload dailies. It also provides feedback, track activities from other users, and version control for the file uploads. The mobile app is available for iOS devices. Generates revenue through subscriptions.
- Jun 2021Series C$8M
- Nov 2019Series C$50M
- Oct 2017Series B$20M
- Sep 2016Series A$11.8M
#8
Series A · New York City, New York · founded 2019 · 42 employees$19Mraised▾
Online platform for creating and sharing gaming clips. The platform allows users to capture clips from games like CS-GO, Fortnite, League of Legends, Rainbow 6, and Valorant. Users can like posts and follow various creators on the platform.
- Jun 2023Series A$14.7M
- May 2021Seed$3.9M
- Dec 2019Seed$425K
#9
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2004 · 15 employees$225.2Mraised▾
Royalty-free stock photo marketplace platform. It offers photos, vector graphics, and videos. Photographs are offered for free and at a price. Photographers receive a commission for each image licensed via Fotolia.
- Sep 2014PE$200K
- Jan 2014Grant (prize money)—
- May 2012PE$150M
- May 2009PE$75M
#10
Seed · New York City, New York · founded 2019$5Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-powered interactive video platform. It enables the creation, distribution, and monetization of content, including games and voice-controlled experiences. It offers tools for building branching narratives, personalized videos, and multiplayer experiences, all without requiring coding expertise. The platform integrates with various SDKs and APIs for seamless integration across different devices and platforms. Monetization options include embedding interactive content on websites and apps or distributing through its app. It is designed for use across multiple industries, including entertainment, education, and marketing.
- Jan 2024Seed$8M
- Dec 2021Seed$5M
#11
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2007$67.1Mraised▾
Provider of an enterprise video platform for personalized customer engagement. The platform facilitates video creation, editing, and sharing to drive business growth. It offers features such as video creation, personalization, AI avatars, and real-time video rendering. The platform supports customer experience, marketing, learning, sales, and field enablement teams.
- Jun 2016Series D$30M
- Oct 2013Series C$20M
- Jan 2011Series B$9.1M
- Jan 2009Series A$8M
#12
Acquired · New York City, New York · founded 2021 · 6 employees$4.1Mraised▾
AI-based content creation platform. It enables users to upload audio or video recordings and download finished video files. It also enables content creators of all kinds like podcasters, radio hosts, comedians, musicians, and more to promote their videos.
- Sep 2023Series A$3.1M
- Nov 2022Seed$1M
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