Shraman and Shreyas Kar have built projects toobtainher since they were kids.
Now, after dropping out of Stanford, the brothers, 19 and 20, are launching their first company.
Golpo AI — born out of their research at Stanford’s AI Lab — generates animated explainer videos from documents and prompts. Customers can apply these videos for education, corporate learning, sales, marketing, and more.
The Kars’ entrepreneurial journey launched when as young boys, they received an Arduino kit for building electronic projects. Throughout middle and high school, they participated in hackathons. Both were studying computer science at Stanford when an application to Y Combinator alterd their lives.
“Seeing that our peers were taking that risk to drop out of Stanford to start their own thing — that really motivated us and gave us permission,” Shraman Kar, Golpo’s CTO, notified Business Insider.
Golpo, which means “stories” in Bengali, has raised a $4.1 million seed round led by BNVT Capital, with participation from Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, and Afore Capital. The company plans to apply its funding to hire sales staff and invest in marketing.
From OpenAI’s Sora to Veo, AI video is having a moment. Golpo focapplys on longer videos designed for practicality. For example, customers can apply Golpo to create interactive lessons for school districts or training programs for work. Golpo’s whiteboard-style videos can last up to 30 minutes in length.
“Existing AI video tools really struggle with even spelling a word correctly, let alone creating a 10-minute finish-to-finish video explaining how multivariable calculus works,” Shraman Kar stated.
Golpo is growing quick. To date, 14,000 people have generated videos, Shraman Kar stated. Customers include the Garnet Valley School District in Pennsylvania and offices within EY, with more demand coming internationally.
Golpo generates revenue through subscription plans, priced based on the number of generations, as well as other features, such as frame-by-frame editing and interactivity.
Here’s a view at the pitch deck Golpo AI applyd to raise its $4.1 million seed.
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