Approximately a month later Valley de LunaA startup based in Los Angeles that develops AI tools for video creation, said he said $ 43 million in new fundsThe company has raised more, according to a presentation With the SEC.
The presentation, presented on Thursday, reveals that MoonValley really landed (so far) around $ 53 million in total of a group of unidentified investors.
The presentation indicates that it is an additional $ 10 million in cash, instead of a completely new round. Brings the total company to approximately $ 124 million, Estima pitchbookFollowing MoonValley’s heels $ 70 million seed round last November. MoonValley declined to comment.
The wide availability of tools to build video generators has led to such explosion of suppliers that the space is saturating. Startups like Clue, LIGHTRTCHSGenmo, Pika, HiggsfieldKling, and Lumaas well as technological giants such as OpadaiAlibaba, and GoogleThey are launching models to a fast clip. In many cases, little distinguishes a model from another.
MoonValley’s Marey model, built in collaboration with a New AI animation study Called Asteria, offers customization options such as fine grain chambers and movement controls, and can generate “HD” clips up to 30 seconds long. MoonValley states that it is also a lower risk than other models of video generation from a legal perspective.
But where MoonValley tries to differentiate himself, hence the high interest of VC, is in the data he is using to train his models, as well as the safeguards in his video creation tools.
Many generative video startups train models in public data, some of which invariably have copyright. These companies argue that fair The doctrine protects practice, but that has not stopped the rights holders to file complaints and present the cessation and give them up.
MoonValley says he is working with the partners to handle license arrangements and packaging videos in data sets that the company then buys. The approach is similar to Bria and AdobeThe last of which acquires content for the training of creators through its patented adobe stock platform.
MoonValley is also creating an interface for his model. The company’s software, which has not yet publicly planned, has graphic and “graphic” script adjustment tools “, MoonValley co -founders revealed in Recent interviews. Marey can generate videos not only from text indications but also sketches, photos and other video clips, claims Luna valueAND.
Naeem Talukdar, who previously directed the growth of products in Zapier, founded Moonvalley with former Deepmind Mateusz Malinowski and Mik Binkowski scientists. John Thomas joined as MoonValley’s director of Operations: he and Talukdar had founded another startup, Draft, several years ago. MoonValley also has the head of Asteria Bryn Mooser as co -founder.
Many artists and creators distrust video generators, since they threaten to fly the film and television industry. A 2024 study Commissioner by the Animation Guild, a union that represents Hollywood animators and cartoonists, estimates that more than 100,000 film, television and animation works based in the United States will be interrupted by AI by 2026.
MoonValley intends to allow creators to request that their content be eliminated from their models, allow customers to eliminate their data at any time and offer a compensation policy to protect their users from copyright challenges.
Unlike some video models “without filter” that easily insert the similarity of a person into the clips, MoonValley also undertakes to build railings around their tools. Like OpenAi Sora, MoonValley’s models will block some content, NSFW phrases, and will not allow users to ask them to generate videos of specific people or celebrities.
“We found MoonValley to make a generative video technology that works for filmmakers and creative professionals,” MoonValley wrote in a Blog In March. “That means addressing fear and distrust, as well as solving technical problems that prevent generative AI being a realistic tool for professional production.”